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Tupman, California

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the West Kern census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93276. The Survey maps it on the Tupman quadrangle. 177 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 331 feet above sea level.

Tupman within Kern County

Then and now

1910 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 71 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Tupman, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Tupman, surveyed 1910

Population over time

2 figures

Tupman grew from 161 to 177 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010161
2020177+16 (+10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 26 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

33 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Tupman between 1995 and 2020, burning about 1,374 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Equipment and vehicle use6
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
23 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral California DistrictUNNAMED FIRE 0262
17 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresCentral California DistrictUNNAMED FIRE 0319
12 September 2002Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreCentral California DistrictUNNAMED FIRE 0035
9 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral California DistrictSHORT
8 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresCentral California DistrictELK HILLS
30 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.7 acresCentral California DistrictCOURSE 2
30 August 1999Equipment and vehicle use700 acresCentral California DistrictTWO
9 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral California DistrictUNNAMED FIRE 0214

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kern County

Storms near this place

5 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tupman in 5 storm reports between 2010 and 2023: 2 flood, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2017Thunderstorm WindTupman$50,000California Highway Patrol reported downed power poles and power lines near Interstate 5 just south of Stockdale Highway 1SE of Buttonwillow. The downed power lines caused brush fires.
August 2023Flash FloodTupman-California Highway Patrol reported the intersection of SR 43 and Panama Lane was completely flooded.
December 2022FloodTupman-California Highway Patrol reported a small mudslide blocking the southbound lane of Tupman Road north of SR 119.
October 2021FloodTupman-California Highway Patrol reported roadway flooding on Panama Lane 5 miles east of the SR 43 intersection.
February 2010Tornado (EF0)Tupman-A trained weather spotter reported a weak tornado that lasted about 3 minutes. The location was 15 miles northeast of Taft. No damage was found in the area. The tornado was rated an EF0.

Every storm recorded in Kern County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Dustin Acres5.8 miles24
Valley Acres7.0 miles24
Strand (historical)7.5 miles28
Rio Bravo7.6 miles27
Bowerbank7.6 miles25
Stebbins7.7 miles27
Calders Corner7.9 miles27
Stevens8.6 miles28

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on TupmanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1855805The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1661588. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.