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Tampa, Kansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Blaine Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67483. The Survey maps it on the Tampa quadrangle. 105 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,424 feet above sea level.

Tampa within Marion County

Population over time

2 figures

Tampa fell from 112 to 105 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
2010112
2020105-7 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 18 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

13 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Tampa between 2015 and 2020, burning about 135 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined5
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural2

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
7 September 2015Natural1.0 acresKansas Forest Service10
5 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresKansas Forest Service2018013
6 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
29 March 2020Debris and open burning10 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
21 March 2017Debris and open burning40 acresMarion County2017006
20 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresMarion County2017005
11 March 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresKansas Forest Service4
5 February 2017Debris and open burning4.0 acresMarion County2017002

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Storms near this place

40 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tampa in 40 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 19 hail, 15 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 2 heavy rain. The reports record 1 injury. 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
August 2010Thunderstorm WindTampa1 hurt, $5,000County dispatch reported a shed was destroyed and power lines down.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindTampa$150,000Numerous reports of wind damage between Tampa, Kansas, and Lost Springs, Kansas. Damage included power poles and five foot diameter trees blown down. Also numerous reports of shed and barn damage.
May 2019Flash FloodTampa$60,000Three water rescues were reported in town along with numerous roads reported under water.
March 2000Thunderstorm WindTampa$50,000Two 50 foot by 16 foot loafing sheds destroyed.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindTampa$8,000A trained spotter reports multiple reports of branches down with limbs up to 12 inches in diameter. A couple of metal buildings are partially fallen over and a transformer pole was down as well.
April 2011HailTampa$1,000Windows were broken in a home 6 miles south of Ramona.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindTampa$250A trained spotter reported 4 inch diameter tree limbs down.
July 2019FloodTampa$100Several county roads experienced high water due to heavy rainfall.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindTampa-Tree uprooted a laying across the road in Tampa.
June 2024FloodTampa-Water was over the roadway and the roadway was impassible at the intersection of 290th and Nighthawk Road.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindTampa-A high line electrical transmission line was reported down with estimated gusts of 60 to 70 mph and relayed via dispatch.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindTampa-Trained spotter estimated wind gusts around 60 mph.
April 2022Tornado (EF1)Tampa-A EF1 moved into Marion County from Dickenson County and traveled over open country before taking a turn to a northeasterly direction. Since we can only use two points for a tornado track, it was plotted from where damage occurred due to the odd track shape. As the tornado tracked north of Tampa a wall was blown in on a well constructed outbuilding and there were snapped trees as well.
May 2021Heavy RainTampa-This was a 24 hour rainfall report of 4.21 inches from Cocorahs station KS-MN-5 Tampa 3.2 ESE.
September 2021Heavy RainTampa-A cocorahs observer reported 3.98 inches.
September 2019HailTampa-Heavy rain was also reported.
September 2015Thunderstorm WindTampa-The public estimated the gust.
September 2015Thunderstorm WindTampa-Small tree branches were also reported down.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindTampa-Downed 4-inch diameter limbs.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindTampa-Four inch diameter limbs downed.
April 2026HailTampa-no account filed
September 2023HailTampa-no account filed
March 2012HailTampa-no account filed
October 2011HailTampa-no account filed
May 2006HailTampa-no account filed
June 2006Thunderstorm WindTampa-no account filed
September 2005HailTampa-no account filed
April 2003HailTampa-no account filed
May 2003HailTampa-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindTampa-no account filed
March 2002HailTampa-no account filed
April 2002HailTampa-no account filed
May 2002HailTampa-no account filed
May 2002HailTampa-no account filed
April 2002HailTampa-no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindTampa-no account filed
June 2001HailTampa-no account filed
June 2001HailTampa-no account filed
September 1998HailTampa-no account filed
July 1997HailTampa-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marion 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
Durham5.8 miles15
Ramona5.9 miles17
Pilsen7.9 miles15
Lost Springs10.0 miles15
Lincolnville10.9 miles12
Eastshore12.2 miles15
Antelope12.2 miles12
Waldeck12.6 miles15

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 TampaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q937941The 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 477122. 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.