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.
Population over time
2 figuresTampa 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 112 | |
| 2020 | 105 | -7 (-6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 18 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1889 USGS Abilene quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Abilene quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1955 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1985 USGS Salina quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Salina quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
13 since 2015Regional 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/undetermined | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2015 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 10 |
| 5 May 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2018013 |
| 6 March 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 29 March 2020 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 21 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | Marion County | 2017006 |
| 20 March 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 acres | Marion County | 2017005 |
| 11 March 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 4 |
| 5 February 2017 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Marion County | 2017002 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
40 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tampa | 1 hurt, $5,000 | County dispatch reported a shed was destroyed and power lines down. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tampa | $150,000 | Numerous 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 2019 | Flash Flood | Tampa | $60,000 | Three water rescues were reported in town along with numerous roads reported under water. |
| March 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tampa | $50,000 | Two 50 foot by 16 foot loafing sheds destroyed. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tampa | $8,000 | A 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 2011 | Hail | Tampa | $1,000 | Windows were broken in a home 6 miles south of Ramona. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tampa | $250 | A trained spotter reported 4 inch diameter tree limbs down. |
| July 2019 | Flood | Tampa | $100 | Several county roads experienced high water due to heavy rainfall. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tampa | - | Tree uprooted a laying across the road in Tampa. |
| June 2024 | Flood | Tampa | - | Water was over the roadway and the roadway was impassible at the intersection of 290th and Nighthawk Road. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tampa | - | A high line electrical transmission line was reported down with estimated gusts of 60 to 70 mph and relayed via dispatch. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tampa | - | Trained spotter estimated wind gusts around 60 mph. |
| April 2022 | Tornado (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 2021 | Heavy Rain | Tampa | - | This was a 24 hour rainfall report of 4.21 inches from Cocorahs station KS-MN-5 Tampa 3.2 ESE. |
| September 2021 | Heavy Rain | Tampa | - | A cocorahs observer reported 3.98 inches. |
| September 2019 | Hail | Tampa | - | Heavy rain was also reported. |
| September 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tampa | - | The public estimated the gust. |
| September 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tampa | - | Small tree branches were also reported down. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tampa | - | Downed 4-inch diameter limbs. |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tampa | - | Four inch diameter limbs downed. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Tampa | - | no account filed |
| September 2023 | Hail | Tampa | - | no account filed |
| March 2012 | Hail | Tampa | - | no account filed |
| October 2011 | Hail | Tampa | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Tampa | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tampa | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Tampa | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Tampa | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Tampa | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tampa | - | no account filed |
| March 2002 | Hail | Tampa | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Tampa | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Tampa | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Tampa | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Tampa | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tampa | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Tampa | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Tampa | - | no account filed |
| September 1998 | Hail | Tampa | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Tampa | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Durham | 5.8 miles | 15 | |
| Ramona | 5.9 miles | 17 | |
| Pilsen | 7.9 miles | 15 | |
| Lost Springs | 10.0 miles | 15 | |
| Lincolnville | 10.9 miles | 12 | |
| Eastshore | 12.2 miles | 15 | |
| Antelope | 12.2 miles | 12 | |
| Waldeck | 12.6 miles | 15 |
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 Tampa | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q937941 | The 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.






