Lake Tapawingo, Missouri
23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Sni-A-Bar Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64015. The Survey maps it on the Blue Springs quadrangle. 794 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 850 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresLake Tapawingo grew from 730 to 794 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 | 730 | |
| 2020 | 794 | +64 (+9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 23 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.
- 1894 USGS Independence quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1933 USGS Blue Springs quadrangle1:24000
- 1945 USGS Blue Springs quadrangle1:24000
- 1947 USGS Blue Springs quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1965 USGS Blue Springs quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1983 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Blue Springs quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
6,834 words on this townshipThe History of Jackson County, Missouri, Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, Etc., Biographical Sketches of Its Citizens, Jackson County in the Late War... History of Missouri, Map of Jackson County .., published 1881 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Sni-A-Bar Township covers geographical position and population, the name, physical features, early settlers, bltie springs, churches.
Read the chapter on Sni-A-Bar Township - 6,834 words.
Fires near this place
3 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Lake Tapawingo between 2007 and 2011, burning about 2 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/undetermined | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 September 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 1 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 15 November 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.2 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 21 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Lake Tapawingo: 19 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown-S&G | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown-S&G | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown-S&G | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Pink Hill Mine & Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Rock Acres Mine & Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Unknown-Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown-Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown-Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown-Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown-Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
18 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake Tapawingo in 18 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 11 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Tapawingo | - | Three inch tree branches down near Interstate 70 and Little Blue Parkway. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Tapawingo | - | Several large trees and limbs downed in the Lake Tapawingo area. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Tapawingo | - | Private weather sensor measured a 72 mph wind gust in Lake Tapawingo. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Tapawingo | - | Peak gust of 81 mph measured from personal weather station just north of Independence Center. |
| June 2020 | Tornado (EF0) | Lake Tapawingo | - | A strong QLCS came through the Kansas City metro during the early morning hours on June 4. This QLCS produced a brief tornado in the Lake Lotawana area. The damage from this QLCS mesovortex tornado was minor. |
| February 2017 | Hail | Lake Tapawingo | - | This report came from I-70 and Woods Chapel Road in Blue Springs. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Tapawingo | - | A 4-6 inch Oak tree limb broke. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Tapawingo | - | A 6 inch tree limb was down. |
| May 2016 | Hail | Lake Tapawingo | - | This report was gathered via social media. |
| May 2016 | Hail | Lake Tapawingo | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Lake Tapawingo | - | no account filed |
| March 2014 | Hail | Lake Tapawingo | - | no account filed |
| March 2014 | Hail | Lake Tapawingo | - | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | Lake Tapawingo | - | no account filed |
| April 2013 | Hail | Lake Tapawingo | - | no account filed |
| September 2010 | Hail | Lake Tapawingo | - | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Hail | Lake Tapawingo | - | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Hail | Lake Tapawingo | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Springs | 1.6 miles | 23 | |
| Selsa | 2.6 miles | 23 | |
| Adams | 5.0 miles | 23 | |
| East Independence | 5.6 miles | 23 | |
| Little Blue | 5.7 miles | 24 | |
| Grain Valley | 6.0 miles | 21 | |
| Pink Hill | 6.4 miles | 21 | |
| Unity Village | 6.8 miles | 24 |
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 Lake Tapawingo | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q968989 | 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 755426. 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.










