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Tampico, Washington

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1971. It stands in the Northwest Yakima census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98903. It stands on South Fork Ahtanum Creek. The Survey maps it on the Tampico quadrangle. 467 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,123 feet above sea level.

Tampico within Yakima County

On record in Tampico

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Tampico grew from 312 to 467 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
2010312
2020467+155 (+50%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

32 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Tampico between 1992 and 2020, burning about 392 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Natural3
Arson/incendiarism1
Fireworks1

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
2 September 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersS FORK CAMPFIRE
17 September 2000Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
14 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSOUTH AHTANUM
7 August 2011Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresYakama AgencySOUTH FORK
31 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.1 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersCABIN
26 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.5 acresYakama Agency19320 AHTANUM
23 August 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersNASTY PIT
22 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresYakama AgencyPOISON 2

Every fire recorded in Yakima County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Tampico: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Yakima County

Storms near this place

2 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tampico in 2 storm reports between 2000 and 2017: 1 wildfire, 1 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
February 2017FloodTampico-After a brief warm up on 2/9/2017, an ice jam formed and broke loose on the North Fork of the Ahtanum Creek in central Yakima county. The ice moved downstream damaging five homes with water and structural damage. One family was displaced.
July 2000WildfireTampico-Lightning from evening thunderstorms started a 50 acre fire in state forest land on White's Ridge.

Every storm recorded in Yakima 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
Tietonview Grange9.3 miles15
Gromore9.7 miles15
Elliott Ave11.4 miles15
Wiley City11.6 miles15
Harwood11.7 miles15
Cowiche12.4 miles14
Holtzinger12.5 miles14
Weikel12.6 miles14

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 TampicoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6138570The 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 1526923. 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.