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.
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
St. Joseph's Missionlisted 1976
Population over time
2 figuresTampico 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 312 | |
| 2020 | 467 | +155 (+50%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 14 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.
- 1899 USGS Ellensburg quadrangle1:125000
- 1901 USGS Ellensburg quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1950 USGS Yakima quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Yakima quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Yakima quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Tampico quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
32 since 1992Regional 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 ceremony | 14 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 2013 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | S FORK CAMPFIRE |
| 17 September 2000 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 14 September 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | SOUTH AHTANUM |
| 7 August 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.0 acres | Yakama Agency | SOUTH FORK |
| 31 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.1 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | CABIN |
| 26 August 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.5 acres | Yakama Agency | 19320 AHTANUM |
| 23 August 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | NASTY PIT |
| 22 August 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Yakama Agency | POISON 2 |
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
2 since 2000Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2017 | Flood | Tampico | - | 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 2000 | Wildfire | Tampico | - | Lightning from evening thunderstorms started a 50 acre fire in state forest land on White's Ridge. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tietonview Grange | 9.3 miles | 15 | |
| Gromore | 9.7 miles | 15 | |
| Elliott Ave | 11.4 miles | 15 | |
| Wiley City | 11.6 miles | 15 | |
| Harwood | 11.7 miles | 15 | |
| Cowiche | 12.4 miles | 14 | |
| Holtzinger | 12.5 miles | 14 | |
| Weikel | 12.6 miles | 14 |
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 Tampico | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6138570 | 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 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.





