Transcribed from volume II of Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. ... / with a supplementary volume devoted to selected personal history and reminiscence. Standard Pub. Co. Chicago : 1912. 3 v. in 4. : front., ill., ports.; 28 cm. Vols. I-II edited by Frank W. Blackmar.

Tampa, a thriving little town in Marion county, is located in Blaine township on the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific R. R. 20 miles northwest of Marion, the county seat. It has a bank, telegraph and express offices, a money order postoffice with two rural routes, and all lines of mercantile enterprises are represented. The town was incorporated in 1908. The population in 1910, according to the government report, was 256.

Page 796 from volume II of Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. ... / with a supplementary volume devoted to selected personal history and reminiscence. Standard Pub. Co. Chicago : 1912. 3 v. in 4. : front., ill., ports.; 28 cm. Vols. I-II edited by Frank W. Blackmar. Transcribed July 2002 by Carolyn Ward.