1. A resort city in western Florida; located on Tampa Bay on the Gulf of Mexico.
2. City in Kansas (USA); zip code 67483.
Port and resort on Tampa Bay in W Florida, US; Industries include fruit and vegetable canning, shipbuilding, and the manufacture of fertilizers, clothing, beer, and cigars.
Tampa was settled 1823, and a fort was built the next year that was taken from Confederate forces by Union troops in the Civil War.
The University of South Florida and Busch Gardens are here. Economic growth was spurred in the 1880s by the discovery of phosphates in the area, the arrival of the railroad, and the establishment of a cigar-making industry.