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Ripley
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city in Mississippi, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Mississippi
- County
- Tippah
- Named after
- Eleazer W. Ripley
- Mayor
- Jon Grisham ( R )
- Total
- 11.46 sq mi (29.67 km )
- Land
- 11.43 sq mi (29.60 km )
- Water
- 0.027 sq mi (0.07 km )
- Elevation
- 476 ft (145 m)
- Density
- 477.9/sq mi (184.51/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( Central (CST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 (CDT)
- Fips code
- 28-62600
- Website
- City website
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city in the United States
- Official name
- Ripley
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Tippah County
- Population
- 5462
- Area
- 29.401002
- Elevation
- 152
- Capital of
- Tippah County
- Official website
- www.ripley.ms
- Image
- Tippah County Courthouse, Ripley Historic District, MS.jpg
- Households
- 1781
- Dialing code
- 662
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- postal code
- 38663
- Commons category
- Ripley, Mississippi
- water as percent of area
- 0.3223
- per capita income
- 22912
Sources (7)
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Encyclopedic overview
Ripley is a city in Tippah County, Mississippi, United States. As of the 2020 census, Ripley had a population of 5,462. It is the county seat of Tippah County.
Colonel William Clark Falkner, great-grandfather of authors William Faulkner and John Faulkner, was a prominent resident of Ripley in the mid to late-19th century. W.C. Falkner's exploits in and around Ripley served as the model for Faulkner's character of Colonel John Sartoris.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ripley” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.