Tupelo

Also known as Tupelo, Mississippi, Tupelo, MS, Tupelo, Miss.

city in, and the county seat of, Lee County, Mississippi, United States

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Tupelo is a city in Mississippi that serves as the county seat of Lee County. It is notable as an important municipal center in the state.

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Official name: City of Tupelo
Population: 37923
Area: 0.778484
Elevation: 91
Official website: www.tupeloms.gov
Image: Airport in Tupelo, MS.jpg
Households: 15004
Dialing code: 662

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postal code: 38802
Commons category: Tupelo, Mississippi
inception: 1860-10-18
P8168: Stilton
water as percent of area: 0.4636
per capita income: 30463
P12749: Justus Henning Böhmer

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Tupelo (/ˈtuːpəloʊ/ TOO-pə-loh) is a city in and the county seat of Lee County, Mississippi, United States. Founded in 1860, the population was 37,923 at the 2020 census. It is the seventh-most populous city in Mississippi and is considered a commercial, industrial, and cultural hub of northern Mississippi.

Tupelo was incorporated in 1870. The area had earlier been settled as "Gum Pond" along the Mobile and Ohio Railroad. On February 7, 1934, Tupelo became the first city to receive power from the Tennessee Valley Authority, thus giving it the nickname "The First TVA City". Much of the city was devastated by a major tornado in 1936 that still ranks as one of the deadliest tornadoes in American history. Following electrification, Tupelo boomed as a regional manufacturing and distribution center and was once considered a hub of the American furniture manufacturing industry.