Tupelo, Arkansas
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Breckenridge Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72169. The Survey maps it on the Tupelo quadrangle. 70 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 217 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresTupelo fell from 180 to 70 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 | 180 | |
| 2020 | 70 | -110 (-61%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1940 USGS Tilton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Tilton quadrangle1:62500
- 1980 USGS Tupelo quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Searcy quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
12 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Tupelo between 1992 and 2016, burning about 103 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 26 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 13 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 August 1999 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 July 2016 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 1 July 1992 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Central Arkansas Refuges Complex | BLACK |
| 8 June 2000 | Smoking | 8.9 acres | Central Arkansas Refuges Complex | STUCKEY |
| 7 June 2010 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 1 March 2006 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
11 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tupelo in 11 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tupelo | $25,000 | Trees and many large limbs were blown down. |
| December 2021 | Tornado (EF2) | Tupelo | $10,000 | This tornado continued in Jackson County from Woodruff County. A storm chaser reported tree damage north of Weldon on Hwy. 17. Numerous power lines were blown down near Hwy. 17 and 33 close to the Woodruff County line. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tupelo | $10,000 | A tree was blown down, large limbs littered roads, and limbs were hanging from power lines. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tupelo | $10,000 | Large limbs were blown down. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tupelo | $2,000 | Large tree limbs were blown down in the area. |
| August 2015 | Flash Flood | Tupelo | - | Water covered highway 33 southwest of Tupelo. |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tupelo | - | Thunderstorm winds knocked down some large tree limbs and damaged the roof of an old building. |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tupelo | - | Thunderstorm winds downed some large limbs and damaged the roofs of two buildings in Tupelo. |
| April 2002 | Hail | Tupelo | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Tupelo | - | no account filed |
| April 1998 | Hail | Tupelo | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weldon | 3.6 miles | 10 | |
| Gourd Neck | 4.9 miles | 10 | |
| Shoffner | 5.4 miles | 10 | |
| Spriggs Mill | 6.3 miles | 11 | |
| Bengel | 6.4 miles | 11 | |
| Beedeville | 6.9 miles | 10 | |
| Blackville | 7.1 miles | 10 | |
| Eightmile (historical) | 7.3 miles | 10 |
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 Tupelo | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2593606 | 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 58766. 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.
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.





