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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.

Tupelo within Jackson County

Population over time

2 figures

Tupelo 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.

YearPeople Change
2010180
202070-110 (-61%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 printed sheets

Matched 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.

Fires near this place

12 since 1992

Regional 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 burning8
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
24 September 1999Debris and open burning26 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2002Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 August 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 July 2016Debris and open burning20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 July 1992Debris and open burning6.0 acresCentral Arkansas Refuges ComplexBLACK
8 June 2000Smoking8.9 acresCentral Arkansas Refuges ComplexSTUCKEY
7 June 2010Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 March 2006Debris and open burning4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

11 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2009Thunderstorm WindTupelo$25,000Trees and many large limbs were blown down.
December 2021Tornado (EF2)Tupelo$10,000This 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 2009Thunderstorm WindTupelo$10,000A tree was blown down, large limbs littered roads, and limbs were hanging from power lines.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindTupelo$10,000Large limbs were blown down.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindTupelo$2,000Large tree limbs were blown down in the area.
August 2015Flash FloodTupelo-Water covered highway 33 southwest of Tupelo.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindTupelo-Thunderstorm winds knocked down some large tree limbs and damaged the roof of an old building.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindTupelo-Thunderstorm winds downed some large limbs and damaged the roofs of two buildings in Tupelo.
April 2002HailTupelo-no account filed
May 1999HailTupelo-no account filed
April 1998HailTupelo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jackson County

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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Weldon3.6 miles10
Gourd Neck4.9 miles10
Shoffner5.4 miles10
Spriggs Mill6.3 miles11
Bengel6.4 miles11
Beedeville6.9 miles10
Blackville7.1 miles10
Eightmile (historical)7.3 miles10

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 TupeloAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2593606The 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.