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Tipton County, TN

Tipton County, Tennessee
Tipton County Court House Covington TN 2013-10-13 011.jpg
Tipton County Courthouse in Covington
Map of Tennessee highlighting Tipton County
Location in the U.S. state of Tennessee
Map of the United States highlighting Tennessee
Tennessee's location in the U.S.
Founded Oct. 29, 1823
Named for Jacob Tipton, 18th-century soldier
Seat Covington
Largest city Covington
Area
 • Total 473 sq mi (1,225 km2)
 • Land 458 sq mi (1,186 km2)
 • Water 15 sq mi (39 km2), 3.2%
Population (est.)
 • (2010) 61,870
 • Density 133/sq mi (51/km²)
Congressional district 8th
Time zone Central: UTC-6/-5
Website www.tiptonco.com

Tipton County is a county located on the western end of the U.S. state of Tennessee, in the Mississippi Delta region. As of the 2010 census, the population was 61,081. Its county seat is Covington.

Tipton County is part of the Memphis, TN–MSAR Metropolitan Statistical Area.

From about 10,000 BCE, Paleo-Indians and later Archaic-Indians lived as communities of hunter-gatherers in the area that covers the modern day southern United States. From approximately 800 CE to 1600 CE, the Mississippi Delta was populated by tribes of the Mississippian culture, a mound-building Native American people who had developed in the late Woodland Indian period. While there were chiefdoms and centers along the Mississippi and its tributaries, their major center was at Cahokia, in present-day Illinois east of St. Louis, Missouri.

The Tipton Phase people were a local expression of the Mississippian culture. They still inhabited the region of modern-day Tipton County during the time of first contact with Europeans, at the arrival of the Spanish Hernando de Soto Expedition. By the end of the Mississippian period, the land was claimed and populated by the Chickasaw tribe. The exact origins of the Chickasaw are uncertain.


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