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Tipton County, Tennessee

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14historic places

—earliest paper

1823formed

60,970pop. 2020

45cemeteries

1CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 14 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1977. Most listings are in or near Covington, Mason, Charleston.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

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National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

10 of 14 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

14 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Bozo's Hot Pit Bar-B-Q	Mason	Building	2018
Canaan Baptist Church	Covington	Building	1999
Charleston United Methodist Church and Cemetery	Charleston	Building	2002
Coca-Cola Bottling Plant	Covington	Building	1997
Hotel Lindo	Covington	Building	1982
Mt. Carmel Presbyterian Church	Covington	Building	1984
Oak Hill Farm	Stanton	District	2013
Rhodes House	Brighton	Building	1980
Ruffin Theater	Covington	Building	1992
South College Street Historic District	Covington	District	1997
South Main Street Historic District	Covington	District	1992
St. Matthew's Episcopal Church (Additional Documentation)	Covington	Building	1977
Trinity Church	Mason	Building	1984
Trinity Episcopal Church, Old	Mason	Building	1997

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Tipton was formed in 1823 (1823-10-29) from unknown / original county.

TIPTON created from part of Non-County Area 13 attached to SHELBY.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Tipton County population from 1830 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1830	1840	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
5,317	6,800	10,705	21,033	29,273	30,258	28,036	29,782	28,564	32,930	51,271	60,970

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

45 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 45 of 45 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Adams Cemetery	35.45523	-89.83582
Avery Cemetery	35.60963	-89.66503
Barrow Cemetery	35.46396	-90.08687
Beech Chapel Cemetery	35.4523	-89.5184
Bethel Cemetery	35.40758	-89.79758
Campground Cemetery	35.49703	-89.85371
Cedar Hill Cemetery	35.42053	-89.54043
Charleston Cemetery	35.49535	-89.51035
Clopton Cemetery	35.44785	-89.66896
Cotton Cemetery	35.52507	-89.53285
Covington Memorial Gardens	35.5298	-89.62924
Crigger Cemetery	35.45196	-89.80946
Dickens Community Cemetery	35.55672	-89.85426
Ebenezer Cemetery	35.41254	-89.61887
Galilee Cemetery	35.39929	-89.69324
Garden of Everlasting Life Cemetery	35.62876	-89.61471
Indian Creek Cemetery	35.52167	-89.74179
Leighs Chapel Cemetery	35.61038	-89.66685
Malone Cemetery	35.44369	-89.60563
Morrison Cemetery	35.49091	-89.71341
Mount Lebanon Cemetery	35.60603	-89.70638
Old Randolph Cemetery	35.5235	-89.88543
Pipkins Cemetery	35.41237	-89.51472
Poplar Grove Cemetery	35.46163	-89.91223
Porter Cemetery	35.41203	-89.51506
Quito Memorial Cemetery	35.40174	-89.92703
Randolph Cemetery	35.52186	-89.87877
Ravenscroft Cemetery	35.50776	-89.82193
Robinson Cemetery	35.41394	-89.59433
Saint Johns Cemetery	35.43502	-89.75878
Saint Marks Cemetery	35.41251	-89.90956
Saint Matthews Cemetery	35.49702	-89.51368
Saint Paul Cemetery	35.43397	-89.54313
Salem Cemetery	35.47896	-89.56257
Scrub Oak Cemetery	35.44674	-89.49951
Sharps Cemetery	35.50924	-89.58202
Shiloh Cemetery	35.58407	-89.73572
Smyrna Cemetery	35.56075	-89.77757
Tipton Cemetery	35.5548	-89.61118
Townsend Cemetery	35.58932	-89.63343
Trinity Cemetery	35.45591	-89.5184
Union Grove Cemetery	35.50702	-89.82536
Union Hill Baptist Church Cemetery	35.41416	-89.86081
Walton Cemetery	35.55519	-89.73369
Williams Cemetery	35.51869	-89.88702

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Civil War battlefields nearby

ABPP

American Battlefield Protection Program (ABPP) Civil War study areas near this county.

Battlefield	Study acres	Dist.	Site ID
Fort Pillow	1,294	17.7 km	TN030

Source: NPS American Battlefield Protection Program Civil War Study Areas (public ArcGIS feature service).

Historical markers

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