Do you know of East Tupelo ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about East Tupelo. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with East Tupelo.

Our sources for East Tupelo (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of East Tupelo other than they indicate that East Tupelo would be found somewhere in Lee County, Mississippi.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1944 and closed  in 1958.

This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.

Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for East Tupelo ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about East Tupelo:

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

Shell Oil Road Map for Mississippi (1956)
Published by Shell Oil Company

The FIPS database contains an entry for East Tupelo.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 28/21220   (Place Name: East Tupelo)

County: Lee     (FIPS State/County: 28/081)

Class: U4

Identifies a populated place (ie- East Tupelo) which is wholly or substantially located within the boundaries of an incorporated place with a different name. The Part of Code identifies the incorporated place.

More Orphans in  Lee County ...

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As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Lee County.