Tupelo is a city in and the county seat of Lee County, Mississippi, United States. With an estimated population of 38,300, Tupelo is the sixth-largest city in Mississippi and is considered a commercial, industrial, and cultural hub of North Mississippi.

Tupelo was incorporated in 1866. The Place had earlier been approved as “Gum Pond” along the Mobile and Ohio Railroad. On February 7, 1934, Tupelo became the first city to get power from the Tennessee Valley Authority, thus giving it the nickname “The First TVA City”. Much of the city was devastated by a major tornado in 1936 that yet ranks as one of the deadliest tornadoes in American history. Following electrification, Tupelo boomed as a regional manufacturing and distribution middle and was subsequent to considered a hub of the American furniture manufacturing industry. Although many of Tupelo’s manufacturing industries have declined in the past the 1990s, the city has continued to accumulate due to strong healthcare, retail, and financial abet industries. Tupelo is the smallest city in the United States that is the headquarters of on culmination of one bank past over $10 billion in assets.

Tupelo has a deep membership to Mississippi’s music history, being known as the birthplace of Elvis Presley and Diplo as competently as the origin of the activity Rae Sremmurd. The city is house to compound art and cultural institutions, including the Elvis Presley Birthplace and the 10,000-seat Cadence Bank Arena, the largest multipurpose indoor arena in Mississippi. Tupelo is the isolated city in the Southern United States to be named an All-America City five times, most recently in 2015. Its Main Street program, Downtown Tupelo Main Street Association, was the winner of the national Main Street’s Great American Main Street Award in 2020.

The Tupelo micropolitian Place contains Lee, Itawamba, and Pontotoc counties and had a population of 140,081 in 2017.