Tupelo Oklahoma Map

About Tupelo, Oklahoma

Tupelo is a locality in Coal County, Oklahoma, United States. It is a small community with a population of 327. The population density is 304.2 people per km². Tupelo is located at 34.6048°N, 96.4242°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Tupelo is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 74572.

Tupelo emerges from the red earth of Oklahoma as a quiet confluence of prairie grass and stubborn, sun-bleached timber. It lies 18.6 miles southeast of Ada, OK (from Ada, OK: bearing 129°T), and is situated 32.9 miles south of Holdenville. The terrain unfolds in broad, rhythmic sweeps of pastureland, where the light at dusk settles in heavy, bruised purples against the horizon, occasionally broken by the distant, jagged silhouette of Big Prairie Ridge. Only a mile away, the Upper Clear Boggy Creek Site 54 Reservoir holds a mirror to the expansive sky, its surface often ruffled by the persistent wind that carries the scent of dry soil and dormant wild onion. Leader Creek carves a shallow, meandering path through the brush two miles from the center, its banks lined with the gnarled, protective embrace of the Cross Timbers that define the local topography.

Tupelo persists as a legacy of the Indian Territory, a place where the history of the Choctaw and other nations remains etched into the slow, deliberate pace of daily life. The economy here moves with the pulse of the land, rooted in agricultural traditions and the persistent industry of a region once defined by the reach of oil derricks. Residents find a particular, rugged solitude in the nearby Pontotoc Ridge Fee, a wildlife area that preserves the native character of the plains, while the deeper geological mysteries of Clear Canyon remain an eleven-mile journey away for those seeking the stark beauty of the basin. Life in Tupelo is measured not by the rush of commerce, but by the subtle shifts in the season and the enduring strength of a landscape that has seen generations come to work the stubborn soil.

About This Tupelo Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Tupelo, Oklahoma. Coordinates: 34.604814, -96.424169. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Tupelo includes the ZIP code (74572), telephone area code (918), county seat of Coal County (Coalgate), and school district assignment (Tupelo Public Schools).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.