Randolph Tennessee Map

About Randolph, Tennessee

Randolph is a locality in Tipton County, Tennessee, United States. It is a small community with a population of 258. The population density is 68.8 people per km². Randolph is located at 35.5165°N, 89.8887°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 38023.

Randolph occupies a quiet stretch of high bluffs overlooking the western edge of the Tennessee landscape where the land drops away toward the water. It lies 8.1 miles north-northwest of Tipton, TN (from Tipton, TN: bearing 331°T), and is situated 8.1 miles northwest of Atoka. The horizon remains wide and open, dominated by the heavy, slow-moving presence of the Mississippi River that defines the western boundary of the woods. Nearby, the stillness of Witherington Lake mirrors the pale sky, while the proximity of the Glen Springs Lake State Forest provides a dense canopy of hardwoods that shifts from deep green to a rusted bronze as the seasons turn. To the east, the low, distant silhouette of Sandy Ridge offers a faint, jagged line against the heat haze of summer afternoons. The air here carries the scent of damp earth and river silt, a reminder that the ground beneath Randolph is part of an ancient, shifting alluvial plain.

Randolph holds the weight of a frontier history, having once served as a bustling center of commerce and river trade before the currents of time and transport shifted elsewhere. The local economy now draws its rhythm from the surrounding fields and the quiet management of the nearby Hatchie Island, a basin that remains largely reclaimed by the wild. Life in Randolph follows the slow, deliberate pace of the rural south, marked by the long shadows cast by the sun over fallow fields and the creak of timber in the wind. Residents find a singular beauty in the way the evening light catches the thick, silty water of the river, turning the surface into a sheet of hammered copper before the dusk settles over the trees. It is a place where the remnants of a more frantic past have been smoothed over by the persistent, unhurried growth of the forest.

About This Randolph Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Randolph, Tennessee. Coordinates: 35.516471, -89.888696. 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 Randolph includes the ZIP code (38023), telephone area code (901), county seat of Tipton County (Covington), and school district assignment (Tipton County School District).

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.