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Tiptonville Tennessee Map

Explore Tiptonville, Tennessee, with this interactive street and satellite map.

This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.

Interactive Map of Tiptonville, Tennessee

How to Use This Tiptonville, Tennessee Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Tiptonville, Tennessee. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Tennessee or beyond.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Tiptonville.

Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.

City	Tiptonville
State	Tennessee (TN)
County	Lake County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	36.376597
Longitude	-89.487716
Population	3,976
Density	571.7 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	38079
Area Code	901
County Seat	Tiptonville
School District	Lake County School District

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About Tiptonville, Tennessee

Tiptonville is a locality in Lake County, Tennessee, United States. It has a population of approximately 3,976. The population density is 571.7 people per km². Tiptonville is located at 36.3766°N, 89.4877°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Tiptonville is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 38079.

Tiptonville holds the quiet, heavy stillness of a place defined by the slow, deliberate work of the earth itself. It lies 20.3 miles west-northwest of Polk, TN (from Polk, TN: bearing 284°T), and is situated 3.7 miles north-northeast of Lake. The landscape around Tiptonville stretches out in wide, alluvial expanses where the horizon remains flat and unencumbered, interrupted only by the distant, hazy silhouette of Sheep Ridge far to the east. The air here feels thick with the moisture of the nearby Reelfoot, where cypress knees rise from the dark water and the light at dusk turns a bruised, metallic purple against the low-hanging clouds. Water defines the perimeter of the geography, with the stillness of Reading House Slough and the sluggish, sediment-heavy path of Old Graveyard Slough marking the boundaries of the fields.

Agriculture remains the pulse of the local economy, with vast, orderly rows of cotton and soy absorbing the heat of the summer sun until the earth seems to shimmer in the afternoon glare. History clings to the soil, marked by the seismic shifts that rearranged the terrain centuries ago, leaving behind the low depression of Island Number Twelve as a reminder of the land's restless nature. Life here moves according to the planting and harvest cycles, a steady, rhythmic labor that has persisted through generations of floods and renewals. The character of the place is forged in this stubborn, grounded endurance, where the people carry a plain-spoken resilience shaped by the isolation of the basin and the persistent, quiet presence of the surrounding wetlands.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Caboose (Attraction) — 1.2 mi, 095° E
Reelfoot (State Park) — 2.2 mi, 076° E
Girvin (J. L.And G.) Conservation Area (State Conservation Area) — 2.2 mi, 247° SW
Reelfoot Lake (State Conservation Area) — 2.3 mi, 074° E
Battle of Island 10 (Monument) — 4.7 mi, 007° N
Lake Isom National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 5.4 mi, 136° SE · 3,626 acres
Reelfoot National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 7.5 mi, 087° E · 16k acres
Lee Morris Memorial (Monument) — 17.2 mi, 169° S
Lenox Bridge Memorial (Monument) — 19.2 mi, 172° S
Big Oak Tree State Park (State Park) — 20.8 mi, 027° NE
Burgess Chapel School (Historic Ruins) — 22.9 mi, 172° S
Abraham Lincoln (Public Artwork) — 23.5 mi, 080° E
The Fear Factory (Attraction) — 24.2 mi, 082° E
Dyer County Historical Society (Museum) — 24.3 mi, 166° S
Cotton Belt Caboose (Attraction) — 28.5 mi, 012° N
Cooter Auxillary Army Airfield (Historic Ruins) — 28.7 mi, 215° SW
Malden Army Airfield Museum (Museum) — 31.9 mi, 299° NW
Jones outdoor Amphitheatre (Theatre) — 33.3 mi, 252° W
Red Devil Stadium (Stadium) — 33.6 mi, 076° E
The Angry Axe (Attraction) — 34.0 mi, 093° E
Malco (Cinema) — 35.1 mi, 352° N
Hemingway-Pfieffer Museum (Museum) — 39.6 mi, 271° W
Pfeiffer Museum (Museum) — 39.7 mi, 271° W
Trenton Teapot Museum (Museum) — 41.1 mi, 132° SE
Big Lake National Wildlife Refuge.Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 44.4 mi, 232° SW · 2,280 acres
Mark Twain National Forest (National Forest) — 54.9 mi, 309° NW · 1.5M acres
Shawnee National Forest (National Forest) — 55.5 mi, 004° N · 274k acres

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