Tippo is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a region that is not governed by a local municipal corporation. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. Most other countries of the world either have ...

located in

Tallahatchie County Tallahatchie County is a county in the U.S. state of Mississippi. At the 2020 census, the population was 12,715. Its county seats are Charleston and Sumner. Tallahatchie County is located in the Mississippi Delta region, divided by the Tall ...

Mississippi Mississippi () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States, bordered to the north by Tennessee; to the east by Alabama; to the south by the Gulf of Mexico; to the southwest by Louisiana; and to the northwest by Arkansas. Miss ...

, United States, located approximately from

Swan Lake ''Swan Lake'' ( rus, Лебеди́ное о́зеро, r=Lebedínoye ózero, p=lʲɪbʲɪˈdʲinəjə ˈozʲɪrə, link=no ), Op. 20, is a ballet composed by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1875–76. Despite its initial failur ...

; northeast of Glendora; and approximately from Charleston. Tippo is located at the intersection of Tippo and Sharkey roads. Tippo has a post office with ZIP code 38962. The community is named after

Tippo Bayou Tippo Bayou is a stream in the U.S. state of Mississippi. Opinions are divided whether this creek is named after the Ibitoupa Indian tribe, or a name derived from the Choctaw language The Choctaw language (Choctaw: ), spoken by the Choctaw, an ...

Education

Tippo is in the

East Tallahatchie School District The East Tallahatchie School District (ETSD) is a public school district based in Charleston, Mississippi (USA). In addition to Charleston it serves Tippo. History For much of the county's history, public education was only for white students. ...

. Charleston High School is the area high school.

Coahoma Community College Coahoma Community College (CCC) is a public historically black community college in Coahoma County, Mississippi. The college was founded in 1949 and is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges. It offe ...

is the designated community college.

Notable person

Mose Allison Mose John Allison Jr. (November 11, 1927 – November 15, 2016) was an American jazz and blues pianist, singer, and songwriter. He became notable for playing a unique mix of blues and modern jazz, both singing and playing piano. After moving to N ...

Blues music Blues is a music genre and musical form which originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the Afr ...

ian

Gallery

File:TippoMSPostOffice.jpg, Tippo Post Office File:TippoVolunteerFireDept.jpg, Tippo Volunteer Fire Department File:TippoUnitedMethodistChurch.jpg, Tippo United Methodist Church File:MoseAllisonBluesTrailMarker.jpg,

Mississippi Blues Trail The Mississippi Blues Trail was created by the Mississippi Blues Commission in 2006 to place interpretive markers at the most notable historical sites related to the birth, growth, and influence of the blues throughout (and in some cases beyond) t ...

marker for Mose Allison

References

Unincorporated communities in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi Unincorporated communities in Mississippi Mississippi placenames of Native American origin {{TallahatchieCountyMS-geo-stub