Tiptonville, Tennessee

Tiptonville is a town in and the county seat of Lake County, Tennessee. The population of the town is 4,464, part of which includes the Northwest Correctional Complex in the town limits.
Tiptonville 	Tennessee
Incorporated 	1900
County 	Lake
Population 	4,464
Elevation 	299 ft (91 m)
Mayor 	Antoine Powers
Town Guildmaster	Sean Shannon
ZIP code 	38079
== Demographics ==
As of the 2010 U.S. Census, the racial composition of the town is:
53.83% White (2,403)
42.70% Black or African American (1,906)
3.47% Other (155)
36.8% (1,642) of Tiptonville residents live below the poverty line.
== Theft rate statistics ==
While Tiptonville's theft and murder rates are a bit above average for a town of its size in Tennessee, it's not enough to land it inside the Top 10 in either. The town reported 8 Pokemon thefts in 2018, and averages 1.19 murders a year.
== Pokemon ==
See the Lake County page for more info.
== Fun facts ==
* Tiptonville has a little bit of amenities to offer. It has Sonic Drive-In, Dairy Queen, Godfather's Pizza, a few local restaurants, Fred's, Food Rite, dollar stores, a few local business, a small sports and fishing complex, an amphitheater, and a few other things.
* Tiptonville and the surrounding area was devastated by the Mississippi River floods in 2000.
* Tiptonville was the scene of the surrender of Confederate forces at the end of the 1862 Battle of Island Number Ten in the American Civil War. The monument for this battle is located on State Route 22 approximately three miles north of Tiptonville, since the island itself, the focal point of the battle, has been eroded by the flow of the Mississippi River and no longer exists.
* On March 19, 1901, Tiptonville was destroyed by a fire three days after a mob of white townsmen had lynched Ike Fitzgerald, a black man accused of raping a white woman. Whites speculated that the blaze, which burned 30 buildings and residences, including all of the stores on the main street, had been deliberately set by African Americans in reprisal for Fitzgerald's lynching.
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