The Memphis Metropolitan Statistical Area ( MSA ), the 42nd largest in the United States, has a 2010 population of 1, 316, 100 and includes the Tennessee counties of Shelby, Tipton, and Fayette, as well as the Mississippi counties of DeSoto, Marshall, Tate, and Tunica, and Crittenden County, Arkansas.

* Tipton County ( east )

Tipton County is a county located on the western end of the U. S. state of Tennessee.

Tipton County is part of the Memphis, TN – MS – AR Metropolitan Statistical Area, centered on Shelby County, which borders Tipton on the south.

The major north-south route, U. S. Highway 51, bisects Tipton County into a western half and eastern half, and passes through Covington.

The western boundary of Tipton County is the Mississippi River, where Tennessee meets Arkansas ; however, in several places where the river's course was altered by the 1812 New Madrid earthquake, the boundary still follows the old alignment of the river, with the result that a few of Tipton County's communities — including Reverie and Corona — are exclaved on the Arkansas side, rather than the Tennessee side, of the river.

Tipton County is situated on the southeastern edge of the New Madrid Seismic Zone, an area with a high earthquake risk.

They inhabited the region of modern day Tipton County during the time of first contact with Europeans, at the arrival of the de Soto Expedition.

Due to topographic changes caused by the New Madrid earthquakes in 1811 and 1812, part of what is now Tipton County was cut off the state of Tennessee by a change in the course of the Mississippi River.

This puts Reverie on the Arkansas side, while most of the area of Tipton County is located east of the Mississippi River, the Tennessee side.

The county was named for Jacob Tipton, father of Armistead Blevins, who supervised the organization of Shelby County.

Early Mississippi River steamboat commerce flourished in Tipton County.

In 1830, the community of Randolph, one of the earliest settlements in Tipton County, was the most important shipping point in Tennessee and an early rival of Memphis over commercial supremacy, but the fortunes declined in later years.

The first rail service in Tipton County was established in December 1855, when the Memphis and Ohio Railroad completed the route from Memphis to Nashville, running through what is now Mason.

* Tipton County ( north )

The land which is now Columbus was bought by General John Tipton and Luke Bonesteel in 1820.

The town was known as Tiptonia, named in honor of General Tipton.

General Tipton was upset by the name change and decided to leave the newly founded town.

It was recorded for years in the local history books that the land on which Columbus sits was donated by General Tipton ; however, a deed purporting to show a sale of the land was acquired in 2003 by Historic Columbus Indiana.

In 1282, Llywelyn was killed during Edward I of England's invasion of Wales, possibly by Sir Anthony de Tipton, who was knighted by the King of England afterward, and although his brother Dafydd ap Gruffudd succeeded to the Welsh princeship, issuing documents as prince, his principate was not recognised by the English Crown.

Born Margaret MacDonald, at Tipton, near Wolverhampton, her father was a colliery manager and engineer.

Tipton was killed by Native Americans in 1791 in a conflict over the Northwest Territory.

In 1840, the City of Tipton, the current county seat, was established.

Prior to the arrival of non-indigenous settlers in the 1830s, the area now known as Tipton County was inhabited by the Miami and Delaware tribes.

Tipton County was formed in 1844.

It was named for John Tipton, a soldier of the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811.

The first Tipton County courthouse was a two-story frame building.

He had taken over the Indiana Statehouse project when architect Edwin May died in 1880 ; five years after the completion of that project in 1888, Scherrer began work on the Tipton building, which was built of sandstone in a Romanesque style with a clock tower that rises 206 feet above the ground, including the flagstaff on top.

The first rail service in Tipton County was established in December 1855, when the Memphis and Ohio Railroad completed the route from Memphis to Nashville, running through what is now the town of Mason.

Tipton was one of the key towns in the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century, and even during the 18th century it had established its first key industries.

* Tipton Family Church was established in November 1992.

Tipton Christian Church was established around 70years ago and today is a very lively Penticostal Church situated in Waterloo Street Tipton.

In 1780 Keir, in conjunction with Alexander Blair ( then retired from the army ), established a chemical works at Tipton, near Dudley, for the manufacture of alkali from the sulfates of potash and soda, to which he afterwards added a soap manufactory.

About 1794, Keir and Blair purchased land in the Tividale area, on the borders of Dudley and Tipton, on which they established the Tividale colliery.

General Tipton built a log cabin on Mt.

* London Tipton, character in Suite Life of Zack and Cody and Suite Life on Deck

The site of the county seat was chosen on February 15, 1821 by a team of commissioners, who suggested the name Tiptona, in honor of John Tipton ; on March 20, the name Columbus was adopted.

The first run went from Tipton to San Francisco on September 16 to October 10, 1858.

No court was held from May 22, 1861 until after the war, when on June 19, 1865, when Tipton O.

Tipton lies on the northern portion of the Tillman Terrace Aquifer, an alluvial aquifer in western Tillman County, associated with the southern extent of the North Fork of the Red River.

The town finally settled on the name " Greenback ," which was inspired by a local politician and member of the Greenback Party named Jonathan Tipton.

During his time on the County Commission, Tipton County was named by the Progressive Farmer Magazine as the Third Safest Rural Community in America.

At Brighton the veterans reunion took on new dimensions and it grew into a reunion of all Confederate veterans of Tipton County and the surrounding region.

During 1964 Tipton invested his life savings-$ 2500-to finance the recording of four Nilsson songs, which he arranged ; they were able to sell the completed recordings to the Tower label, a recently-established subsidiary of Capitol Records, and the tracks were subsequently included on Nilsson's debut album.