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Tipton County is a county located on the western end of the U.S. state of Tennessee . As of 2000, the population was 51,271. Its county seat is Covington . Tipton County is part of the Memphis , TN– MS – AR Metropolitan Statistical Area , centered on Shelby County , which borders Tipton on the south.
Indian cultures The Tipton Phase and some of its associated sites From about 10,000 BCE , Paleo-Indians and later Archaic-Indians lived as communities of hunter-gatherers in the area that covers the modern day southern United States . Approximately 800 CE to 1600 CE, the Mississippi River Delta was populated by tribes of the Mississippian culture , a mound-building Native American people that had developed in the late Woodland Indian period. The Tipton Phase people were a local expression of the Mississippian culture. 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. By the end of the Mississippian period the land was claimed and populated by the Chickasaw tribe . The exact origins of the Chickasaw are uncertain. Around 1800, Europeans began settling the land east of the Mississippi River that was inhabited by the Chickasaw Indians for centuries prior to the arrival of Europeans. Chickasaw land in West Tennessee and southwestern Kentucky was ceded in the Jackson Purchase . In 1818, both sides agreed to the transfer by signing the Treaty of Tuscaloosa. 1811 and 1812 earthquakes 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 .