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History · Toccopola

32% of Toccopola’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1980 on and the census since 1890.

0on the National Register
32%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Toccopola’s past

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The story

How Toccopola came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Toccopola.

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Toccopola was originally settled by the Chickasaw. In 1840, Tobias and Allison Furr moved to the vicinity of Toccopola from Mecklenburg County, North Carolina and built a water mill and store. After the Civil War, W. B. Gilmer founded Toccopola College. The college closed in 1907 after the Gulf, Mobile and Northern Railroad bypassed Toccopola in favor of Pontotoc, which caused many citizens to leave the community.

In 1900, Toccopola had a population of 249, three churches, a high school, grist mill, and carriage shop.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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On the map

Toccopola on the map, 1980 to 2000

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Toccopola. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Toccopola on the 1980 USGS mapToccopola on the 1990 USGS mapToccopola on the 2000 USGS map1980Thaxton sheet · 1:24,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Toccopola.

People over time

Toccopola, census by census

01002003001900192019401960198020002020Peak: 332

Between 154 and 332 people in every census since 1890.

14 censuses, 1890–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Toccopola’s Wikipedia page.

Famous people

Famous people close to Toccopola

Nobody well known was born in Toccopola itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Elvis PresleyAmerican singer and actor · b. 1935
William FaulknerAmerican writer · b. 1897
DiploAmerican DJ and record producer · b. 1978
Roger WickerAmerican lawyer and politician · b. 1951
Thad CochranUnited States Senator from Mississippi · b. 1937
Glenn HardinAthletics competitor · b. 1910
Places that used to be

Places now gone

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Toccopola High Schoolschool

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.