Tupper Lake is a village in Franklin County, New York. The population was 3,667 at the 2010 census. The village takes its name from a nearby lake, which, in turn, is the name of a surveyor (Ansel Norton Tupper) who drowned there while fishing. The Village of Tupper Lake is in the Town of Tupper Lake. The town and the village are in the southwest part of the county. Tupper Lake is home to the The Wild Center, a 54,000 square feet natural history center on a 31 acres campus.
