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Coppinville, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Enterprise census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36330. It stands on Little Cowpen Creek. The Survey maps it on the Enterprise quadrangle.

Coppinville within Coffee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

22 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Coppinville between 1994 and 2017, burning about 127 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
19 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 July 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
10 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined18 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionCR 167, AL
31 May 2001Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 May 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission1401 NORTH MAIN ST, AL
25 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 May 1994Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coffee County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Coppinville: 2 occurrences, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnnamedIronUnknown
Unnamed DepositIronOccurrence
Unnamed DepositIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Coffee County

Storms near this place

4 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coppinville in 4 storm reports between 2015 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2024Thunderstorm WindCoppinville$2,000A power line was blown down on Whispering Pines Dr between Maxwell St and Pinedale Dr.
September 2022Flash FloodCoppinville-Several inches of water were reported on Rucker Blvd near the Coffee-Dale county line.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindCoppinville-An aluminum carport was destroyed at the 3000 block of Rucker Blvd.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindCoppinville-A tree was blown down on Lynn Road.

Every storm recorded in Coffee County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Regency Heights1.0 miles12
Pinedale Estates1.0 miles12
Omni1.0 miles12
Chateau Court1.1 miles12
Deerfield Park1.4 miles12
Green Acres1.4 miles12
Indian Springs1.4 miles12
Jamestown Colony1.4 miles12

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122559773The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 149945. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.