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Copeland, Florida

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Everglades census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34141. The Survey maps it on the Ochopee quadrangle. It stands 3 feet above sea level.

Copeland within Collier County

Then and now

1956 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 32 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Copeland, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Copeland, surveyed 1956

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

121 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 121 fires within 5 miles of Copeland between 1992 and 2020, burning about 18,396 acres in total. 46 started naturally. 19 were 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
Natural46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined42
Arson/incendiarism19
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning1

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
26 September 2001Natural1.0 acresBig Cypress National PreserveOPS FIRE
2 September 1994Natural9.0 acresBig Cypress National PreserveGONE
11 September 2000Natural2.9 acresBig Cypress National PreserveOCHOPELAKE
7 August 2003Natural1.5 acresBig Cypress National PreserveCOPELAND1
23 August 2012Natural4.0 acresBig Cypress National PreserveWAGON WHEEL
22 August 2012Natural6.0 acresBig Cypress National PreserveJEROME
20 August 2002Naturalunder an acreBig Cypress National PreserveMONROE
20 August 1994Natural17 acresBig Cypress National PreserveBIRDWAGON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Collier County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Copeland: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General. 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
Harmon Brothers - Copeland QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone

Every working recorded in Collier County

Storms near this place

2 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Copeland in 2 storm reports between 2005 and 2007: 1 tornado, 1 hail. 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
October 2005Tornado (F1)Copeland$40,000Tornado reported by Ochopee Fire Rescue near intersection of Tamiami Trail (US 41) and State Road 29, moving rapidly northwest. Tornado moved through Copeland, 3 miles north of the intersection, causing damage to power poles and transformers, slightly damaging structures, and uprooting large trees. The tornado was associated with an outer band of approaching Hurricane Wilma.
May 2007HailCopeland-Quarter size hail was reported by Collier County Sheriff's Department.

Every storm recorded in Collier 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
Lee Cypress0.7 miles10
Carnestown3.0 miles10
Jerome3.0 miles10
Ochopee4.6 miles10
Weavers Station6.1 miles11
Deep Lake6.2 miles12
Everglades City6.6 miles10
Plantation Island7.6 miles11

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.

Wikipedia article on CopelandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5168348The 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 295218. 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.