Coopers Plains, New York
23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Erwin town. It lies in ZIP code area 14870. It lies near Frog Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Campbell quadrangle. 609 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,004 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1914 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 72 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Population over time
2 figuresCoopers Plains grew from 598 to 609 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 598 | |
| 2020 | 609 | +11 (+2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 23 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1914 USGS Corning quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
- 1944 USGS Corning quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Campbell quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Campbell quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Hornell quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
196 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 196 fires within 5 miles of Coopers Plains between 1993 and 2020, burning about 210 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 28 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 88 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 28 |
| Debris and open burning | 26 |
| Smoking | 23 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 18 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2006 | Smoking | 2.0 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 6 September 2005 | Smoking | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 28 September 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.6 acres | New York Forest Rangers | WEST HILL FIRE |
| 28 September 2014 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 23 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.8 acres | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 22 September 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 2 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 1 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Coopers Plains: 2 producers, 1 past producer, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Salt, Zirconium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corning Plant | Zirconium | Unknown | ||
| E.Collins No.1 Well | Salt | Past Producer | ||
| Canada Road Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Coopers Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
4 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coopers Plains in 4 storm reports between 2012 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coopers Plains | $5,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds brought down a tree on County Road 4 near John Rial Road. |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coopers Plains | $1,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree onto a roadway. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coopers Plains | $1,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree blocking the road. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Coopers Plains | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Curtis | 2.3 miles | 23 | |
| Painted Post | 2.9 miles | 23 | |
| East Campbell | 2.9 miles | 23 | |
| Gang Mills | 3.0 miles | 23 | |
| Riverside | 3.6 miles | 23 | |
| Campbell | 4.6 miles | 23 | |
| Erwins | 4.8 miles | 23 | |
| Denmark | 5.0 miles | 23 |
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 Coopers Plains | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5786312 | The 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 970033. 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.








