Copake Lake, New York
20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Copake town. It lies in ZIP code area 12529. It lies near Center Hill. The Survey maps it on the Hillsdale quadrangle. 767 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 719 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1902 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 84 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 figuresCopake Lake fell from 823 to 767 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 | 823 | |
| 2020 | 767 | -56 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 20 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.
- 1902 USGS Copake quadrangle1:62500
- 1904 USGS Copake quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
- 1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Hillsdale quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Hillsdale quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Pittsfield quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
109 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 109 fires within 5 miles of Copake Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 156 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 18 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 | 46 |
| Debris and open burning | 19 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 18 |
| Natural | 10 |
| Smoking | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 5 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 28 September 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 25 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 23 September 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 20 September 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 16 September 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 15 September 2003 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Copake Lake: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese, Zinc, Zinc, Manganese. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Copake Limonite Mine | Iron, Manganese, Zinc | Past Producer | Goethite, Limonite | |
| Copake Limonite Mine | Iron, Zinc, Manganese | Past Producer | ||
| Copake Mine | Iron | Past Producer | Residual | |
| Hillsdale Limonite Mine | Iron | Past Producer | Limonite | |
| Hillsdale Mine | Iron | Past Producer | Residual |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pumpkin Hollow | 2.1 miles | 20 | |
| Taconic Shores | 2.3 miles | 20 | |
| Craryville | 2.5 miles | 20 | |
| West Copake | 3.0 miles | 20 | |
| Copake | 3.0 miles | 20 | |
| Copake Falls | 3.3 miles | 20 | |
| East Taghkanic | 4.0 miles | 23 | |
| Hillsdale | 4.1 miles | 20 |
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 Copake Lake | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3461845 | 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 1852895. 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.









