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Copenhagen, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Denmark town. It lies in ZIP code area 13626. The Survey maps it on the Copenhagen quadrangle. 631 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,165 feet above sea level.

Copenhagen within Lewis County

Then and now

1902 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Copenhagen, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Copenhagen, surveyed 1902

On record in Copenhagen

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Copenhagen fell from 801 to 631 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.

YearPeople Change
2010801
2020631-170 (-21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

61 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Copenhagen between 1995 and 2020, burning about 71 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 16 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/undetermined35
Arson/incendiarism16
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural2

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
23 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 August 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
18 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 July 2004Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 July 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 July 1995Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
17 July 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
5 June 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lewis 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 Copenhagen: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Harpers Ferry PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lewis County

Storms near this place

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Copenhagen in 2 storm reports between 2014 and 2016: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2016Thunderstorm WindCopenhagen$12,000A social media post reported multiple trees down by thunderstorm winds.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindCopenhagen-Law enforcement reported trees and wires down.

Every storm recorded in Lewis 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
Clark Corners1.0 miles19
Denmark4.8 miles20
Deer River5.1 miles20
Harrisburg5.2 miles19
Bellwood6.3 miles20
Windecker7.3 miles19
Briggs Corner7.4 miles19
New Boston7.5 miles20

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 CopenhagenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3459904The 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 947413. 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.