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Copeland, Oklahoma

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Grove census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74331. It stands on Hickory Creek. The Survey maps it on the Afton NE quadrangle. 1,511 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 786 feet above sea level.

Copeland within Delaware County

Population over time

2 figures

Copeland fell from 1,629 to 1,511 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
20101,629
20201,511-118 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

21 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Copeland between 1992 and 2020, burning about 237 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined7
Arson/incendiarism5
Debris and open burning4
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
4 September 2020Naturalunder an acreMiami AgencyDUNN
24 August 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
14 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30374
5 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMiami AgencyMUSHROOM
5 March 2010Natural1.7 acresMiami AgencyDEER VALLEY
5 March 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
29 March 2016Debris and open burning1.1 acresMiami AgencyPARIDISE
19 March 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreMiami AgencyMIDNIGHT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delaware County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Copeland: 5 past producers. 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
Robert Longan Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Delaware County

Storms near this place

6 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Copeland in 6 storm reports between 2010 and 2024: 4 hail, 1 tornado, 1 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
May 2024HailCopeland$40,000Golf ball size hail damaged homes and vehicles.
March 2017HailCopeland$5,000no account filed
April 2017HailCopeland$5,000no account filed
November 2020Thunderstorm WindCopeland-Thunderstorm wind gusts were measured to 63 mph.
May 2010Tornado (EF1)Copeland-A tornado developed near Copeland and moved east-northeast into Ottawa County. The tornado uprooted or snapped numerous trees in northern Delaware County. The estimated peak wind in the tornado based on this damage was 90 mph.
May 2019HailCopeland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Delaware 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
Grove5.3 miles14
Bernice5.5 miles14
Cayuga8.0 miles14
Dennis8.6 miles14
Cleora9.2 miles14
Dodge10.7 miles14
Zena11.1 miles19
Jay16.3 miles19

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 Q3310646The 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 1100319. 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.