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Copeville, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Farmersville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75173. It stands on Price Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lavon quadrangle. It stands 554 feet above sea level.

Copeville within Collin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

258 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 258 fires within 5 miles of Copeville between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,047 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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
Debris and open burning148
Missing data/not specified/undetermined63
Equipment and vehicle use28
Smoking5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony2

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
9 September 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service15571 CR 543 - 11076947
8 September 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service9641 COUNTY ROAD 1088 - 12076362
6 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 78 & FM 6 - 11075970
6 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service18654 CR 913 - 11075679
30 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceW FM 6 / N STATE HIGHWAY 78 - 14099438
3 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service9597 COUNTY ROAD 1088
29 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOUNTY ROAD 966 AND COUNTY ROAD 487
27 September 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1154 ROLLING MEADOW DR - 14098364

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Collin County

Storms near this place

5 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Copeville in 5 storm reports between 1996 and 2015: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. The reports record 2 deaths and 119 injuries. 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
December 2015Tornado (EF2)Copeville2 killed, 119 hurt, $1,400,000A National Weather Service damage survey team found damage consistent with an EF-2 tornado in and near Copeville. The damage began in a residential area, damaging over 30 homes. The strongest part of the storm was along State Highway 78, where several businesses were destroyed, including a gas station / convenience store at SH 78 and FM 1778, where two people were killed. The tornado had a serpentine path, going on both sides of SH 78, before lifting in an open field about halfway between Copeville and Farmersville.
December 2012Thunderstorm WindCopeville$150,000Strong thunderstorm winds rolled a mobile home onto its top in the community of Copeville. No one was home at the time of the incident. Other substantial wind damage was reported in Copeville including the exterior metal roof of another mobile home was also peeled off. Outbuildings, sheds, playground equipment, trees, and fences were also damaged in the community.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindCopeville$5,000A 62 MPH wind gust was measured near the intersection of Highway 78 and CR 549 on the east side of Lake Lavon. Power flashes were also reported.
April 2008HailCopeville-no account filed
February 1996HailCopeville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Collin 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
Pebble Beach Sunset Acres1.9 miles11
Little Ridge2.4 miles11
Deep Water Point Estates2.5 miles11
New Mesquite2.7 miles11
Lavon Beach Estates3.0 miles11
Nevada3.4 miles9
Yucote Acres3.6 miles11
Lavon3.7 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 CopevilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1088876The 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 1333321. 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.

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.