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Coupland, Texas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Taylor census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78615. The Survey maps it on the Coupland quadrangle. 289 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Coupland within Williamson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

16 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Coupland between 2006 and 2017, burning about 123 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None was 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 burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
17 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service17-8170017
17 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceC.R. 463 FIRE
27 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 June 2008Natural22 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
23 May 2009Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWCSO MA
16 March 2009Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceC.R. 456 MA
11 March 2008Natural2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Williamson County

Storms near this place

9 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coupland in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 5 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood. 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
August 2003Thunderstorm WindCoupland$100,000Severe thunderstorms produced winds that damaged windows and roofs in and around the Coupland area. The winds also blew over a trailer.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindCoupland$10,000A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 65 mph. These winds damaged roof shingles on multiple homes, an outdoor fountain, a recreational vehicle, and knocked down tree limbs.
May 2024HailCoupland-A thunderstorm produced four inch diameter hail off of CR 460 in Coupland.
May 2024HailCoupland-A thunderstorm produced 2.5 inch diameter hail in Coupland.
September 2018Flash FloodCoupland-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding closing several roads in and around Coupland.
March 2009HailCoupland-A thunderstorm produced penny size hail in Coupland.
June 2007Flash FloodCoupland-Thunderstorms produced 2 to 3 inch rain totals over extreme eastern Williamson County with up to 4 inches near Coupland. Among the Williamson County roads due to high water were FM619 and FM973.
May 2008HailCoupland-no account filed
January 1998HailCoupland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Williamson 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
Type2.1 miles16
Rices Crossing3.9 miles17
Beyersville4.7 miles14
Normans Crossing5.8 miles17
Siloam6.0 miles16
Norman6.1 miles17
Structure6.1 miles16
Taylor7.7 miles15

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 CouplandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5178006The 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 1355183. 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.