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Kopperl, Texas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Meridian census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76652. It stands on Plowman Creek. The Survey maps it on the Morgan quadrangle. 164 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 568 feet above sea level.

Kopperl within Bosque County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

150 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 150 fires within 5 miles of Kopperl between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,963 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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 burning83
Missing data/not specified/undetermined36
Equipment and vehicle use17
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking3
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2016Debris and open burning1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest Service5416
7 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 2850
6 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use35 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1191 BAILER FIRE
6 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use20 acresTexas A & M Forest Service24
6 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service5316
30 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service3415
19 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONTROLLED BURN
12 September 2012Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 1104 FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bosque County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Kopperl: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Calcium. 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
Blum Quarry and PlantCalciumProducer
Unnamed QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Bosque County

Storms near this place

14 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kopperl in 14 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 9 hail, 2 tornado, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 death. 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
April 2016Flash FloodKopperl1 killed, $20,000According to late published newspaper reports, a man was found dead inside his truck which was submerged in a creek that feeds into the upper end of Lake Whitney / Brazos River in Bosque County. Reports suggest the truck was driving on Bosque County Road 1190, when the vehicle was swept off the roadway.
May 2001Tornado (F0)Kopperl$20,000A tornado downed numerous trees in the community and caused minor roof damage. A mobile home was damaged northeast of town.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindKopperl$10,000A concession stand was blown into the road at Highway 56 and Highway 174 just north of Kopperl. In the same area, a home on County Road 1190 off of Highway 174 sustained roof damage.
May 2021HailKopperl$5,000no account filed
May 2025HailKopperl-A trained spotter reported quarter sized hail between Kopperl and Lakeside Village.
April 2012HailKopperl-Hail up to the size of dimes was reported on the west side of Lake Whitney near Kopperl.
May 2005HailKopperl-Golf ball size hail fell along Highway 174.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindKopperl-Strong winds blew down large tree limbs.
January 1995HailKopperl-Nickel-size hail covered the ground two inches deep on Highway 6.
May 2005HailKopperl-no account filed
May 2003HailKopperl-no account filed
March 2000HailKopperl-no account filed
January 1998HailKopperl-no account filed
October 1996Tornado (F0)Kopperl-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bosque 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
Kimball (historical)2.9 miles18
Lakeside Village3.4 miles18
Morgan6.6 miles17
Cedar Shores9.9 miles16
Brazos Point10.1 miles18
Eulogy10.6 miles17
Lakewood Harbor12.3 miles16
Meridian13.0 miles13

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 KopperlAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6431173The 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 1339225. 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.