Copperas Cove
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city in Texas, USA
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Texas
- Counties
- Coryell , Lampasas , Bell
- Founded
- March 25, 1879
- Type
- Council-Manager
- Total
- 18.03 sq mi (46.71 km )
- Land
- 18.03 sq mi (46.71 km )
- Water
- 0 sq mi (0.00 km )
- Elevation
- 1,125 ft (343 m)
- Density
- 2,033/sq mi (785.1/km )
- Demonym
- Covite
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( Central (CST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 (CDT)
- Fips code
- 48-16624
- Website
- www .copperascovetx .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city in the United States
- Official name
- Copperas Cove
- Demonym
- Covite
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Coryell County
- Capital
- Coryell County
- Population
- 36670
- Area
- 46.691047
- Elevation
- 1093
- Time zone
- Central Time Zone
- Form of government
- city manager
- Official website
- www.copperascovetx.gov
- Image
- Copperas Cove downtown-2009.JPG
- Households
- 12632
- Dialing code
- 254
- Motto
- The City Built for Family Living
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- inception
- 1879-03-25
- postal code
- 76522
- nickname
- City of Five Hills
- Commons category
- Copperas Cove, Texas
- P8168
- P. C. Cast
- water as percent of area
- 0.0055
- per capita income
- 25219
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Encyclopedic overview
Copperas Cove (/ˈkɒpərəs/ KOP-ər-əs) is a city located in Central Texas at the southern corner of Coryell County, with smaller portions in Lampasas and Bell Counties. Founded in 1879 as a small ranching and farming community, the city is the largest in Coryell County, with a population of 36,670 at the 2020 census. The city's economy is closely linked to nearby Fort Hood, making it part of the Killeen-Temple-Fort Hood metropolitan statistical area.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Copperas Cove” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.