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History · Coopers Plains

Coopers Plains’ post office opened in 1844

Most of Coopers Plains was built recently: 5% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1968. Below: 1 old photo or paper and maps from 1914 on.

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How Coopers Plains began

When was Coopers Plains founded?

1844

The Coopers Plains post office opened in 1844, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 609182 years
Founding year: the first Coopers Plains post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Coopers Plains’ past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenOnly 1 old photo is in the public archives. The rest are in attics and albums.On the map since 19145 editions of the USGS map, 1914 to 1978. Watch Coopers Plains change.Deep rootsA post office since 1844: 182 years of Coopers Plains.
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Start Coopers Plains’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Coopers Plains’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Retake an old viewRogersville (Village); Coopers Plains (…: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
On the map

Coopers Plains on the map, 1914 to 1978

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Coopers Plains. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Coopers Plains on the 1914 USGS mapCoopers Plains on the 1944 USGS mapCoopers Plains on the 1953 USGS mapCoopers Plains on the 1969 USGS mapCoopers Plains on the 1978 USGS map1914Corning sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Coopers Plains.

The story so far

Coopers Plains, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Coopers Plains yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Coopers Plains is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the towns of Erwin and Campbell in Steuben County, New York, United States. As of the 2020 census, Coopers Plains had a population of 609. The community is in eastern Steuben County, in the northern part of Erwin and extending north into the southern part of Campbell. It is bordered to the south by Gang Mills. Coopers Plains occupies valley bottomland between the Cohocton River to the south and Meads Creek to the northeast, extending southeast to their confluence. The Cohocton is a southeast-flowing tributary of the Chemung River and part of the Susquehanna River watershed. New York State Route 415 (Victory Highway) passes thro…

Its first post office opened in 1844. Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 598 in 2010, 609 in 2020.

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

By decade

Coopers Plains, decade by decade

One decade in the archive so far: the 1870s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1870s1 item
Rogersville (Village); Coopers Plains (Village); Dansville Business Notices.; Burns (Village); Cooper's Plains Business…1873Rogersville (Village); Coopers Plains (Village); Dans…
Then & now

Stand where they stood

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.

Rogersville (Village); Coopers Plains (Village); Dansville Business Notices.; Burns (Village); Cooper's Plains Business…
Retake this viewRogersville (Village); Coopers Plains (Village); Dansville Business Notices.; Burns (Village); Cooper's Plains Business…, 1873

Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Coopers Plains’ page.

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Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Gang MillsIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Coopers Plains’ history

What year was Coopers Plains founded?

The Coopers Plains post office opened in 1844, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (1) and U.S. Geological Survey historical maps. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.