Copan is a town in Washington County, Oklahoma, United States. As of the 2020 census, Copan had a population of 710.
History
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway ("Santa Fe") built a station at this site in 1899, which it named Copan, after the city of Copán, Honduras. However, when a post office was established here in 1900, it was designated as Lawton. The settlement was renamed Weldon in 1901, but reverted to Copan in 1904. It was incorporated under that name in Indian Territory in 1906. The Copan school district was founded in 1906, as well. By 1907, the town had 305 residents.
The blossoming oil industry in Washington County spurred the growth of Copan. The Prairie Oil and Gas Company built Oklahoma's first trunk pipeline, which ran from Bartlesville, Oklahoma to Humboldt, Kansas in 1904. It also included an oil storage terminal near Copan with 107 tanks, designed to hold 35,000 barrels of crude oil. The Copan oil field was discovered in 1907, and had nearly 2,200 producing wells by 1915.
Geography
Copan is north of Bartlesville on U.S. Highway 75.
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2020 census
As of the 2020 census, Copan had a population of 710. The median age was 42.9 years. 22.4% of residents were under the age of 18 and 20.6% of residents were 65 years of age or older. For every 100 females there were 91.4 males, and for every 100 females age 18 and over there were 90.0 males age 18 and over.
There were 295 households in Copan, of which 34.2% had children under the age of 18 living in them. Of all households, 41.4% were married-couple households, 19.7% were households with a male householder and no spouse or partner present, and 29.8% were households with a female householder and no spouse or partner present. About 25.0% of all households were made up of individuals and 15.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.
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| White || 562 || 79.2%
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| Black or African American || 1 || 0.1%
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| American Indian and Alaska Native || 82 || 11.5%
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| Asian || 0 || 0.0%
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| Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander || 0 || 0.0%
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| Some other race || 4 || 0.6%
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| Two or more races || 61 || 8.6%
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| Hispanic or Latino (of any race) || 22 || 3.1%
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2000 census
As of the census