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Welcome to Cooperstown ...

Cooperstown is located in Stanislaus County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Cooperstown, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1901.

Cooperstown is 270 feet [82 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Cooperstown lies in the Pacific Time Zone (PST/PDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Codes for Cooperstown: 209 & 350<3>

Communities Also Named Cooperstown ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 11 communities that are also named Cooperstown - they are located in Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania (3) and Wisconsin.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Cooperstown.

Communities near Cooperstown ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Cooperstown.

  • Oakdale
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oakdale
    • Oakdale is located in Stanislaus County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 23,228 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Oakdale <4>
  • Waterford
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Sonora
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
  • La Grange
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Knights Ferry
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Chinese Camp
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Yosemite Junction
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yosemite Junction
    • Yosemite Junction is located in Tuolumne County
  • The Shores of Poker Flat
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
  • Jacksonville ‑ Historic
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Jacksonville. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jacksonville
    • Jacksonville is located in Tuolumne County
  • East Oakdale
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Oakdale
    • East Oakdale is located in Stanislaus County

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Cooperstown. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Cooperstown.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Cooperstown. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Cooperstown.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Cooperstown. See our Newspapers Page for Cooperstown.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Cooperstown ...

Looking for more information about Cooperstown? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Cooperstown, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Cooperstown.

Adding Cooperstown to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Cooperstown in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Cooperstown was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6>

From that list, the Cooperstown post office opened in 1901.

We also found Cooperstown mentioned on a train schedule titled Southern Pacific Railroad Time Tables (July 1929).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Cooperstown.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of California's counties, including Stanislaus, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Cooperstown - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 209 code has been Overlayed with the 350 area code. New phone numbers in the Cooperstown area will be assigned with one of these codes: 209 or 350. As a result, placing a call in the Cooperstown area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<6>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/