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Coupland is a small city in southeastern Williamson County, Texas, on State Highway 95 about twenty-five miles northeast of Austin.

The townsite traces to 1859, when Morgan C. Hamilton bought large tracts of land along Brushy Creek; the land later passed to his nephew, Major Theodore Van Buren Coupland, for whom the town is named.

Coupland was founded in 1887, when the Taylor, Bastrop and Austin Railroad bought a right-of-way through the land and the Coupland City Corporation began selling town lots — the first public sale was held on May 12, 1887.

John Goetz bought the first lots, operated the first general store and became the first postmaster when Coupland's post office began in 1889.

By 1900 Coupland was a prosperous gathering place for the Swedish, German and Swiss farm families who had settled the surrounding blackland prairie.

At its peak in the 1920s and 1930s, Coupland boasted a bank, a drug store, its own doctor and dentist, a meat market, two full-service garages, two cotton gins and a railroad depot.

Coupland then remained unincorporated for 125 years, until residents voted overwhelmingly to incorporate on November 6, 2012 — the 125th anniversary of its founding — largely so that Coupland could remain Coupland as neighboring cities' jurisdictions crept closer; its first city council was elected in May 2013.

The 2020 census counted just 289 residents in Coupland, spread over about 1.9 square miles of Williamson County farmland.

The Coupland Independent School District runs a single campus, Coupland Elementary, serving pre-kindergarten through eighth grade; older students travel to high schools in nearby Taylor, Elgin or Pflugerville.

Local landmarks include the restored railroad depot and museum, the Old Coupland Inn, and the 140-foot Coupland Bridge over Brushy Creek, built in 1912 and restored in 2005.