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Kopperl (pronounced KOP-er-ul) is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Bosque County in Central Texas, sitting on the northwestern end of Lake Whitney.

Kopperl was founded in 1881 as a regional shipping point on the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway, and it was named after Galveston banker and railroad tycoon Moritz Kopperl.

The town's population peaked at 329 in 1904, and the Census Bureau counted 164 residents in the CDP at the 2020 census — about 303 people per square mile on its half square mile of land.

Kopperl is famous in weather lore for the night of June 15, 1960, when a rare heat burst — remembered locally as "Satan's Storm" — struck just after midnight as a dying thunderstorm collapsed over the town.

During the 1960 heat burst, superheated air slammed to the ground in gusts up to 75 miles per hour and the temperature reportedly shot toward 140 degrees Fahrenheit — hotter than Texas's official all-time record high — breaking thermometers and leaving corn cooked on the stalk and young cotton fields scorched by morning.

Kopperl is the town portrayed in "Texas Trilogy," the song cycle by Texas singer-songwriter Steve Fromholz that was later covered by Lyle Lovett.