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Coupeville is a town on Whidbey Island in Island County, Washington, and serves as the county seat of Island County.

Before European settlement, Penn Cove was inhabited by the Lower Skagit, a Lushootseed-speaking Coast Salish people, whose largest of three villages around the bay stood at the site of present-day Coupeville.

Coupeville was laid out in the 1850s by Captain Thomas Coupe and named for him, and the town was officially incorporated on April 20, 1910.

Coupeville forms the historic district at the heart of Ebey's Landing National Historical Reserve, established by Congress in 1978 as the first and only National Historical Reserve in the nation.

The reserve's 22 square miles encompass farmlands, Fort Ebey State Park, Fort Casey State Park, shorelines, and 91 buildings and structures listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The 2020 census counted 1,942 residents in 914 households in Coupeville, with a median age of 55.9 years and 35.8 percent of residents aged 65 or older.

Coupeville sits in the rain shadow of the Olympic Mountains and receives only about 20 inches of precipitation a year, giving it a warm-summer Mediterranean climate unlike most of western Washington.

Coupeville's Penn Cove waterfront was a filming location for the 1998 movie Practical Magic.

The town is served by the Coupeville School District, and Olympic dressage rider Adrienne Lyle is among its notable residents.

Coupeville faces Penn Cove, an inlet of Saratoga Passage, near the center of Whidbey Island in Puget Sound between the mainland and the Olympic Peninsula.