Covington Mills and Mill Village Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Newton County · listed in 2000 · category: District.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by Wheat, Collins and Lott Sts. and, to the norht, the Covington Mills pond and Creek, Covington, 30014
When was it listed? April 2000
Category. district
Census division. Covington-Porterdale
National Register reference number. 00000370 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

272 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 272 fires within 5 miles of Covington Mills and Mill Village Historic District between 1992 and 2019, burning about 426 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 34 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	104
Arson/incendiarism	34
Equipment and vehicle use	29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	22
Misuse of fire by a minor	22
Smoking	20
Natural	18
Railroad operations and maintenance	12
Recreation and ceremony	11

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
5 September 2002	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-NEWTON-007
4 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020NEWTON001
30 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-NEWTON-003
3 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-NEWTON-003
16 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1997	Debris and open burning	13 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Newton County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Covington Mills and Mill Village Historic District: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Newton County Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
	Oxford Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Newton County

Storms near this property

54 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Covington, the town this property stands in, in 54 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 26 hail, 20 thunderstorm wind, 4 lightning, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
December 2015	Flash Flood	Covington	$781,000	The Newton County Emergency Manager reported an entire shopping center parking lot in the Covington area was flooded by the adjacent Dried Indian Creek. Flood waters entered some of the stores.
April 2000	Lightning	Covington	$500,000	The Rockdale Citizen in Conyers reported that lightning caused an extensive fire to a home in Covington. The lightning came in on a ham radio antenna. It took over 65,000 gallons of water and firefighters from seven different communities to battle a 4-alarm blaze set by the lightning. The house was a total loss with $300,000 estimated damages to the structure alone and another $200,000 in damages to contents. The house also contained a dental office.
October 2020	Tornado (EF1)	Covington	$250,000	A National Weather Service survey team found that an EF1 tornado with maximum wind speeds of 90 mph and a maximum path width of 75 yards travelled 1.43 miles across parts of Newton County on the west side of Covington. The tornado first touched down near the intersection of Washington Street and Walker Bend Parkway and moved northwest, ending just south of I-20 along Woodhaven Drive. The tornado produced some tree and structural damage with the most serious and extensive damage occurring along Turner Lake Circle at a homeless shelter where portions of the roof and walls of the building were damaged. Two people suffered minor injuries. [10/10/20: Tornado #1, County #1/1, EF-1, Newton, 2020:028].
July 2007	Lightning	Covington	$200,000	The Newton Citizen of Rockdale reported that lightning struck a home on Williams Road near Georgia Highway 81. Extensive damage resulted to the attic. The four occupants were displaced from their home. Lightning also knocked out the power line to a home on Georgia Highway 142, but there was no fire reported that this site.
April 2005	Hail	Covington	$70,000	The public reported penny to golf ball-sized hail in Covington and penny-sized hail in Almon.
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Covington	$10,000	The Covington News reported that thunderstorm winds caused damage to at least two shops in downtown Covington. Several plate glass windows were shattered in a downtown clothing store, along with the front door and a large back window. At the downtown Deli, a large 98-year old neon sign outside the building was battered and left dangling above the restaurant by one cord. Several trees were blown down around the downtown area as well, leaving much of the area without power during the evening.
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Covington	$10,000	Thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and power lines all over town in Covington and in Newton county. Some structures were damaged as trees feell on them. The time was estimated from a newspaper article.
April 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Covington	$7,500	no account filed
September 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Covington	$5,000	An off-duty National Weather Service employee reported numerous tents and canopies damaged at the Newton County fairgrounds. No injuries were reported.
July 2004	Lightning	Covington	$4,000	The Covington News reported that seven cows were killed by lightning. The cows were located on a farm north of Covington off Gum Creek Road. A brood of four cows and three calves were killed instantly by a lightning strike. The cows were between four and seven years old.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Covington	$4,000	Thunderstorm winds knocked down several trees.
January 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Covington	$3,000	The public reported several trees and power lines down near Covington.
March 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Covington	$2,000	A couple trees downed on the west side of town off clark st.
August 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Covington	$1,500	The Rockdale Citizen of Conyers reported that thunderstorm winds blew down a tree onto a telephone pole knocking out power to about 50 residents for around three hours. Later, another large branch fell off an oak tree in the same general area knocking power out to about 800-1000 customers.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Covington	$1,000	Large tree fell on a portion of a house and pool near Phedora St and Elizabeth St.
March 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Covington	$1,000	The public reported a tree blown down at the Covington Park & Ride lot.
April 2005	Lightning	Covington	$1,000	The Newton County 911 Center reported that a home was struck by lightning. Damage was minor.
February 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Covington	$1,000	The Newton county 911 center reported that several trees were blown down near the intersection of U.S. Highway 278 and Georgia Highway 142.
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Covington	$1,000	no account filed
April 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Covington	$500	The Newton County 911 Center reported that two trees were down at Emory Street and Echols Street.
December 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Covington	$500	The Newton County 911 Center reported that a couple of trees were blown down.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Covington	$500	The Newton county 911 center reported that a few trees were blown down.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Covington	$500	The public reported that a few trees were blown down.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Covington	$500	The Newton county 911 center reported that a few trees were down.
September 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Covington	$500	Thunderstorm winds blew several trees down at Adams Road and at Hazelbrown Road.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Covington	$200	The public reported trees down on Salem Road.
June 2020	Hail	Covington	-	A trained spotter reported hail the size of quarters at the intersection of Highway 278 and Pace Street.
June 2020	Hail	Covington	-	A trained spotter reported hail the size of quarters at the intersection of Elm Street and Floyd Street.
May 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Covington	-	Numerous trees and powerlines down in Covington. Additional reports of trees down across Newton County.
May 2011	Hail	Covington	-	The public observed half-dollar-sized hail near Convington. WSR-88D radar data suggests that similar-sized hail likely fell from this point to just north of Brick Store in the far east central part of the county.
June 2011	Hail	Covington	-	The Newton County 911 Center reported that half-dollar-sized hail was observed at the Senior Services Center just west of Covington.
April 2009	Hail	Covington	-	The public observed penny-sized hail in the Covington area. Radar data suggests that most of the hail fell on the east and southeast side of Covington.
July 2008	Hail	Covington	-	The public observed penny-sized hail approximately five miles south of Covington.
August 2008	Hail	Covington	-	The Newton County 911 Center relayed a report of penny-sized hail west of Covington.
February 2005	Hail	Covington	-	A trained spotter with the Covington Police Department reported penny-sized hail.
May 2005	Hail	Covington	-	A trained spotter reported penny-sized hail.
July 2004	Hail	Covington	-	The Newton County 911 center reported penny-sized hail.
July 2003	Heavy Rain	Covington	-	The Covington Police Department reported that nearly 4 inches of rain fell during the day resulting in minor street flooding throughout the city.
May 2003	Hail	Covington	-	The public reported penny to nickel-sized hail.
May 2003	Hail	Covington	-	The public reported penny-sized hail in Covington and nickel-sized hail in Mansfield.
August 2003	Hail	Covington	-	The Newton county 911 center reported golf ball-sized hail.
November 2002	Flood	Covington	-	The Rockdale Citizen reported that there was some street flooding in the Covington area during the thunderstorms because of stopped up drainage systems.
April 2002	Hail	Covington	-	The public reported dime to quarter size hail.
June 2000	Hail	Covington	-	The public reported dime size hail.
June 2000	Hail	Covington	-	The public reported nickel size hail.
August 1999	Hail	Covington	-	There were several public reports of hail ranging from nickel to quarter size. One report said the hail was about ping pong ball size.
July 1999	Hail	Covington	-	The public reported penny and golf ball size hail.
February 1998	Hail	Covington	-	The public reported dime to nickel size hail.
May 1998	Hail	Covington	-	The public reported quarter size hail and wind strong enough to blow objects across the road.
July 1997	Hail	Covington	-	Dime to quarter sized hail was reported.
July 1997	Hail	Covington	-	Dime to quarter sized hail was reported.
April 1998	Hail	Covington	-	no account filed
May 1997	Hail	Covington	-	no account filed
June 1996	Hail	Covington	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Newton County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Covington Historic District	0.8 miles	1998
Floyd Street Historic District	0.8 miles	1974
North Covington Historic District	0.9 miles	2000
Newton County Courthouse	1.0 miles	1980
Orna Villa	1.6 miles	1973
Oxford Historic District	1.9 miles	1975

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00000370 in Record Group 79.
Newton County	All 13 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.