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Covington, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1999. It stands in Covington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49919. The Survey maps it on the Covington quadrangle.

Covington within Baraga County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

10 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Covington between 1992 and 2018, burning about 1,136 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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 burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
30 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBEBER ROAD #2
30 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBEBER ROAD
2 August 2007Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 July 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCARDBOARD
26 July 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOttawa National ForestTIBBETS ROAD
26 July 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTIBBET'S FALLS
14 May 1992Recreation and ceremony5.4 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 April 2007Debris and open burning1,127 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBARAGA BUMP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Baraga County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Covington: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Granite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Sidnaw Slate QuarryGranitePast Producer
Norback PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Norback PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Baraga County

Storms near this place

15 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Covington in 15 storm reports between 1998 and 2007: 8 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2006Thunderstorm WindCovington$50,000Hundreds of trees were either uprooted or snapped along a greater than 20 mile damage path. The more concentrated wind damage began near the Covington Rest Home where an outbuilding was damaged and several large tree limbs were knocked down. As the storm tracked east, numerous trees were uprooted and/or snapped mainly in an area bounded by Cemetary Road, Besonen Road and Highway M-28. Within this area, just behind the VFW building off of VFW Road, there was a localized area where nearly twenty trees were blown down. The wind damage continued across Highway M-28 and eastward along the entire length of old M-28. A resident near the intersection of old M-28 and Foy Road in Covington had a large spruce tree snap off and fall to the ground missing his house by inches. Two eyewitnesses in Covington reported hail greater than the size of quarters during the peak of the storm. Sporadic tree damage was also reported in rural areas north of King Lake Road eastward to Three Lakes. Some tree damage was also noted along Highway M-28/US-41 in Three Lakes and a resident from near Petticoat Lake reported some tree damage.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindCovington$10,00065 mph wind gusts downed 18 to 24 inch diameter trees.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindCovington$1,000Several trees down along old M-28.
June 2007HailCovington-Mostly pea with some penny hail.
July 2006HailCovington-Hail lasted for ten minutes.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindCovington-One to two inch diameter branches broken.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindCovington-Two inch diameter tree branches broken off.
June 2002HailCovington-Three quarter inch hail was reported.
July 2002HailCovington-One inch diameter hail was reported.
August 2002HailCovington-One inch hail was reported.
September 2002HailCovington-Golf ball sized hail was reported.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindCovington-58 mph gust.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindCovington-8 to 10 inch trees down in King Lake Campground.
June 2005HailCovington-no account filed
June 2000HailCovington-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Baraga County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Watton3.7 miles12
Vermilac4.2 miles12
Alberta7.7 miles12
Tunis8.0 miles14
Tioga10.0 miles12
Herman12.5 miles12
Bovine13.8 miles12
Nestoria14.6 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 623922. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.