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Covington, Oklahoma

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the South Garfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73730. The Survey maps it on the Covington quadrangle. 472 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Covington within Garfield County

On record in Covington

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 3 records

Population over time

3 figures

Covington fell from 553 to 472 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2000553
2010527-26 (-5%)
2020472-55 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Covington: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Shale PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Garfield County

Storms near this place

30 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Covington in 30 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 22 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
May 1999Tornado (F2)Covington$25,000Tornado H4 (Garfield County portion). See summary at end of May 3rd storm reports.
April 2010Thunderstorm WindCovington$5,000A couple of power lines and one pole was blown down near Highway 74. Monetary damages were estimated.
May 2025HailCovington-An image was relayed by emergency management.
March 2009HailCovington-Reports of dime to nickel size hail were relayed by the county EM.
July 2004HailCovington-Hail was reported by KWTV Channel 9.
April 2026HailCovington-no account filed
May 2019HailCovington-no account filed
March 2008Thunderstorm WindCovington-no account filed
April 2006HailCovington-no account filed
August 2004Thunderstorm WindCovington-no account filed
May 2003HailCovington-no account filed
May 2002HailCovington-no account filed
June 2001HailCovington-no account filed
June 1999HailCovington-no account filed
September 1999Thunderstorm WindCovington-no account filed
September 1999HailCovington-no account filed
August 1999Flash FloodCovington-no account filed
September 1999HailCovington-no account filed
September 1998HailCovington-no account filed
June 1998HailCovington-no account filed
June 1998HailCovington-no account filed
April 1997HailCovington-no account filed
April 1996HailCovington-no account filed
April 1996HailCovington-no account filed
April 1996HailCovington-no account filed
April 1994Thunderstorm WindCovington-no account filed
April 1994HailCovington-no account filed
April 1994HailCovington-no account filed
June 1994Thunderstorm WindCovington-no account filed
October 1994HailCovington-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Garfield 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
Callahan1.2 miles10
Hayward4.4 miles10
Douglas5.5 miles10
Fairmont7.1 miles10
Garber8.9 miles10
Etna9.5 miles10
Cropper10.7 miles10
Shea11.6 miles14

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on CovingtonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2118826The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1091764. 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.

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.