Cove, Texas
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Mont Belvieu census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77523. It lies near Bird Island. The Survey maps it on the Cove quadrangle. 525 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 23 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresCove grew from 510 to 525 between 2010 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 510 | |
| 2020 | 525 | +15 (+3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1950 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Cove quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1975 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Anahuac quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1993 USGS Cove quadrangle1:24000
- 1995 USGS Cove quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
8 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Cove between 1999 and 2011, burning about 146 acres in total. None 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 burning | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 August 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 57 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LIVINGSTON - 819 |
| 5 February 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 12 February 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 19 November 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 75 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 29 October 2007 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 28 October 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 19 October 2007 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 10 October 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Cove: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Halite. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lost Lake Salt Dome | Halite | Occurrence | 1925 |
Storms near this place
6 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cove in 6 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 3 tornado, 2 hail, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2018 | Tornado (EF1) | Cove | $50,000 | An EF-1 tornado touched down and caused damage within the Lanai Subdivision along Interstate 10 between FM 3180 and FM 565. Several homes sustained minor roof damage and numerous trees were uprooted. There were some snapped trees and power lines. One large trailer was overturned. |
| January 1998 | Hail | Cove | $10,000 | no account filed |
| April 1997 | Hail | Cove | $10,000 | no account filed |
| January 2023 | Tornado (EF0) | Cove | - | This short-lived EF0 tornado produced damage to some trees the the Cove area. |
| October 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cove | - | Thunderstorm winds snapped large softwood trees a few feet from their trunks. One to three inch diameter branches were broken off. There was minor home damage. |
| March 2017 | Tornado (EF0) | Cove | - | This EF-0 tornado was the last of four brief tornadoes from an HP supercell which moved across southeast Harris County and southern Chambers County. This short-lived tornado was confined to the end of Kendall Road along Dutton Lake where there was some small tree damage. The Houston Hobby terminal doppler radar showed a brief couplet at this location, and the tree fall pattern supported this rotation. Estimated peak winds were 75 mph. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Old River-Winfree | 3.2 miles | 12 | |
| Wallisville | 3.3 miles | 12 | |
| Mont Belvieu | 4.9 miles | 15 | |
| Eminence | 5.9 miles | 12 | |
| Turtle Bayou | 7.2 miles | 12 | |
| Anahuac | 7.4 miles | 12 | |
| Hankamer | 9.5 miles | 12 | |
| Monroe City | 11.9 miles | 10 |
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 Cove | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q979190 | The 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 1373248. 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.






