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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.

Cove within Chambers County

Population over time

2 figures

Cove 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.

YearPeople Change
2010510
2020525+15 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

8 since 1999

Regional 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 burning4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
31 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use57 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLIVINGSTON - 819
5 February 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
12 February 2006Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
19 November 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined75 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 October 2007Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 October 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
19 October 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
10 October 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chambers County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Lost Lake Salt DomeHaliteOccurrence1925

Every working recorded in Chambers County

Storms near this place

6 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2018Tornado (EF1)Cove$50,000An 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 1998HailCove$10,000no account filed
April 1997HailCove$10,000no account filed
January 2023Tornado (EF0)Cove-This short-lived EF0 tornado produced damage to some trees the the Cove area.
October 2018Thunderstorm WindCove-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 2017Tornado (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.

Every storm recorded in Chambers 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
Old River-Winfree3.2 miles12
Wallisville3.3 miles12
Mont Belvieu4.9 miles15
Eminence5.9 miles12
Turtle Bayou7.2 miles12
Anahuac7.4 miles12
Hankamer9.5 miles12
Monroe City11.9 miles10

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 CoveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q979190The 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.