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Covington, Texas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Itasca census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76636. The Survey maps it on the Covington quadrangle. 261 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 758 feet above sea level.

Covington within Hill County

Population over time

3 figures

Covington fell from 282 to 261 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
2000282
2010269-13 (-5%)
2020261-8 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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

189 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 189 fires within 5 miles of Covington between 2005 and 2020, burning about 2,026 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 17 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 burning88
Missing data/not specified/undetermined49
Equipment and vehicle use29
Arson/incendiarism17
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
3 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service185
27 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service205
27 September 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service145
24 September 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service164
20 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service161
20 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service113
2 September 2011Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service149
18 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service195

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hill County

Storms near this place

19 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Covington in 19 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 8 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2008Thunderstorm WindCovington$35,000Damage was reported to roofs and outbuildings. Barns were also blown down.
May 2001Thunderstorm WindCovington$15,000A number of large trees were blown down, windows were blown out, outbuildings damaged, and fences were blown down by high winds.
May 2001Thunderstorm WindCovington$10,000Wind damaged several houses.
May 2013HailCovington$5,000The Johnson County Emergency Manager reported golf ball sized hail in the city of Covington.
March 2000Thunderstorm WindCovington$5,000A house was damaged and large trees blown down.
December 2024Flash FloodCovington$1,000An mPING report of cropland and yard flooding was received in northern Hill County.
November 2024Flash FloodCovington-A mPING report indicated streets flooded and vehicles stranded in Covington.
April 2017FloodCovington-Emergency management reported 2 to 3 inches of water over Hwy 67 in northern Hill County.
May 2015FloodCovington-Hill County Sheriff's Department reported that the 200 block of County Road 1418 near Covington, TX was partially washed out.
December 2002Thunderstorm WindCovington-A large tree was blown down by high winds.
December 1998Flash FloodCovington-Thunderstorm rains caused county roads to be closed due to high water.
May 1993Tornado (F0)Covington-Tornado reported by DPS.
April 2011HailCovington-no account filed
February 2008HailCovington-no account filed
December 2002HailCovington-no account filed
March 2000HailCovington-no account filed
April 1995HailCovington-no account filed
April 1995HailCovington-no account filed
March 1994HailCovington-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hill 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
Osceola3.7 miles14
Woodrow3.7 miles17
Derden3.8 miles17
Blanton5.8 miles17
Itasca5.9 miles14
Grub Hill6.5 miles17
Mayfield6.6 miles15
Red Hill7.0 miles17

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 Q978665The 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 1333536. 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.

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.