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.
Population over time
3 figuresCovington 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 282 | |
| 2010 | 269 | -13 (-5%) |
| 2020 | 261 | -8 (-3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 17 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.
- 1891 USGS Cleburne quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Cleburne quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1927 USGS Blum quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Covington quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Cleburne quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
189 since 2005Regional 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 burning | 88 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 49 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 29 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 17 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 185 |
| 27 September 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 205 |
| 27 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 145 |
| 24 September 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 164 |
| 20 September 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 161 |
| 20 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 113 |
| 2 September 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 149 |
| 18 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 195 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
19 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Covington | $35,000 | Damage was reported to roofs and outbuildings. Barns were also blown down. |
| May 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Covington | $15,000 | A number of large trees were blown down, windows were blown out, outbuildings damaged, and fences were blown down by high winds. |
| May 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Covington | $10,000 | Wind damaged several houses. |
| May 2013 | Hail | Covington | $5,000 | The Johnson County Emergency Manager reported golf ball sized hail in the city of Covington. |
| March 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Covington | $5,000 | A house was damaged and large trees blown down. |
| December 2024 | Flash Flood | Covington | $1,000 | An mPING report of cropland and yard flooding was received in northern Hill County. |
| November 2024 | Flash Flood | Covington | - | A mPING report indicated streets flooded and vehicles stranded in Covington. |
| April 2017 | Flood | Covington | - | Emergency management reported 2 to 3 inches of water over Hwy 67 in northern Hill County. |
| May 2015 | Flood | Covington | - | Hill County Sheriff's Department reported that the 200 block of County Road 1418 near Covington, TX was partially washed out. |
| December 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Covington | - | A large tree was blown down by high winds. |
| December 1998 | Flash Flood | Covington | - | Thunderstorm rains caused county roads to be closed due to high water. |
| May 1993 | Tornado (F0) | Covington | - | Tornado reported by DPS. |
| April 2011 | Hail | Covington | - | no account filed |
| February 2008 | Hail | Covington | - | no account filed |
| December 2002 | Hail | Covington | - | no account filed |
| March 2000 | Hail | Covington | - | no account filed |
| April 1995 | Hail | Covington | - | no account filed |
| April 1995 | Hail | Covington | - | no account filed |
| March 1994 | Hail | Covington | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Covington | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q978665 | 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 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.






