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Covington has been the county seat of Fountain County since 1826, the year the county was formed, and pioneer Isaac Coleman platted the town with the seat of justice in mind, donating blocks for a courthouse, a seminary, and a church.

Covington's first courthouse was a two-story frame building raised in 1827, and although an 1831 state act called for moving the county seat, Covington fought off the challenge and kept it.

The current Fountain County Courthouse in Covington is an Art Deco landmark built in 1936–37 as a Public Works Administration project, faced with Indiana limestone and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

A 1940 Indianapolis Star assessment called the Fountain County Courthouse 'the most significant example of a New Deal art and architecture project in Indiana.'

Inside the courthouse, some 2,500 square feet of murals painted in 1939 by local artists under the direction of Covington-born artist Eugene Savage depict the settlement and development of Fountain County and the Wabash River valley.

Eugene Savage (1883–1978), who directed the courthouse murals, was a nationally known painter who taught at the Yale School of Art for 28 years and painted murals at Columbia, Purdue, and Yale.

The 2020 census counted 2,668 people in Covington in 1,153 households.

Covington sits on the east bank of the Wabash River in western Fountain County, where U.S. Route 136 crosses the river and Interstate 74 passes just south of town.

Covington has six listings on the National Register of Historic Places, including its Carnegie library, the Courthouse Square Historic District, the Residential Historic District, and the William C.B. Sewell House.

The Covington Community School Corporation runs an elementary school, a middle school, and Covington Community High School, all located within the city.