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Covington is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Covington Township, Baraga County, in Michigan's western Upper Peninsula, located on US 141 near the junction with M-28.

Covington was first settled by French-Canadians around 1885 and was named for the hometown of its first postmaster, John Lyons — Covington, Kentucky.

Covington's post office was established on October 17, 1895, and the community was a stop along the Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railway.

Finnish settlers began arriving in Covington in 1898 and eventually outnumbered the French and Swedish settlers, turning to farming potatoes, corn, and wheat and pasturing milk cows as logging declined.

The first Finnish organization in Covington was a temperance society called Onnen Satama, meaning "Harbor of Luck," organized on November 28, 1899.

Covington's Bethany Evangelical Lutheran Church, founded by Finnish Lutherans in 1900, has an interior decorated in an Art Deco-meets-Finland style designed with help from the Chicago Art Institute, and it is now a tourist attraction that still holds an active congregation.

Covington is best known today for its Finnish Music Festival, held around the Fourth of July each year and featuring musicians playing Finnish-inspired music on Finnish instruments.

The Covington CDP had a population of just 99 people at the 2020 census, making it one of the smallest census-designated places in Michigan.

Covington is also home to the UP Made Artist Market, a project of the non-profit Community Women's Group that is open from May to October.