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Covington is a village in Miami County, Ohio, in Newberry Township, and is part of the Dayton metropolitan area.

The village was incorporated as Covington in 1835 on the site of Fort Rowdy, a frontier fort built in 1793.

Covington was laid out in 1816 and was known at different times as Friendship, Newberry and Stillwater; a post office called Stillwater opened in 1825 and the name was changed to Covington in 1836.

Gilbert D. Adams was elected Covington's first mayor in April 1835, and that July the village adopted a constitution and passed its first seven ordinances.

The Dayton and Covington Turnpike, completed in 1841, gave the village a daily mail and stagecoach route and made Newberry Township the first township in Miami County with three turnpikes.

Covington's population was 2,548 at the 2020 census, little changed from 2,584 in 2010, when the census counted 1,037 households in the village.

Covington covers 1.35 square miles, and portions of its western border follow the Stillwater River and Greenville Creek.

Every Labor Day weekend, Covington Community Park hosts the Fort Rowdy Gathering, a living-history re-enactment of a late-1700s frontier trading village named for the fort that once stood here.

Covington High School's teams are the Buccaneers - the 'Buccs' - whose football program was revived in 1947 after 37 years without a team; the 1952 squad, nicknamed 'The Thundering Herd,' posted the school's first unbeaten, untied season.

Covington lay in the path of totality for the total solar eclipse of April 8, 2024.