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Cove is a small city in Chambers County on the western shore of Trinity Bay, about 35 miles east of Houston, covering just 1.2 square miles at the junction of Farm Road 565 and Interstate 10.

Cove had a population of 525 at the 2020 census, up from 510 in 2010 and 323 in 2000, though it was actually larger back in 1980, when 645 people lived there.

The community was originally called Winfree's Cove, after pioneer settler A. B. J. Winfree, and took its name from its sheltered, protected location on Trinity Bay.

Chambers County's first cotton gin was operating at Cove by 1871 under William Icet, whose family also ran a sawmill in the settlement.

Cove had about 150 residents by 1920, and its post office operated from 1885 into the 1940s.

In 1824, Joseph Lawrence, reputed to have been a member of Jean Lafitte's privateering band, settled nearby on what became known as Lawrence's Island.

Cove became a city only after a legal fight over annexation: 84 residents petitioned to join Beach City in September 1970, Beach City annexed Cove that November, Baytown sued in 1971, and Beach City finally released its claim in 1973.

The City of Cove was officially incorporated on May 23, 1973, with Leroy Stevens as its first mayor.

At the 2000 census Cove had 125 households and 91 families, and the town sits on the west side of Old River Lake, an arm of the Trinity River.