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Covington is a small city in north-central Hill County, at the intersection of State Highway 171 and FM 67, about fourteen miles north of Hillsboro near the county's northern boundary.

Covington was founded in the spring of 1852 by Colonel James Jackson Gathings, who had come to Texas from North Carolina and Mississippi.

Gathings secured about 10,000 acres of land in what is now Hill County and set aside 100 of those acres for the new town, which he named for his wife's family.

By 1870 Covington had grown to nearly 500 residents — considerably more than live there today.

In the early 1860s, brothers James and Philip Gathings founded Gathings College in Covington, an early college on the Texas frontier.

Covington's post office opened in 1855, only three years after the town was founded.

The 2020 census counted 261 people in Covington; back in 2000, its 282 residents lived in 111 households.

Covington covers about 0.8 square miles.

The Covington Independent School District runs a single campus serving students from pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade, and its teams are the Owls, who play six-man football.

Covington ISD nearly vanished — in 1961 a motion was made to consolidate the district with Itasca ISD — but the district survived and still operates its own school today.