Home › Virginia › Covington city

Covington city, Virginia

Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

4historic places

—earliest paper

1952formed

5,737pop. 2020

1cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 4 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1991. Most listings are in or near Covington (Independent City), Covington.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Virginia is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Covington city titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

1 of 4 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

4 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Covington High School	Covington (Independent City)	Building	2008
Covington Historic District	Covington (Independent City)	District	1991
First Baptist Church of Covington, Virginia	Covington (Independent City)	Building	2002
Rivermont School	Covington	Building	2022

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Covington (Ic) was formed in 1952 (1952-12-20) from unknown / original county.

Covington made an independent city from ALLEGHANY.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Covington city population from 1960 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1960	1980	2000	2020
11,062	9,063	6,303	5,737

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

1 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 1 of 1 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Cedar Hill Cemetery	37.77373	-79.98283

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

HMdb link

Marker text and photos from the Historical Marker Database (HMdb) are not embedded here. HMdb allows non-commercial reuse with attribution, but commercial/compensated use needs written permission; this is a commercial site, so we only link out.

Search HMdb for Covington city County, Virginia

Terms: hmdb.org/copyright.asp. Linking is encouraged by HMdb.