Editing Covington, Tennessee

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'''Covington''' is a city in central [[Tipton County, Tennessee]], United States. Covington is the second largest city and [[county seat]] of Tipton County.<ref name="GR6">{{cite web|url=http://www.naco.org/Counties/Pages/FindACounty.aspx |access-date=2011-06-07 |title=Find a County |publisher=National Association of Counties |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110531210815/http://www.naco.org/Counties/Pages/FindACounty.aspx |archive-date=May 31, 2011 }}</ref> The city is located in [[West Tennessee]], {{convert|12|mi|km|abbr=on}} east of the [[Mississippi River]]. The city's population was 9,038 at the time of the [[2010 U.S. Census]].<ref>Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development, [https://www.tn.gov/ecd/pdf/StateProfile/2011certpop.pdf Certified Population of Tennessee Incorporated Municipalities and Counties] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140630192652/https://www.tn.gov/ecd/pdf/StateProfile/2011certpop.pdf |date=2014-06-30 }}, State of Tennessee official website, 14 July 2011. Retrieved: 6 December 2013.</ref> Located {{convert|42|mi|km|abbr=on}} northeast of [[Memphis, Tennessee|Memphis]], Covington is part of the [[Memphis, Tennessee Metropolitan Area]].

==History==
The Covington area was originally inhabited by [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Native Americans]] of various tribes. They used the nearby [[Mississippi River]] as a trading route among numerous American Indian nations, who for more than 1,000 years conducted continent-deep trading between the upper river and the Southeast. Evidence of such trading has been found in materials and items excavated from numerous archeological sites.

Tipton County is one of five present-day counties of the [[State of Tennessee]] that border the [[Mississippi River]]. The first Europeans to explore this area were attached to the noted expedition of the [[French Canadian]]s [[Jacques Marquette]] and [[Louis Joliet]] in 1673. This expedition went down the Mississippi from present-day [[Wisconsin]] to the mouth of the [[Arkansas River]], and then back upriver to [[Lake Michigan]]. The Arkansas River represents part of the border between present-day [[Arkansas]] and [[Mississippi]]. It is likely that de Soto and his men passed near here circa 1541.

During the 19th century, because this entire area consists of fertile [[floodplain]]s and a climate of long, hot summers, and adequate rainfall, the Covington area and the rest of [[West Tennessee]] were developed for cotton [[Plantations in the American South|plantation]]s. This became the primary commodity crop across the South in the 19th century, generating great wealth for many large planters. [[Africa]]n-American [[slavery in the United States|slave]]s were brought to Western Tennessee by planters relocating here, or forced here by sale in the domestic slave trade. West Tennessee was the center of large-scale slavery in Tennessee, and Memphis had a major slave market.  Planters and farmers in [[Middle Tennessee]] also held slaves, although in fewer number. Farmers in the [[East Tennessee|eastern part of the state]] mostly developed small subsistence farms and held few slaves.

During the [[American Civil War|Civil War]], [[Union Army]] and [[Union Navy]] fought to gain control of strategic areas along the Mississippi River in order to control its traffic and split the [[Confederate States of America|Confederate States]] in two. The [[Confederate Army]] resisted, but the Union Army defeated and occupied forces in Tipton and other counties of Tennessee and northeastern [[Arkansas]]. The war ended early in the Covington area, and Tennessee was occupied by Union forces from 1862.

Starting in the 1870s during the Reconstruction era, the state legislature supported railroad construction in the region, to improve transporting crops to market. The ''Memphis and Paducah Railroad'' completed its tracks to Covington in July 1873. The first telegraph line between Memphis and Covington was completed in 1882. In 1894, electric power was installed in Covington. The city established a municipal water system in 1898 to provide residents with [[tap water|pure drinking water]].

Twentieth-century improvements included street paving in 1922. Since 1929, a natural gas company has operated to provide cooking gas and wintertime heating to homes and business in Covington. The time that telephone service was installed in Covington is not known.

Following the invention of the automobile, during the 1910s and 1920s the United States began to construct more intercity paved highways in various regions of the county. These developed into the [[U.S. Highway System|U.S. Numbered Highway System]], and [[U.S. Route 51]] was established. This highway connects Memphis and points south with Chicago, via Covington and [[Cairo, Illinois]]. Covington is a small town with access to a major north–south highway of commerce and travel.

Both black and white tenant farmers and sharecroppers in [[West Tennessee]] struggled with poverty as a result of lower cotton prices during the [[Great Depression]], which added to social tensions between ethnic groups. Whites maintained their political supremacy, having [[Disfranchisement after Reconstruction era|disenfranchised most blacks]] at the turn of the 20th century. After an armed altercation during a July 1937 police raid on an illegal gambling site, Albert Gooden was arrested as a suspect in the death of a sheriff's deputy. Because of lynching threats, the sheriff took the African-American man to be held in custody in Memphis. A month later, when the sheriff was secretly transporting Gooden back to Covington to stand trial, his car was stopped on an isolated road. Masked men took Gooden away. His body was found the next day, half in the river and shot more than 30 times. The governor offered a $5000 reward, but no one was prosecuted for the lynching. Gooden was the first man to be lynched in Tipton County since the late 19th century; his was one of several lynchings in the nation that year. It was covered by ''[[The New York Times]]'' and other major newspapers.<ref name="azikiwe">[http://panafricannews.blogspot.com/2006/10/two-case-studies-in-race-terror-during.html Abayomi Azikiwe, "Two Case Studies in Race Terror During the Great Depression in Southwest Tennessee"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170203082100/http://panafricannews.blogspot.com/2006/10/two-case-studies-in-race-terror-during.html |date=2017-02-03 }}, ''Pambana Journal'', Winter 1998, [[Wayne State University]]</ref>

The [[South Main Street Historic District (Covington, Tennessee)|South Main Street Historic District]] in Covington includes about 50 houses from the late 19th and the early 20th centuries, along with commercial structures of historic interest.<ref name=TipCtyGuide>
{{Cite journal
  | title = Covington-Tipton County Community Guide
  | place = Covington, Tennessee
  | publisher = Tipton County Chamber of Commerce 
  | year = 2005
  }}
</ref>

==Geography==
Covington is part of the [[Memphis, Tennessee Metropolitan Area]], and is located {{convert|42|mi|km|abbr=on}} northeast of that large city. [[U.S. Route 51]], a major north–south highway running between [[Mississippi]] and [[Illinois]], passes through the city.

According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], this town has a total area of {{convert|10.3|sqmi|km2}}, of which practically all of it is land.

Covington is situated on the southeastern edge of the [[New Madrid Seismic Zone]], an area judged by [[geologist]]s to have a high risk of [[earthquake]]s in the future.

===Climate===
The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters.  According to the [[Köppen Climate Classification]] system, Covington has a [[humid subtropical climate]], abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps.<ref>[http://www.weatherbase.com/weather/weather-summary.php3?s=801204&cityname=Covington%2C+Tennessee%2C+United+States+of+America&units= Climate Summary for Covington, Tennessee]</ref>

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 | Jan record high F  = 78
 | Feb record high F  = 81
 | Mar record high F  = 92
 | Apr record high F  = 92
 | May record high F  = 98
 | Jun record high F  = 105
 | Jul record high F  = 108
 | Aug record high F  = 108
 | Sep record high F  = 104
 | Oct record high F  = 97
 | Nov record high F  = 87
 | Dec record high F  = 79
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 | Jan high F = 46.3
 | Feb high F = 50.8
 | Mar high F = 60.1
 | Apr high F = 70.2
 | May high F = 78.7
 | Jun high F = 86.2
 | Jul high F = 89.0
 | Aug high F = 88.2
 | Sep high F = 82.7
 | Oct high F = 72.3
 | Nov high F = 59.5
 | Dec high F = 49.6
 | year high F = 69.5
 | Jan mean F = 37.4
 | Feb mean F = 41.1
 | Mar mean F = 49.8
 | Apr mean F = 59.2
 | May mean F = 68.3
 | Jun mean F = 76.1
 | Jul mean F = 79.1
 | Aug mean F = 77.7
 | Sep mean F = 71.4
 | Oct mean F = 60.4
 | Nov mean F = 49.0
 | Dec mean F = 40.6
 | year mean F = 59.2
 | Jan low F = 28.5
 | Feb low F = 31.5
 | Mar low F = 39.5
 | Apr low F = 48.2
 | May low F = 57.9
 | Jun low F = 66.0
 | Jul low F = 69.1
 | Aug low F = 67.2
 | Sep low F = 60.1
 | Oct low F = 48.6
 | Nov low F = 38.6
 | Dec low F = 31.6
 | year low F = 48.9
 | Jan record low F  = -15
 | Feb record low F  = -11
 | Mar record low F  = 7
 | Apr record low F  = 24
 | May record low F  = 32
 | Jun record low F  = 45
 | Jul record low F  = 49
 | Aug record low F  = 46
 | Sep record low F  = 33
 | Oct record low F  = 22
 | Nov record low F  = 6
 | Dec record low F  = -9
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 | Jan precipitation inch = 4.36
 | Feb precipitation inch = 4.64
 | Mar precipitation inch = 5.26
 | Apr precipitation inch = 5.34
 | May precipitation inch = 5.84
 | Jun precipitation inch = 4.27
 | Jul precipitation inch = 4.37
 | Aug precipitation inch = 3.58
 | Sep precipitation inch = 3.58
 | Oct precipitation inch = 3.79
 | Nov precipitation inch = 4.92
 | Dec precipitation inch = 5.82
 | year precipitation inch = 55.77
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 | Jan precipitation days  = 8.9
 | Feb precipitation days  = 8.0
 | Mar precipitation days  = 9.2
 | Apr precipitation days  = 8.9
 | May precipitation days  = 9.5
 | Jun precipitation days  = 8.7
 | Jul precipitation days  = 7.8
 | Aug precipitation days  = 6.0
 | Sep precipitation days  = 6.4
 | Oct precipitation days  = 6.9
 | Nov precipitation days  = 8.7
 | Dec precipitation days  = 9.6
 | year precipitation days = 98.6
 | Jan snow inch = 0.7
 | Feb snow inch = 0.6
 | Mar snow inch = 0.9
 | Apr snow inch = 0.0
 | May snow inch = 0.0
 | Jun snow inch = 0.0
 | Jul snow inch = 0.0
 | Aug snow inch = 0.0
 | Sep snow inch = 0.0
 | Oct snow inch = 0.0
 | Nov snow inch = 0.0
 | Dec snow inch = 0.2
 | year snow inch = 2.4
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|title = Summary of Monthly Normals 1991-2020
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==Demographics==
{{US Census population
|1850= 368
|1870= 447
|1880= 799
|1890= 1067
|1900= 2787
|1910= 2990
|1920= 3410
|1930= 3397
|1940= 3513
|1950= 4379
|1960= 5298
|1970= 5801
|1980= 6065
|1990= 7487
|2000= 8463
|2010= 9038
|2020= 8663
|footnote=Sources:<ref name="GR9">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census.html|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|access-date=2012-03-04|title=Census of Population and Housing: Decennial Censuses|archive-date=2021-07-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210701194652/https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=CensusPopEst>{{cite web|title=Incorporated Places and Minor Civil Divisions Datasets: Subcounty Resident Population Estimates: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2012|url=https://www.census.gov/popest/data/cities/totals/2012/SUB-EST2012.html|work=Population Estimates|publisher=U.S. Census Bureau|access-date=11 December 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130611010502/http://www.census.gov/popest/data/cities/totals/2012/SUB-EST2012.html|archive-date=June 11, 2013}}</ref><ref name="USCensusDecennial2020CenPopScriptOnly">{{cite web|url=https://api.census.gov/data/2020/dec/pl?get=P1_001N,NAME&for=place:*&in=state:47&key=5ccd0821c15d9f4520e2dcc0f8d92b2ec9336108|title=Census Population API|publisher=United States Census Bureau|accessdate=Oct 15, 2022|archive-date=February 13, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230213085226/https://api.census.gov/data/2020/dec/pl?get=P1_001N,NAME&for=place:*&in=state:47&key=5ccd0821c15d9f4520e2dcc0f8d92b2ec9336108|url-status=live}}</ref>
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===2020 census===
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|+Covington racial composition<ref>{{Cite web|title=Explore Census Data|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?g=1600000US4717680&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P2|access-date=2021-12-08|website=data.census.gov|archive-date=2021-12-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211208204703/https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?g=1600000US4717680&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P2|url-status=live}}</ref>
!Race
!Num.
!Perc.
|-
|[[White (U.S. Census)|White]] (non-Hispanic)
|3,881
|44.8%
|-
|[[African American (U.S. Census)|Black or African American]] (non-Hispanic)
|4,242
|48.97%
|-
|[[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]]
|18
|0.21%
|-
|[[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]]
|47
|0.54%
|-
|[[Pacific Islander (U.S. Census)|Pacific Islander]]
|2
|0.02%
|-
|[[Race (United States Census)|Other/Mixed]]
|322
|3.72%
|-
|[[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]]
|151
|1.74%
|}
As of the [[2020 United States census]], there were 8,663 people, 3,456 households, and 2,179 families residing in the city.

===2000 census===
As of the [[census]]<ref name="GR2" /> of 2000, there were 8,463 people, 3,199 households, and 2,136 families residing in the city. The population density was {{convert|822.1|PD/sqmi|PD/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}. There were 3,372 housing units at an average density of {{convert|327.6|/sqmi|/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}. The racial makeup of the city was 51.59% [[White (U.S. Census)|White]], 46.54% [[African American (U.S. Census)|African American]], 0.48% [[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]], 0.44% [[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]], 0.05% [[Pacific Islander (U.S. Census)|Pacific Islander]], 0.25% from [[Race (United States Census)|other races]], and 0.65% from two or more races. [[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]] of any race were 0.79% of the population.

There were 3,199 households, out of which 34.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 37.9% were [[Marriage|married couples]] living together, 25.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 33.2% were non-families. 29.9% of all households were made up of individuals, and 13.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.54 and the average family size was 3.17.

In the city, the population was spread out, with 29.7% under the age of 18, 10.3% from 18 to 24, 25.3% from 25 to 44, 19.3% from 45 to 64, and 15.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 33 years. For every 100 females, there were 79.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 70.8 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $24,684, and the median income for a family was $32,213. Males had a median income of $28,964 versus $20,938 for females. The [[per capita income]] for the city was $14,293. About 25.2% of families and 27.9% of the population were below the [[poverty line]], including 37.9% of those under age 18 and 34.1% of those age 65 or over.

==Arts and culture==
[[Image:Covington Veterans Memorial.jpg|thumb|[[Cannon]] in front of the Nature Center & Veteran's Memorial in Covington. Marker in the background shows [[Nathan Bedford Forrest]]'s last speech. (2007)]]

===Tipton County Museum===
The Tipton County Museum is located in Covington.  This museum displays and interprets artifacts from Tipton County's rich heritage. It also has a nature center depicting the unique ecosystem of West Tennessee.  Mountings of local animal species are kept there, and fragments of [[mastodon]] bone represent species alive during its ancient natural history. Adjacent to the museum, there is a 20-[[acre]] park, with a {{convert|0.5|mi|m|0}} walking trail. Natural woodland and a man-made [[wetland]] provide habitat to some of the smaller local species such as [[turtle]]s and [[bird]]s.

The Veterans Memorial in front of the museum commemorates the soldiers from the county who lost their lives in wars. This museum is closed on Sundays and Mondays, and admission to the museum and to the park is free.<ref name=TipCtyGuide/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://tiptonco.com/museum.htm |title=Tipton County Museum |access-date=2008-10-04 |publisher=Tipton County |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081006040911/http://tiptonco.com/museum.htm |archive-date=October 6, 2008 }}
</ref>

==Education==
Covington Public Schools are part of [[Tipton County Schools]]. The Tipton County School District has six elementary schools, one K-8 magnet school, three middle schools and three high schools.

Schools located in Covington include:
*Austin Peay Elementary School
*Crestview Elementary School
*Covington Integrated Arts Academy
*Crestview Middle School
*[[Covington High School (Covington, Tennessee)|Covington High School]]
*Tipton County Alternative Learning Center

Dr. John Combs is the Director of Schools.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tipton-county.com/|title=Tipton County Schools|publisher=Tipton County Schools|access-date=2012-06-22|archive-date=2012-06-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120620200006/http://www.tipton-county.com/|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Notable people==
* [[William F. Bringle]], US navy Admiral, Recipient of the [[Navy Cross]]
* [[Augustus Hill Garland]], [[List of Governors of Arkansas|11th]] [[Governor of Arkansas]] and [[United States Attorney General|Attorney General of the United States]]<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url= http://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=106|title= Washington|encyclopedia= The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture|access-date= August 17, 2012|archive-date= October 13, 2012|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20121013201815/http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=106|url-status= live}}</ref> Lawyer, & [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]]
* [[Isaac Hayes]] was born here; the composer and musician has been inducted in the [[Songwriter's Hall of Fame|Hall-of-Fame]], Played the voice of [[Chef (South Park)|Chef]] in [[South Park]]
* [[Harvey Hendrick]], former Baseball player and member of the New York Yankees first World Series championship team 1923, Died in Covington
* [[Leigh Snowden]], actress, is from Covington; her granddaughter was named Covington after her hometown.

==References==
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==External links==
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*[http://www.covingtontn.com Official website]
*{{Cite NIE|wstitle=Covington (Tennessee)|display=Covington. A town and the county-seat of Tipton County, Tenn.|short=x}}

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