About Covington, Washington

Covington is a King County city of 20,777 people, lying about 20 miles to the southeast of Seattle. The land was first called Jenkins Prairie. When the Northern Pacific needed a short link between Kanasket and Auburn, it sent a surveyor named Richard Covington to plan the route, now known as the Palmer Cutoff. Railroad telegrams used the code name "Rodent Frugality" for the line. A stop was named for the surveyor, and the settlement soon took the stop's name. The cutoff was done in 1900, with a 2,850-foot passing track and a bunkhouse for 24 men at Covington.

By the early 1990s Covington was turning into a suburb, and in 1992 King County named it an "urban activity center" for future growth. Residents wanted to plan that growth themselves, so in 1994 they started a signature drive to form a city. They lost a fight with Kent over Lake Meridian, which joined Kent instead. Voters approved the new city on November 6, 1996, the same day Maple Valley was created, and Covington became a city on August 31, 1997, with about 12,200 residents.

“J. A. Bunce is madder than a wet hen. First, because he did not kill Tracy when he had him so close by, and, second, because [Sheriff] Cudihee did not send reinforcements last night.”
Seattle Daily Times, 1902
  • The Bereiter Mill of 1901Emil Bereiter and John W. Sandstrom built the area's first mill in 1901 where Soos and Jenkins creeks meet; it became the Covington Lumber Company. A 30-foot dam made a log pond, with a salmon ladder the Game Department required. The mill cut 6,000 board feet an hour, plus shingles. More than one hundred workers lived in more than thirty small houses, a bunkhouse and a cookhouse, and Japanese workers lived across Soos Creek.
  • An outlaw passes throughHarry Tracy escaped from the Oregon State Penitentiary and headed east through the area in 1902. After raiding a home near Kent for supplies, he reportedly traded shots with a few men near the Covington Mill Company. A posse rode out the next day with a Seattle Daily Times reporter, but it arrived too late. Tracy got as far as Lincoln County, where he died in a shootout that August.
  • Strawberries after a dry springAs the timber ran out, dairy farmers known as Soos Creek stump ranchers grazed cattle on the cleared land, and a cheese factory followed after World War I. In the dry spring of 1922, canals from Jenkins Creek were tested on 1,250 acres near Covington. The Seattle Daily Times reported that irrigated strawberries kept bearing two weeks after unirrigated fields were done, and berry farming grew more popular with irrigation.
  • A schoolhouse with two roomsMill carpenters built Covington's first school, a small room with one teacher for every grade. Around 1912 a larger school went up, with a little room for grades one through four and another for grades five through seven. After the schools joined the Meridian and then Kent districts, the building became the Covington Community Center, which burned down in 1976.

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Names on the Covington map

Every name below is printed on this map. Look for your street, your school, the park where you played, or the pond down the road.

Places and landmarks3

  • City of Covington City Hall
  • Timberlane
  • Meridian Heights

Streets and roads112

  • Southeast 272nd Street
  • 191st Place Southeast
  • Southeast 258th Street
  • Southeast 262nd Street
  • Southeast Wax Road
  • Southeast 256th Street
  • 180th Avenue Southeast
  • Southeast 260th Street
  • 168th Place Southeast
  • 164th Avenue Southeast
  • Southeast 264th Street
  • North Road
  • Southeast 240th Street
  • Southeast 268th Street
  • Southeast 261st Street
  • Southeast 251st Street
  • Southeast 265th Street
  • 204th Avenue Southeast
  • Southeast 267th Place
  • 148th Avenue Southeast
  • 156th Avenue Southeast
  • Covington Way Southeast
  • Southeast 254th Place
  • Southeast 267th Street
  • 156th Place Southeast
  • 173rd Avenue Southeast
  • Southeast 279th Place
  • 170th Place Southeast
  • Southeast 271st Street
  • Frontage Road
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  • 175th Way Southeast
  • Southeast 269th Street
  • 185th Place Southeast
  • 199th Avenue Southeast
  • Southeast 266th Street
  • 200th Avenue Southeast
  • 184th Avenue Southeast
  • 172nd Avenue Southeast
  • 152nd Avenue Southeast
  • Southeast 270th Place
  • Southeast 244th Street
  • Southeast 254th Street
  • Southeast 244th Place
  • Southeast 247th Street
  • 160th Avenue Southeast
  • Southeast 263rd Place
  • Southeast 264th Place
  • 192nd Avenue Southeast
  • Southeast 252nd Place
  • Southeast 262nd Place
  • 188th Avenue Southeast
  • Southeast 259th Street
  • 196th Avenue Southeast
  • Timberlane Way Southeast
  • Southeast 258th Place
  • 171st Avenue Southeast
  • Southeast 270th Street
  • Southeast 260th Place
  • Southeast 259th Place
  • 167th Place Southeast
  • Southeast 257th Street
  • Southeast 266th Place
  • 183rd Avenue Southeast
  • 193rd Place Southeast
  • 184th Place Southeast
  • 199th Place Southeast
  • Southeast 253rd Place
  • 161st Place Southeast
  • 176th Avenue Southeast
  • 186th Place Southeast
  • Timberlane Drive Southeast
  • 171st Place Southeast
  • Southeast 276th Street
  • 206th Avenue Southeast
  • Southeast 277th Place
  • Southeast 252nd Street
  • 177th Place Southeast
  • 210th Avenue Southeast
  • 170th Avenue Southeast
  • 208th Avenue Southeast
  • 172nd Place Southeast
  • 170th Way Southeast
  • 151st Place Southeast
  • 212th Avenue Southeast
  • 153rd Avenue Southeast
  • Southeast 249th Place
  • Southeast 268th Place
  • 207th Place Southeast
  • Southeast 256th Place
  • 163rd Avenue Southeast
  • Southeast 263rd Street
  • 201st Avenue Southeast
  • 166th Place Southeast
  • 159th Avenue Southeast
  • 203rd Avenue Southeast
  • Southeast 257th Place
  • Southeast 246th Street
  • 150th Place Southeast
  • 159th Place Southeast
  • Southeast 273rd Place
  • Southeast 245th Place
  • 195th Place Southeast
  • Southeast 261st Place
  • Southeast 261st Court
  • 211th Avenue Southeast
  • 206th Place Southeast
  • Southeast 265th Place
  • Southeast 265th Court
  • 209th Loop Southeast
  • Southeast 241st Place
  • 196th Place Southeast
  • Southeast 246th Place

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