COVINGTON, a town in the western part of Virginia, U.S.A., in the heart of the Alleghenies; the county seat of Alle gheny county. It is on Federal highway 6o and the Chesapeake and Ohio railway. The population in 192o was 5,623, of whom 1,136 were negroes, and was 6,538 in 1930 by the Federal census, including suburbs. It has a pulp and paper plant employing 1,450 men, a silk-mill and several other factories. The town was settled about 1822, and was incorporated in 1842. A city-manager form of government was adopted in 1925.