[4] This site was originally called Winfree's Cove, after an early pioneer settler named A.

Nine years later, Icet sold the gin and ran a shipyard with the help of his two sons until 1915.

In the 1970s there were rumors that Baytown, 13 miles (21 km) to the southwest, intended to annex the community.

On September 22, 1970, 84 residents sent a petition to nearby Beach City to annex the community.

On November 24, 1970, Beach City annexed Cove, an area bounded generally on the west by FM-2354, on the east by the Old and Lost Rivers, on the south by Lawrence Road, and on the north by a line just north of FM-565.

In 1971, Baytown sued Beach City in an attempt to stop the annexation of Cove.

As of the 2020 United States census, there were 525 people, 170 households, and 128 families residing in the city.

The city is zoned to Barbers Hill Independent School District in Mont Belvieu.