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Kingston, Arkansas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1985. It stands in South Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72740. It stands on Maxwell Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kingston quadrangle. 97 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,365 feet above sea level.

Kingston within Madison County

On record in Kingston

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 12 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

30 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Kingston between 1998 and 2020, burning about 1,745 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Arson/incendiarism9
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
29 August 1998Debris and open burning10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 April 2014Debris and open burning20 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionMAD14293469
4 April 2002Arson/incendiarism40 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 April 1999Equipment and vehicle use63 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 April 2001Debris and open burning4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 April 2003Debris and open burning12 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Kingston: 2 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
B.F.Hodges PropertyManganesePast Producer
Fannie A YoungLead, ZincProspect
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Madison County

Storms near this place

27 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kingston in 27 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 13 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 3 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1994Thunderstorm WindKingston$50,000Thunderstorm winds blew down some trees.
April 2025HailKingston$25,000Golf ball size hail damaged homes and vehicles.
February 2012HailKingston$25,000no account filed
May 2021Thunderstorm WindKingston$5,000Strong thunderstorm wind damaged the roof of a barn, and snapped large tree limbs.
February 2001Thunderstorm WindKingston$100Thunderstorm winds blew down several large tree limbs.
April 2001Thunderstorm WindKingston$100Thunderstorm winds blew down large tree limbs.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindKingston-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down a few trees and numerous large tree limbs.
May 2011Flash FloodKingston-Locally heavy rainfall resulted in flooding of county roads south of Kingston.
May 2010Flash FloodKingston-Locally heavy rain resulted in excessive runoff and caused a river to flow out of its banks around Kingston.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindKingston-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down large trees.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindKingston-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindKingston-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down a few large trees.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindKingston-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down numerous trees.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindKingston-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down trees.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindKingston-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew a tree down.
December 2001Flash FloodKingston-Heavy thunderstorm rains caused water to flow over a county road five miles south of Kingston.
April 2026HailKingston-no account filed
April 2022HailKingston-no account filed
March 2013HailKingston-no account filed
February 2012HailKingston-no account filed
March 2010HailKingston-no account filed
May 2009HailKingston-no account filed
May 2003HailKingston-no account filed
May 2002Thunderstorm WindKingston-no account filed
May 2000HailKingston-no account filed
June 1999HailKingston-no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindKingston-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Madison County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Loy3.1 miles12
Purdy4.1 miles12
Wharton6.2 miles13
Weathers6.3 miles9
Truth (historical)6.3 miles12
Reynolds6.4 miles9
Marble7.2 miles13
Townsley (historical)8.7 miles9

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on KingstonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6413422The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 50874. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.