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Kingston, Illinois

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Beverly Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62347. The Survey maps it on the Richfield quadrangle. It stands 810 feet above sea level.

Kingston within Adams County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

12 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Kingston between 2009 and 2015, burning about 63 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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 burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Arson/incendiarism1
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
13 July 2009Arson/incendiarism10 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesKLINE
4 April 2013Debris and open burning4.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesREADIN
4 April 2013Debris and open burning6.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesHENSON
27 April 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources4272015
7 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesBOONE
31 March 2015Debris and open burning3.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources3312015
28 March 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources3282015
23 March 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources3232015

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adams County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Kingston: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Richfield Plant #12 & QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Adams County

Storms near this place

3 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kingston in 3 storm reports between 2006 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
May 2025Thunderstorm WindKingston-Thunderstorm winds downed a tree and branches onto the roadway near the intersection of State Highway 104 and East 2400th Street southeast of Liberty.
April 2013Thunderstorm WindKingston-Thunderstorm winds blew off part of the roof of a large shed on the southwest side of Kingston.
March 2006HailKingston-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Adams 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
Beverly2.5 miles11
Chestline4.1 miles11
Richfield4.7 miles11
Liberty6.1 miles11
Spring Valley6.1 miles11
Plainville8.6 miles11
Kellerville9.3 miles11
Adams9.6 miles11

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 Q4220757The 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 411517. 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.