BlockKingston Mines, Illinois
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Timber Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61539. It stands on Little Lamarsh Creek. The Survey maps it on the Glasford quadrangle. 266 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 463 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresKingston Mines fell from 302 to 266 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 302 | |
| 2020 | 266 | -36 (-12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1930 USGS Glasford quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1948 USGS Glasford quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Glasford quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
- 1996 USGS Glasford quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
2,116 words on this townshipThe History of Peoria County, Illinois. Containing a History of the Northwest--history of Illinois--history of the County, Its Early Settlement, Growth, Development, Resources, Etc., Etc. .., published 1880 names this settlement in its chapter on Timber Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
ROBINSOX DRUCILLA, farmer, Sec. 25, P. O. Kingston Mines, was born in Mason county, Ky., December 18, 1816. Immigrated to Peoria county with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Clifton, who located in Peoria in 1835, and in 1836 came to Kingston where she has resided since. She married Mr. William Egman, son of Isaac Egman ; he was a native of Ohio, and his father a native of New Jersey ; and came to the county in 1824, among the earliest settlers. Mr. E. died November 12, 1S42, having been the father of three children, all of which are dead. One died in the Union army. Mrs. Egman married Frederick J. I!usl> in 1844, wlx' died about four months afterwards. There was one child by this marriage, which is also dead. Mrs. Bush married Thomas Robinson, a native of Kngtand. in 1S49; he died February, 1861, leaving four children - three girls and one boy. She has 150 acres of land in this township and eighty acres in Ilollis, valued at $10,000. She is a member of the Methodist Church.
Passage source: The History of Peoria County, Illinois. Containing a History of the Northwest--history of Illinois--history of the County, Its Early Settlement, Growth, Development, Resources, Etc., Etc. .., published 1880.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Timber Township - it names this place 3 more 3 times.
Fires near this place
2 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Kingston Mines in 2018, burning about 1 acre in total. None started naturally. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 2018235 |
| 23 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 2018-76 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Kingston Mines: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elzie Hurley Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Pekin South Sand | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mapleton | 2.1 miles | 18 | |
| Glasford | 2.5 miles | 15 | |
| Lancaster | 3.9 miles | 15 | |
| Lake Camelot | 5.2 miles | 19 | |
| Hollis | 6.0 miles | 18 | |
| Tuscarora | 6.4 miles | 18 | |
| Smithville | 7.2 miles | 16 | |
| Bartonville | 8.9 miles | 19 |
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 Kingston Mines | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2586245 | The 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 1699777. 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.