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Kingston, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Kingston Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48741. The Survey maps it on the Kingston quadrangle. 399 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 804 feet above sea level.

Kingston within Tuscola County

Population over time

2 figures

Kingston fell from 440 to 399 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.

YearPeople Change
2010440
2020399-41 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

5 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Kingston between 1994 and 2019, burning about 7 acres in total. 2 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
Natural2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1

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
22 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesKINGSTON FIRE/RESCUE 2018078 - 2018
10 April 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesKINGSTON FIRE/RESCUE 2019062 - 2019
1 April 1994Debris and open burning2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 March 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesKINGSTON FIRE/RESCUE 2019051 - 2019
14 December 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesKINGSTON FIRE/RESCUE 2019207 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tuscola County

Storms near this place

26 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kingston in 26 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 16 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 2 tornado. 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 2006Thunderstorm WindKingston$15,000Thunderstorm downburst winds destroyed a barn near Kingston. The owner described seeing what looked like a funnel cloud prior to taking cover in the basement. When she came back up she reported her barn was gone. It was determined that the damage was caused by a microburst with windspeeds estimated between 60 and 70 MPH. Property damage was estimated at $15K.
September 2010Thunderstorm WindKingston$10,000Numerous trees and power lines reported down.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindKingston$10,000no account filed
July 2016Thunderstorm WindKingston$5,000Large trees and power lines reported blown down.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindKingston$1,000Multiple trees were reported blown down.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindKingston-Trees reported down.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindKingston-Multiple large trees reported down.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindKingston-Several trees reported down around the Kingston Area.
August 2017Tornado (EF0)Kingston-Sporadic minor tree and crop damage along a path from Clothier Road between Denhoff and Brief Roads to Northeast of the intersection of Marton Road (Tuscola/Sanilac county line) and Sanilac Road (M46). Greatest observed damage was the removal of roofing material from an outbuilding near the corner of Marton and Sanilac Roads, which is consistent with winds of approximately 75 MPH (EF0). Additional minor tree damage was observed along the damage path.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindKingston-Three trees reported blown down.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindKingston-Trees were reported blown down.
October 2006Thunderstorm WindKingston-A trained spotter estimated wind gusts at 60 MPH.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindKingston-Local law enforcement reported trees and wires blown down.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindKingston-Large trees limbs were reported blown down.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindKingston-Tuscola County Central Dispatch reported several large trees blown down.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindKingston-Trained spotters reported several trees blown down.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindKingston-Numerous large trees were downed in Unionville. Numerous two to three-inch diameter trees were blown down three miles east of Kingston.
July 2008HailKingston-no account filed
July 2008HailKingston-no account filed
June 2005HailKingston-no account filed
August 2003HailKingston-no account filed
June 2002HailKingston-no account filed
May 1999Tornado (F0)Kingston-no account filed
May 1998HailKingston-no account filed
August 1998HailKingston-no account filed
May 1997HailKingston-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tuscola 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
Wilmot3.4 miles10
East Dayton5.3 miles9
Dayton6.3 miles9
Daytona Branch6.4 miles9
Deford6.8 miles8
Silverwood7.1 miles9
Mayville10.3 miles9
Ellington12.0 miles8

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 Q2064988The 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 629726. 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.

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.