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.
Population over time
2 figuresKingston 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 440 | |
| 2020 | 399 | -41 (-9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 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.
- 1954 USGS Flint quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Flint quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Kingston quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Flint quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Flint quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
5 since 1994Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | KINGSTON FIRE/RESCUE 2018078 - 2018 |
| 10 April 2019 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | KINGSTON FIRE/RESCUE 2019062 - 2019 |
| 1 April 1994 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 29 March 2019 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | KINGSTON FIRE/RESCUE 2019051 - 2019 |
| 14 December 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | KINGSTON FIRE/RESCUE 2019207 - 2019 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
26 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kingston | $15,000 | Thunderstorm 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 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kingston | $10,000 | Numerous trees and power lines reported down. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kingston | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kingston | $5,000 | Large trees and power lines reported blown down. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kingston | $1,000 | Multiple trees were reported blown down. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kingston | - | Trees reported down. |
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kingston | - | Multiple large trees reported down. |
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kingston | - | Several trees reported down around the Kingston Area. |
| August 2017 | Tornado (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 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kingston | - | Three trees reported blown down. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kingston | - | Trees were reported blown down. |
| October 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kingston | - | A trained spotter estimated wind gusts at 60 MPH. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kingston | - | Local law enforcement reported trees and wires blown down. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kingston | - | Large trees limbs were reported blown down. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kingston | - | Tuscola County Central Dispatch reported several large trees blown down. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kingston | - | Trained spotters reported several trees blown down. |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kingston | - | Numerous large trees were downed in Unionville. Numerous two to three-inch diameter trees were blown down three miles east of Kingston. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Kingston | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Kingston | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Kingston | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Kingston | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Kingston | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Kingston | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Kingston | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Hail | Kingston | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Kingston | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wilmot | 3.4 miles | 10 | |
| East Dayton | 5.3 miles | 9 | |
| Dayton | 6.3 miles | 9 | |
| Daytona Branch | 6.4 miles | 9 | |
| Deford | 6.8 miles | 8 | |
| Silverwood | 7.1 miles | 9 | |
| Mayville | 10.3 miles | 9 | |
| Ellington | 12.0 miles | 8 |
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 | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2064988 | 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 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.




