Kingston, Missouri
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Kingston Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64650. It stands on Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hamilton West quadrangle. 290 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 889 feet above sea level.
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
Caldwell County Courthouselisted 1972
Far Westlisted 1970
Population over time
2 figuresKingston fell from 348 to 290 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 | 348 | |
| 2020 | 290 | -58 (-17%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 14 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.
- 1924 USGS Polo quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS Hamilton West quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Saint Joseph quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
6 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Kingston between 1995 and 1999, burning about 30 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 April 1995 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 7 April 1995 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 12 March 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 26 November 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 2 November 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 19 November 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Kingston: 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bridgewater Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Everett Qsy # 6 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
25 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kingston in 25 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 14 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 1993 | Hail | Kingston | $50,000 | Numerous windows were broken by baseball-size hail in Kingston. Heavy rains also flooded County Roads U and A. Shoal Creek overtopped levees flooding approximately 10,000 acres at a lost of over $2 million. |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kingston | $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 1995 | Hail | Kingston | $5,000 | no account filed |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kingston | - | Damaged out buildings and roof blown off machine shed. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kingston | - | Emergency management reported 60 mph wind gust. |
| May 2015 | Flash Flood | Kingston | - | Highway 13 just south of Kingston is impassible and closed due to high water. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kingston | - | A spotter estimated 60 mph winds. |
| April 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kingston | - | Winds were estimated up to 60 mph. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kingston | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kingston | - | Thunderstorm winds were estimated to 60 mph. |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kingston | - | Four to six inch tree limbs, were reported to have been snapped off. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kingston | - | 60 mph winds were reported with a thunderstorms at Kingston. |
| March 2022 | Hail | Kingston | - | no account filed |
| September 2019 | Hail | Kingston | - | no account filed |
| July 2014 | Hail | Kingston | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Kingston | - | no account filed |
| March 2011 | Hail | Kingston | - | no account filed |
| May 2009 | Hail | Kingston | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Kingston | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Kingston | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Kingston | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kingston | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Kingston | - | no account filed |
| March 2000 | Hail | Kingston | - | no account filed |
| April 1995 | 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.
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 Q969092 | 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 720629. 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.






