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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.

Kingston within Caldwell County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Kingston 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.

YearPeople Change
2010348
2020290-58 (-17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

6 since 1995

Regional 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/undetermined3
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
8 April 1995Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
7 April 1995Debris and open burning10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
12 March 1995Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
26 November 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
2 November 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
19 November 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Caldwell County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bridgewater QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Everett Qsy # 6Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Caldwell County

Storms near this place

25 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 1993HailKingston$50,000Numerous 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 1996Thunderstorm WindKingston$5,000no account filed
April 1995HailKingston$5,000no account filed
March 2025Thunderstorm WindKingston-Damaged out buildings and roof blown off machine shed.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindKingston-Emergency management reported 60 mph wind gust.
May 2015Flash FloodKingston-Highway 13 just south of Kingston is impassible and closed due to high water.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindKingston-A spotter estimated 60 mph winds.
April 2010Thunderstorm WindKingston-Winds were estimated up to 60 mph.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindKingston-Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindKingston-Thunderstorm winds were estimated to 60 mph.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindKingston-Four to six inch tree limbs, were reported to have been snapped off.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindKingston-60 mph winds were reported with a thunderstorms at Kingston.
March 2022HailKingston-no account filed
September 2019HailKingston-no account filed
July 2014HailKingston-no account filed
April 2011HailKingston-no account filed
March 2011HailKingston-no account filed
May 2009HailKingston-no account filed
June 2008HailKingston-no account filed
June 2008HailKingston-no account filed
April 2006HailKingston-no account filed
August 2005Thunderstorm WindKingston-no account filed
April 2003HailKingston-no account filed
March 2000HailKingston-no account filed
April 1995HailKingston-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Caldwell 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
Bonanza3.5 miles11
Far West5.3 miles14
Kerr5.5 miles14
Shoal5.6 miles11
Mirabile5.8 miles14
Polo6.3 miles14
New York6.6 miles11
Barwick6.6 miles14

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 Q969092The 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.