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Kingston, Nevada

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Austin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89310. It lies near Blakeley Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Kingston quadrangle. 194 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,955 feet above sea level.

Kingston within Lander County

Population over time

2 figures

Kingston grew from 113 to 194 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
2010113
2020194+81 (+72%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

18 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Kingston between 1993 and 2016, burning about 8 acres in total. 15 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
Natural15
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
25 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHumboldt-Toiyabe National ForestKINGSTON 2
16 September 2002Natural2.0 acresHumboldt-Toiyabe National ForestBROAD
30 August 2012Naturalunder an acreHumboldt-Toiyabe National ForestKINGSTON CREEK
23 August 1997Naturalunder an acreHumboldt-Toiyabe National ForestBLAKEY
23 August 1997Natural1.0 acresBattle Mountain District OfficeTOF #3
17 August 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreBattle Mountain District OfficeKINGSTON
3 July 2013Naturalunder an acreHumboldt-Toiyabe National ForestGILMAN SPRINGS (302)
26 July 2010Naturalunder an acreHumboldt-Toiyabe National ForestBUNKER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lander County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 25 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of Kingston: 10 past producers, 7 occurrences, 3 prospects, 3 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Silver, Gold, Gold, Silver, Copper. 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
Frenchman ClaimSilver, Zinc, Copper, LeadProspect
Golden Star MineGold, Silver, Copper, LeadPast ProducerVein
Horton MineGold, Silver, LeadPast ProducerVein
Klondike MineGold, Silver, Copper, Lead, ZincProducer1865
Klondyke MineSilver, Zinc, Lead, Gold, CopperPast Producer
Mother Lode MineSilver, Zinc, Lead, CopperUnknown
Santa Fe ClaimsGold, Copper, Silver, LeadPast Producer
South Frenchman LamoniteSilver, Zinc, Gold, LeadProspect
Stat ProspectSilver, GoldOccurrence1968
Unknown 11,15,43Silver, Gold, LeadOccurrence

Every working recorded in Lander 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
Adits Mill (historical)3.7 miles11
Watertown (historical)9.6 miles12
Canyon City (historical)10.1 miles12
Pedro (historical)11.7 miles12
Lander City (historical)12.4 miles12
Clinton (historical)13.0 miles12
Geneva (historical)13.0 miles12
Canon City17.3 miles12

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 Q10751602The 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 862179. 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.