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Kingston, Utah

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Circleville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84743. It stands on East Fork Sevier River. The Survey maps it on the Junction quadrangle. 135 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,017 feet above sea level.

Kingston within Piute County

Population over time

2 figures

Kingston fell from 173 to 135 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
2010173
2020135-38 (-22%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 16 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

12 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Kingston between 1996 and 2020, burning about 1 acre in total. 8 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
Natural8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
18 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCentral AreaJUNCTION
5 August 2003Naturalunder an acreRichfield Field OfficeROCKY FORD
30 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreCentral AreaKINGSTON
25 August 2011Naturalunder an acreRichfield Field OfficeSKEEN CANYON
1 August 1996Naturalunder an acreRichfield Field OfficeMCCARDY
22 July 2012Naturalunder an acreRichfield Field OfficeOUTLAW
22 July 2006Naturalunder an acreDixie National ForestCORRAL FLAT
22 July 2002Naturalunder an acreRichfield Field OfficeROUND TOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Piute County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Kingston: 15 past producers, 7 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Kaolin, Manganese, Uranium. 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
Junkyard Clay DepositKaolinPast Producer
Junkyard Clogs DepositKaolinOccurrenceReplacement
Kingston Manganese OccuranceManganesePast Producer
Kingston Manganese OccurrenceManganeseOccurrenceVein
Uranium BluffsUraniumPast Producer
Uranium Bluffs #1UraniumOccurrence1954
Graveyard Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Graveyard Gravel ProspectSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceSurface
Section 16 Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Section 16 Gravel ProspectSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceSurface

Every working recorded in Piute County

Storms near this place

2 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kingston in 2 storm reports between 1997 and 2021: 2 flash flood. The reports record 1 death. 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
August 1997Flash FloodKingston1 killed, $30,000no account filed
August 2021Flash FloodKingston$1,100County dispatch reported Kingston Canyon was underwater with rock and debris over a portion of state Route 62.

Every storm recorded in Piute 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
Junction2.6 miles16
Circleville5.1 miles14
Angle11.5 miles17
Alunite12.2 miles20
Thompsonville14.5 miles20
Bullion Falls16.0 miles19
Marysvale16.8 miles20
Hoovers20.7 miles19

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 Q483356The 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 1442334. 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.