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Kingston is an
unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
and
census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...
(CDP) in northeast Madison County,
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, United States. It was first listed as a CDP in the 2020 census with a population of 97. Kingston was
plat In the United States, a plat ( or ) (plan) is a cadastral map, drawn to scale, showing the divisions of a piece of land. United States General Land Office surveyors drafted township plats of Public Lands Survey System, Public Lands Surveys to ...
ted in 1853 by King Johnson, and named for him.


Geography

Kingston is located at the intersection of Arkansas highways 21 and 74."Madison County, Arkansas." Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department
AHTD Madison County map
Retrieved on July 3, 2010.
It is east of
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, the Madison
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, by Highway 74, and southwest of
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. Kingston is located in the Kings River valley. The stream forms the western edge of the CDP and flows north to the White River in
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.


Education

Public education for elementary and secondary school students is provided by the
Jasper School District Jasper Public School District 1 is a public school district based in Jasper, Arkansas, United States. The school district supports early childhood, elementary and secondary education for more than 900 students in prekindergarten through grade ...
, which includes: * Kingston Elementary School, serving kindergarten through grade 6. * Kingston High School, serving grades 7 through 12. On July 1, 2004, the
Kingston School District Kingston School District was a school district headquartered in Kingston, a community in unincorporated Madison County, Arkansas Madison County is a County (United States), county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of the 2020 Unite ...
, along with the Oark School District, merged into the Jasper district.ConsolidationAnnex_from_1983.xls
"
Arkansas Department of Education The Arkansas Department of Education (ADE) is a cabinet-level agency of the Arkansas state government overseeing public education for K-12, higher education institutions, and career and technical education. The ADE also contains the Arkansas ...
. Retrieved on May 23, 2018.


Demographics


2020 census


References


External links

Unincorporated communities in Madison County, Arkansas Northwest Arkansas Unincorporated communities in Arkansas Census-designated places in Madison County, Arkansas Census-designated places in Arkansas {{Arkansas-geo-stub