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 ...
Arkansas
Arkansas ( ) is a landlocked state in the West South Central region of the Southern United States. It borders Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east, Louisiana to the south, Texas to the southwest, and Oklahoma ...
, 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
Huntsville
Huntsville is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Alabama. The population of the city is estimated to be 241,114 in 2024, making it the 100th-most populous city in the U.S. The Huntsville metropolitan area had an estimated 525,465 ...
, the Madison
county seat
A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a county or parish (administrative division), civil parish. The term is in use in five countries: Canada, China, Hungary, Romania, and the United States. An equiva ...
, by Highway 74, and southwest of
Harrison
Harrison may refer to:
People
* Harrison (name)
* Harrison family of Virginia, United States
Places
Australia
* Harrison, Australian Capital Territory, suburb in the Canberra district of Gungahlin
Canada
* Inukjuak, Quebec, or "Port H ...
. 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
Missouri
Missouri (''see #Etymology and pronunciation, pronunciation'') is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking List of U.S. states and territories by area, 21st in land area, it border ...
.
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 ...
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 ...