Kingston, IA

Kingston is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Des Moines County, Iowa, United States. The 2020 census counted 81 residents. Kingston is part of the Burlington, IA–IL Micropolitan Statistical Area. Kingston is located along State Highway 99, approximately 15 miles north of Burlington. The short version is that Kingston carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Kingston: its past remains attached to the places people use now. Kingston is known for its Late Prehistoric Kingston Oneota Site and it is close to the Malchow Mounds State Preserve and the grave of Taimah, a native chieftain. Kingston was named for its founder, W.