Kingston Mines, IL

Kingston Mines is a village in Peoria County, Illinois, United States. The 2020 census counted 266 residents. Kingston Mines is part of the Peoria, Illinois Metropolitan Statistical Area. Located on the Illinois River, it was a shipping port, loading coal from the nearby mines. Taken together, these details give a newcomer a usable picture of Kingston Mines, where its history, geography, and current gathering places meet. For Kingston Mines, the memorable detail is the way older history and current gathering places share one local map. In the early 20th century, an archeological site of an indigenous village on the north shore of Kingston Lake, Illinois River was destroyed by the Kingston Lake Gravel Company. The Peoria Academy of Science performed some fieldwork in the 1930s. Kingston Mines is located in the southwestern corner of Timber Township, mostly within the bounds of quarter sections 25 and 26.