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Kingston
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city in Roane County, Tennessee, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Tennessee
- County
- Roane
- Named after
- Maj. Robert King, officer at Fort Southwest Point
- Total
- 8.18 sq mi (21.18 km )
- Land
- 7.29 sq mi (18.88 km )
- Water
- 0.89 sq mi (2.30 km )
- Elevation
- 764 ft (233 m)
- Density
- 816.6/sq mi (315.31/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-5 ( Eastern (EST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-4 (EDT)
- Fips code
- 47-39620
- Website
- City website
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city in the United States
- Official name
- Kingston
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Roane County
- Population
- 5953
- Area
- 20.33694
- Elevation
- 233
- Capital of
- Roane County
- Official website
- www.kingston-tn.org
- Image
- Roane-county-tennessee-courthouse1.jpg
- Households
- 2521
- Dialing code
- 865
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- postal code
- 37763
- Commons category
- Kingston, Tennessee
- inception
- 1792-00-00
- different from
- Kingsport
- water as percent of area
- 9.5595
- per capita income
- 28465
Sources (9)
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Encyclopedic overview
Kingston is a city in and the county seat of Roane County, Tennessee, United States. This city is thirty-six miles southwest of Knoxville. As of the 2020 census, Kingston had a population of 5,953. It is included in the Harriman, Tennessee Micropolitan Statistical Area. Kingston is adjacent to Watts Bar Lake.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kingston” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.