Kingston, TN Road Trips
Plan drives from Kingston, TN with practical route pages for distance, drive time, fuel cost, road character, and places to stop along the way.
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Trip Routes
1
Longest Drive
340.9 mi
Bartlett, TN
Quickest Drive
6h 15m
Bartlett, TN
Plan Around Kingston, TN
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Kingston, TN by the Numbers
Recent demographic snapshot from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey.
Population
6,042
Median Income
$70,532
Median Home Value
$204,200
Median Age
47.1
Source: US Census Bureau ACS 5-year (public domain). See our methodology for details.
Kingston, TN at a Glance
Founded
1792
Elevation
764 ft
Area
8 mi²
Notable People from Kingston, TN
A sampling of people born in Kingston, TN.
Bobby Clark
1888–1960
American actor (1888-1960)
Martin W. Littleton
1872–1934
American politician (1872-1934)
Jennie Jackson
1852–1910
American singer
George Lewis Gillespie, Jr.
1841–1913
United States Army Chief of Engineers, and Medal of Honor recipient
City data from Wikidata (Q1150733), available under CC0. Photos from Wikimedia Commons under their respective licenses. See our methodology for details.
Traveler Guide to Kingston, TN
Kingston is a city in Tennessee. This seat of Roane County was a frontier town back in 1792 centered around Fort Southwest Point. In 1807, it was actually the Tennessee state capital for a day, too, before the Tennessee General Assembly reconvened in Nashville. It had some Union sentiments during the Civil War. In 2008, a nasty impoundment of fly ash slurry from the Kingston Fossil Plant (coal) broke open, leaching pollution everywhere. People today often recognize Kingston by the two tall smokestacks of the Kingston Steam Plant when driving by on I-40.
Fort Southwest Point, 1225 S Kentucky St. Reconstructed fort that used to be the start of Kingston circa 1792, on the edge of the frontier. Tel: +1 865-376-3641.
Kingston City Park,, 333 W Race St. Park and beach along Watts Bar Lake or the Clinch River where you can go swimming, although ack sometimes there's talk of PCBs. Tel: +1 865-376-9476.
Whitestone Inn, 1200 Paint Rock Rd, ☏ +1 865 376-0113. Fifty-acre rural bed-and-breakfast property on Watts Bar Lake with view of the Smoky Mountains. Dining. Facilities for weddings and events. (updated Mar 2023)
Travel tips adapted from Kingston (Tennessee) on Wikivoyage, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Content summarized; visit the source for the full article. See our methodology for how we use it.
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