It hosts an annual Catfish Festival on Labor Day weekend and is the location where the fan series Star Trek Continues was filmed.

Kingsland was platted in 1894 when the railroad was extended to that point, and named after William Henry King, the original owner of the site.

U.S. Route 17, an older highway running parallel to I-95, passes through the center of Kingsland.

[6] This recent growth makes Kingsland Georgia's 12th-largest city by land mass.

As of the 2020 United States census, there were 18,337 people, 6,118 households, and 4,546 families residing in the city.