According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 5.3 square miles (13.8 km2), all land.

[4] Kingston is named for Thomas Rice King, who moved from Fillmore to Piute County with his five sons and their families specifically to find a place where they could establish a United Order.

In the 1870s Brigham Young was encouraging communal living in United Order communities.

[5] The members of the United Order built the village of Kingston on ten acres of land east of Circleville.

"The town consisted of a central community building for school, dances, church and other meetings.

A communal kitchen and dining hall about seventy feet long stood in the center, with a large vegetable garden close by.

There were 22.0% of families and 32.8% of the population living below the poverty line, including 51.4% of under eighteens and none of those over 64.