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Kingston, West Virginia
Unincorporated community
Country	United States
State	West Virginia
County	Fayette
Elevation	1,467 ft (447 m)
Time zone	Eastern (EST) (UTC-5)
• Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC-4)
Area code(s)	304 & 681
GNIS feature ID	1554884

Kingston is an unincorporated community and coal town in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States. Kingston is 8.5 miles (13.7 km) west of Oak Hill.

Kingston was named in 1910 by mining officials.

Municipalities and communities of Fayette County, West Virginia, United States

County seat: Fayetteville

Cities	Montgomery‡ Mount Hope Oak Hill Smithers‡

Towns	Ansted Fayetteville Gauley Bridge Meadow Bridge Pax Thurmond

CDPs	Beards Fork Boomer Charlton Heights Deep Water Dixie‡ Falls View Glen Ferris Glen Jean Hico Hilltop Kimberly Kincaid Minden Mount Carbon Page Powellton Prince Scarbro

Other unincorporated communities	Agnew Alloy Alta Ames Babcock Bachman Backus Beauty Beckwith Beelick Knob Bellwood Belva‡ Beury Big Right Hand Boone Boonesborough Bowlin Brooklyn Bryce Cannelton Caperton Carbondale Carlisle Chimney Corner Claremont Clifftop Clifty Coalfield Collinsdale Columbia Concho Corliss Cotton Hill Crescent Crickmer Cunard Danese Dempsey Derryhale Dewitt Dimmock Divide Donwood‡ Dothan Dubree Dunloup Eagle East Kingston Edmond Elkridge Elverton Export Fayette Finlow Gamoca Gatewood Gaymont Glade Grayden Greenstown Hamilton Harewood Harvey Hemlock Hilton Village Honeydew Hopewell Ingram Branch Jenky Jodie Kanawha Falls Keeneys Creek Kilsyth Kingston KM Junction Landisburg Lansing Laurel Creek Lawton Layland Leander Lee Lick Fork Lively Lochgelly Long Branch Longacre Lookout Lucas MacDonald Mahan Maplewood Marting Marvel Maywood McDunn McKendree Meadow Fork Medo Midway Milburn Montgomery Heights Mossy Mount Olive Mulvane Nallen‡ Newlyn Newtown North Page Oak Ridge Old Gauley Packs Branch Pine Grove Price Hill‡ Prudence Quinnimont Ramsey Ravenseye Red Spring Redstar Robson Romont Roseville Rush Run Russellville Salem Sanger Sewell Shawver‡ Spring Dale Stone Cliff Sturgeon Branch Summerlee Sun Sunnyside Surbaugh Thayer Turkey Knob Vanetta Victor Westerly Whipple Willis Branch Wingrove Winona Wriston Wyndal

Ghost towns	Alaska Carver Deitz Elliott Ephram Erskine Fire Creek Greenwood Kay Moor Michigan Mincar Nuttallburg Pennbrook Red Ash Whitney

Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

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