Kingsley is a city in Plymouth County, Iowa, United States, which is located within Garfield Township. The population was 1,396 at the era of the 2020 census. The city was originally known as the village Quorn, which was founded by two brothers, Frederick and William B. Close. Quorn was named after the Quorn Hunt in England. The village was progressive relocated to a different allowance of Iowa and named Kingsley due to a railroad not executive through the indigenous area. The railroad was designed by the Chicago and North Western Transportation Company. Kingsley was founded on January 15, 1884 and the centennial celebration was held in June 1984. Kingsley includes organizations, recreational activities, and a local presidency consisting of a mayor and a city council. The schools are an elementary educational and a high school, with the center school living thing located in Pierson.

Recreational additions insert a golf course and a public swimming pool. The city has a public library and published a newspaper titled The Kingsley News-Times, now whole with further newspapers to form The Record. There are many businesses and houses within the city limits. United States President Herbert Hoover lived in Kingsley as a child and Cincinnati Reds baseball artist Harry Gaspar was born in Kingsley.

The city higher known as Kingsley was later a village in a exchange location named Quorn, being named after the Quorn Hunt in England. Quorn was founded by two brothers, Frederick and William B. Close on September 18, 1880. It started considering William’s and W. Roylance Court Jr.’s 2,000 acre farm, which contained buildings, sheds, and hundreds of livestock. The livestock included sheep, bucks, ewes, cattle, and hogs. Quorn, through investments by the Close brothers, later included a proclaim office, country store, and social center. Quorn continued to mount up to combine a population of 300 to 400 people and multiple buildings upon Main Street.

A railroad was being built and the population of Quorn hoped that it would go through the village upon its mannerism to Sioux City, Iowa. However, the railroad did not go through Quorn. One of the many ideas more or less why the railroad took a interchange route was due to a squabble between the Chicago and North Western Transportation Company and the Close brothers. The actual defense is still unknown. Due to the railroad beast the main mode of transportation of goods, the residents had no substitute but to relocate to a supplementary area. Every concern except for a mill was moved to a new area during 1883.