Kingsburg

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A village in Lunenburg district municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada.
  2. 2
    An unincorporated community in Bon Homme County, South Dakota, United States.
  3. 3
    A city in Fresno County, California, United States.

    "The Fresno County Sheriff’s Office said the body belonging to Miguel Alonso Garcia was dug up on a Kingsburg property, located on the 400 block of 6th Avenue Drive."

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kingsburghkingsbury

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"The Fresno County Sheriff’s Office said the body belonging to Miguel Alonso Garcia was dug up on a Kingsburg property, located on the 400 block of 6th Avenue Drive."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From king + -s- + -burg, in honor of George III who provided the land grant to the original settlers. Doublet of Kingsburgh, Kingsbury, Kingsberry, and Conisbrough. Cf. Kingsville, Kingstown, Kingstone, Kingston, Coniston, Coniston Cold, and Conington.

Etymology 2

From King + -s- + -burg, in honor of Mike King, a landowner.

Etymology 3

Variant of Kingsburgh, from Kings + -burgh, emended from earlier Kingsbury, named for the nearby Kings River, a calque of Spanish Rio de los Santos Reyes (“River of the Holy Kings”), named in honor of the Three Wise Men of the stories of the Nativity of Jesus because of its first recorded European discovery by members of Gabriel Moraga's expedition on 6 January 1806, the day of the feast of the Epiphany.

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