A map of the Heston-Kingdom City-Richfield metropolitan area (click to enlarge). Heston, the capital city of the U.S. state of Altamasstachia, is also the principal city of the Heston-Kingdom City-Richfield metropolitan statistical area, which is the fourth-largest urban area in the state. The Heston metropolitan area boasts a total population of 1,079,521 according to the 2021 estimate from the U.S. Census Bureau. When the United States annexed Altamasstachia and established it as a territory in 1807, citizens of the Altamasstachia territory voted to establish a new city in present-day Hamilton County as the territorial capital, which they named after Abraham Heston (1730-1798), a Revolutionary War general and rancher from Virginia who became an outspoken advocate of incorporating Altamasstachia into the Union. Heston, a planned city, was fully completed just before the outbreak of the American Civil War, in which Altamasstachia sent troops on the Union side of the conflict. On ...