Kingman, Arizona Kingman, Arizona Mohave County Courthouse in Kingman Mohave County Courthouse in Kingman Official seal of Kingman, Arizona Location in Mohave County and the State of Arizona Location in Mohave County and the State of Arizona Kingman (Huwaalyapay Nyava in the Mojave language) is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Mohave County, Arizona, United States.
According to the 2010 census, the populace of the town/city is 28,068. The close-by communities of Butler, and Golden Valley bring the Kingman region total populace to over 45,000.
Kingman is positioned 85 miles (137 km) southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada and about 165 miles (266 km) northwest of the state capital, Phoenix. Kingman, Arizona, was established in 1882, when Arizona was still Arizona Territory.
Situated in the Hualapai Valley between the Cerbat and Hualapai mountain peaks, Kingman is known for its very modest beginnings as a simple barns siding near Beale's Springs in the Middleton Section along the newly constructed route of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad.
The town/city of Kingman was titled for Lewis Kingman, who surveyed along the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad's right-of-way between Needles, Calif., and Albuquerque, N.M.
Lewis Kingman supervised the building of the barns from Winslow, Ariz.
To Beale's Springs, which is near the present locale of the town of Kingman.
The Mohave County seat originally was positioned in Mohave City from 1864 to 1867.
In 1887, the governmental center of county was moved to Kingman after some reconstructionof time without a permanent county seat, the instruments and records of Mohave County government were taken clandestinely from Chloride and moved to Kingman in the middle of the evening amid this final transfer of the county seat.
During World War II, Kingman was the site of a U.S.
In 1953 Kingman was used to detain those men accused of practicing polygamy in the Short Creek raid, which was at the time one of the biggest arrests in American history. In 1955, Ford Motor Company established a proving ground (now one of the Chrysler Proving Grounds) in close-by Yucca, Arizona at the former Yucca Army Airfield.
Several primary new neighborhoods in Kingman were advanced to home the skilled workers and professionals working at the proving ground, as Kingman was the only sizeable, advanced town inside a convenient distance.
Likewise, the evolution of the Duval copper mine near adjoining Chloride, Arizona, and assembly of the Mohave Generating Station in close-by Laughlin, Nevada, in 1971 contributed to Kingman's populace growth.
The locale of a General Cable plant at what was to turn into the Kingman Airport Industrial Park provided a steady employment base as well.
Kingman is positioned at 35 12 30 N 114 1 33 W (35.208449, -114.025730), at 3,333 feet (1,016 m) in elevation.
Kingman sits on the easterly edge of the Mojave Desert, but is positioned in a "cold semi-arid climate" (Koppen BSk) freshwater the desert.
Kingman's higher altitude and locale between the Colorado Plateau and the Lower Colorado River Valley keeps summer high temperatures away from the extremes (115 F (46 C) or more) experienced by Phoenix and the Colorado River Valley.
The record low temperature in Kingman was set on January 9, 1937 at 6 F ( 14 C), and the record high temperature occurred on August 19, 1915, July 16, 1917, and July 3, 1967, at 111 F (44 C).
The most snow flurry in one month was 14.0 inches (0.36 m) in December 1932. On December 31, 2014 and January 1, 2015, Kingman received 6.5 inches of snow.
Climate data for Kingman, Arizona Kingman's town/city administration consists of the Mayor, Vice-mayor, the City Council, and the City Manager.
Arizona State Prison Kingman, a privately run prison of the Arizona Department of Corrections, is positioned in unincorporated Mohave County, Arizona, near Kingman. The United States Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management has a field office positioned in Kingman.
According to Kingman's 2014 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the town/city are: 1 Kingman Regional Medical Center 1,630 3 Kingman Unified School District 985 8 City of Kingman 332 93 just west of Kingman, and is the major link between Kingman and Bullhead City and Laughlin.
With the culmination of the Mike O'Callaghan Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge, the proposed Interstate 11 would run through Kingman, replacing U.S.
The Kingman Airport is positioned nine miles northeast of Kingman on Arizona State Route 66.
The airport was originally assembled as Kingman Army Air Field amid World War II, and was home to the Kingman Aerial Gunnery School.
After the war, large numbers of USAAF airplane were stored and dismantled at Kingman.
Kingman is a non-towered airport.
The small Amtrak station in downtown Kingman is a historically momentous building, constructed in Mission Revival Style architecture; however, before to the establishment of Amtrak in 1971, the structure had declined into disrepair with the diminish of passenger rail service in the U.S.
Kingman also is positioned on the Southern Transcon route of the BNSF Railway.
In August 2012 the Kingman Terminal Railroad (KGTR) opened at the Kingman Airport Authority and Industrial Park.
The City of Kingman operates Kingman Area Regional Transit. Kingman is served by the bus companies Greyhound and TUFESA.
Several private shuttle companies connect Kingman with Mc - Carran International Airport in Las Vegas. Kingman has one enhance school district, one charter school district, and one Christian school.
All major education is split between the enhance and charter school districts: Kingman Unified School District and Kingman Academy of Learning.
Kingman Unified School District (KUSD) consists of 12 schools.
Kingman Academy of Learning Primary/Intermediate School Kingman Middle School Kingman Academy of Learning Middle School Kingman High School Kingman Academy of Learning High School Tipton School, a KUSD K-12 school, is positioned in Dolan Springs, approximately 30 miles northwest of Kingman.
The Kingman Academy of Learning, a charter school, is split into 4 schools: a major (preschool - 2nd grade), intermediate (3rd - 5th), middle (6th - 8th), and high school (9th - 12th).
One of the three chief campuses of Mohave Community College, a junior college, is positioned in Kingman.
Northern Arizona University has an extension ground located in Kingman.
The Kingman Explosion, also known as the Doxol Disaster or Kingman BLEVE, was a catastrophic boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion (BLEVE) that occurred on July 5, 1973 in Kingman.
Motels along Andy Devine Avenue in Kingman in 2004 Andy Devine (1905 1977), actor, was raised in Kingman, where his family had moved from Flagstaff when he was one year old.
One of the primary streets of Kingman is titled "Andy Devine Avenue" and the town holds the annual "Andy Devine Days".
Michael Fortier, Timothy Mc - Veigh's co-conspirator, lived in Kingman from the age of seven.
Miki Garcia, model and Playboy magazine's Playmate for the January 1973 issue, was born in Kingman.
Paul Kalanithi (1977 2015), neurosurgeon and writer, was raised in Kingman.
Timothy Mc - Veigh (1968 2001) was a resident of Kingman for various periods between 1993 and 1995, including immediately before to the Oklahoma City bombing.
Doug Mirabelli, former Boston Red Sox catcher, was born in Kingman.
Will Sasso, actor, has been known to stay in Kingman for extended periods, escaping Los Angeles to get some R&R for his mind, body and soul.
Drummer Nick Turner, guitarist Jason Marino and bassist Clifford Hickle, members of the modern band The Asphalt presently live in Kingman.
Aron Ra, enhance speaker and president of Atheist Alliance of America, was born in Kingman.
A "Welcome to Kingman" sign on a water tower, marking its connection with Route 66 Kingman has been featured as a recording locale for a several movies and tv shows.
The films Roadhouse 66 and Two-Lane Blacktop were shot in Kingman.
The movie Management takes place but was not shot in Kingman.
Scenes from the movie Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas were filmed at the Kingman Airport; in the scene, it is possible to see a clear shot of the Hualapai Mountain.
Scenes from the 1992 movie Universal Soldier were filmed in the downtown region as well as a small-town grocery store and at the Kingman Airport. were filmed in Dolan Springs and Kingman.
"Aliens in Kingman" a short film (IMDb) was filmed entirely in Kingman. In "Otis", an episode from the tv series Prison Break, LJ Burrows is sent to an adult facility in Kingman, Arizona.
The man tells the killer that 'it' is near Kingman, where his partner lives.
As the story progresses, it is identified that the man is associated with the Navajo Reservation positioned 20 E of Kingman.
In the HBO Series The Sopranos, when Tony Soprano was shot in the beginning of Season 6, he fell into a coma and believed he was involved in a case of mistaken identity with Kevin Finnerty who lived in Kingman, Arizona (see "Join the Club").
In "The Locomotion Interruption, the season 8 premiere of The Big Bang Theory, Sheldon Cooper finds his belongings stolen at the Kingman, Arizona train station.
In the post-apocalyptic novel Warday, Kingman is the "point of entry" to California; the Golden State, spared by the nuclear attacks that hit much of the rest of the country, is strictly guarded by troops, and "illegals" are jailed.
Route 66), and was brought into the Kingman Police Department for indecent exposure.
Kingman is well known for its locale on Route 66.
Kingman is the closest town/city to the Grand Canyon Skywalk, a transparent horseshoe-shaped cantilever bridge and tourist attraction on the edge of the Grand Canyon.
The Grand Canyon Caverns, one of the biggest dry caverns in the United States, is a short drive north and east of Kingman.
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