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Kingman is city in and county seat of Mohave County, Arizona, United States.It is named after Lewis Kingman, an engineer for the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad.It is located 105 miles (169 km) southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada, and 180 miles (290 km) northwest of Arizona's state capital, Phoenix. [5]
Mohave County was the one of four original Arizona Counties created by the 1st Arizona Territorial Legislature.The county territory was originally defined as being west of longitude 113° 20' and north of the Bill Williams River. [3]
Historic Kingman 1954 Chevrolet Bel Air police car#1 a.k.a. "Jingles" The Kingman townsite, named for Lewis Kingman, was designated in 1882. The original Kingman townsite was within the boundaries of what are now First and Sixth, Pine and Golconda streets. Johanna Wilkinson and her sister Francis came to the Kingman territory in the early 1880s.
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The jail serving the county in 2023, at 501 Historic Route 66 in Kingman, was built in 2010. It is a 688 bed county jail, about a half mile from the courthouse and 1909 jail. [7] [8] Both buildings were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. [1]
A snowstorm dropped up to 18 inches of snow on Kingman, Arizona, on the eastern edge of the Mojave Desert, between February 20 and 21, snarling traffic and prompting the closure of government ...