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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]
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.
Elks' Lodge No. 468 is located at the Corner of Fourth and Oak Streets in Kingman, Arizona. The building was started in 1903–04 with modifications in 1913. The building is of Romanesque/Richardsonian style. C. E. Walker was the architect and Norman Hale was the contractor. Mr. Hale was an expert stonemason from the 1890s to the early 1900s.
The site is mostly abandoned, but remains home to a reconstruction of a historic schoolhouse. [27] Town was sometimes called Bundyville, after the family that settled the area. As of 2006 one member of the Bundy family still lived alone on a 320-acre ranch near the abandoned town site. [28] Nothing: Mohave: 1977: 2005: Abandoned site
The Northern Avenue Petroglyph Site, in Kingman, Arizona, is a 0.2-acre (0.081 ha) archeological site that was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1996. It has also been known as "AZ F;12:22(ASM)". It served as a ceremonial site and an animal facility, in prehistory. [1]
The Foster S. Dennis House is a Queen Anne style house located in Kingman, Arizona.The house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.It was evaluated for National Register listing as part of a 1985 study of 63 historic resources in Kingman that led to this and many others being listed.
The county is also notable for being home to a large polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints sect located in Colorado City. Mohave County has had five county seats: Mohave City (1864–1867), Hardyville (1867–1873), Cerbat (1873–1877), Mineral Park (1877–1887), and Kingman (1887–present). [4]
The church was built at the corner of Spring and Fifth streets in Kingman, Arizona. It is one block away from Route 66. St. John's is the oldest organized religious group in Kingman and this is its second building. The church was built in 1917, in the Greek Revival style. Construction started on February 28, 1917.