Everything about Kingman Arizona totally explained
Kingman (
Huwaalyapay Nyava in
Mojave) is a city in
Mohave County,
Arizona,
United States. The city is the
county seat of
Mohave County. According to 2006 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the city is 27,271. The nearby communities of
Golden Valley and
Butler bring the Kingman area's total population to around 40,000.
History
Lt.
Edward Fitzgerald Beale, a Naval officer in the service of the U.S. Army Topographical Corps, was ordered by the War Department to build a government-funded wagon road across the 35th Parallel. His secondary orders were to test the feasibility of the use of camels as pack animals in the southwestern desert. Beale traveled through the present day Kingman in 1857 surveying the road and in 1859 to build the road. The road became part of
U.S. Route 66 and
Interstate 40.
Kingman, Arizona, was founded in
1882. Situated in the scenic Hualapai Valley between the Cerbat and Hualapai mountain ranges, it's known for its very modest beginnings as a simple railroad siding near Beale’s Springs in the Middleton Section along the newly-constructed route of the
Atlantic and Pacific Railroad. The city of Kingman was named after
Lewis Kingman who surveyed along the Atlantic and Pacific right of way between
Needles and
Albuquerque. Lewis Kingman supervised the building of the
railroad from
Winslow to Beale's Springs, which is near the present location of the city of Kingman.
On
July 5,
1973, Kingman was the site of a catastrophic
BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion) which killed 11
firefighters. The explosion occurred following a fire that broke out as
propane was being transferred from a railroad car to a storage tank. This explosion has become a classic incident studied in fire department training programs worldwide. A detailed account, including some spectacular photographs, of the explosion and its aftermath can be found in the
History of Kingman Regional Medical Center
(scroll down to
July 5,
1973).
Famous residents
Actor
Andy Devine was raised in Kingman, where he moved from
Flagstaff, Arizona at the age of one when his father opened the Beale Hotel there. One of the major streets of Kingman is named Andy Devine Avenue and the city holds annual Andy Devine Days. The street is part of Route 66.
Boston Red Sox catcher
Doug Mirabelli was born in Kingman.
In popular culture
Kingman has been featured as a filming location for the movies
Roadhouse 66, scenes from
Universal Soldier (Crazy Fred's Truckstop and a destroyed gas station on Route 66) and
Two-Lane Blacktop. In addition the
first contact scene in the movie
Mars Attacks! was filmed at nearby Red Lake.
In "
Otis", an episode of the television series
Prison Break,
LJ Burrows is sent to an adult facility in Kingman, Arizona. In a subsequent episode "
Buried", LJ is released from the aforementioned facility.
The town is mentioned in the lyrics to the song "
Route 66".
The Wendy's scene in the movie
Zoom was also filmed in Kingman.
Pamela Anderson also did one of her 1992
Playboy photo shoots at the corner of 4th Street and Andy Devine Avenue (
Route 66), and was brought in to the Kingman Police Department for indecent exposure. She wasn't charged but asked to write a letter of apology.
Geography
Kingman is located at (35.208449, -114.025730), at 3,333 feet in elevation.
According to the
United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 30.0
square miles (77.6
km²), all of it land.
Demographics
As of the
census of 2000, there were 20,069 people in all with 7,854 households, and 5,427 families residing in the city. The
population density was 669.7 people per square mile (258.5/km²). There were 8,604 housing units at an average density of 287.1/sq mi (110.8/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 89.94%
White, 0.55%
Black or
African American, 1.98%
Native American, 1.44%
Asian, 0.14%
Pacific Islander, 3.41% from
other races, and 2.53% from two or more races. 9.25% of the population were
Hispanic or
Latino of any race.
There were 7,854 households out of which 30.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 54.6% were
married couples living together, 10.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 30.9% were non-families. 25.5% of all households were made up of individuals and 11.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.47 and the average family size was 2.94.
In the city the population was spread out with 25.0% under the age of 18, 7.4% from 18 to 24, 25.6% from 25 to 44, 24.2% from 45 to 64, and 17.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females there were 97.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 94.4 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $34,086, and the median income for a family was $41,327. Males had a median income of $32,036 versus $21,134 for females. The
per capita income for the city was $17,181. About 8.2% of families and 11.6% of the population were below the
poverty line, including 15.3% of those under age 18 and 7.9% of those age 65 or over.
Education
Kingman is served by the
Kingman Unified School District and the
Kingman Academy of Learning.
Mohave Community College is located in Kingman.
Points of interest
References
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