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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. KINGMN_120720_008.JPG: Lewis Kingman Park Dedicated to Lewis Kingman, born North Bridgewater, Mass., 1845, died Mexico City, 1912. A civil engineer who pioneered railroad location and construction in the western United States and Mexico. During 1886-87 he supervised the construction of 1353 miles of railroad. During the construction of the railroad through this area, he established the railroad camp where the town of Kingman now stands.
2. KINGMN_120720_085.JPG: United States Army Established Camp Beale's Springs about one mile north, March 25, 1871. For the protection of settlers and travelers on northern route. Served as Hualapais Indian Agency. Military Camp abandoned April 6, 1874.
3. KINGMN_120720_094.JPG: Lt. Edward Fitzgerald Beale 1822 - 1893 Pioneer in the path of empire hero of the War with Mexico, lieutenant in United States Navy. Appointed general by the Governor of California. Commanded exploration of wagon route to the Colorado River, with the only camel train in American History 1857 - 1858.
4. KINGMN_120720_103.JPG: Wagon Route Surveyed by Lt. Edward F. Beale 1857 - 1858. Followed by railroad survey, 1858 – 1859. Route of Atlantic and Pacific Railroad built across Arizona 1882 – 1883. Tracks reached Kingman, spring, 1883. U. S. Highway 66 closely follows Beale's survey.
5. KINGMN_120720_114.JPG: 1950 - Korea - 1953 In memory of all those who answered the call to arms and made the ultimate sacrifice and to preserve the memory of: 36,516 Killed in Action, 7,245 Prisoners of War 1,789,000 Served in the Korean Theater Our nation honors her sons and daughters who answered the call to defend a country they never knew and a people they never met. Pfc. John P. Morris, U.S. Army, Mojave County, Az. Killed in Action on 14 February 1951. [Dedicated by:] The Korean War Veterans Association of Mojave County, Arizona.
6. KINGMN_120720_118.JPG: 1959 - Vietnam - 1975 There are 58,267 names listed on The Wall There are three sets of fathers and sons on The Wall 39,996 on The Wall are just 22 or younger 8,283 were just 19 years old 33,103 were 18 years old 12 soldiers on The Wall were 17 years old 5 soldiers on The Wall were 16 years old One soldier was 15 years old 997 soldiers were killed on their first day in Vietnam 1,448 soldiers were killed on their last scheduled day in Vietnam 8 women are on The Wall nursing the wounded [Dedicated by:] Vietnam Veterans of America, Mojave County, Arizona Chapter 975
7. KINGMN_120720_125.JPG: Kingman Veteran's Memorial In eternal memory of all Veterans of Kingman Past, Present and Future May your deeds and service never be forgotten or taken for granted. With the sincerest of appreciation to the following, who made this memorial a reality: Dean w. Reiter Det. 887, Marine Corps League Rotary Clubs of Kingman Desert Construction K&L DC Concrete Zorn Masonry True Value Hardware Arizona State Prison – Kingman Hoffman Pumping Dedicated this 11th Day of November 2006 by His Honor Les Byram, Mayor
8. KINGMN_120720_166.JPG: Santa Fe Locomotive No. 3759 Presented to the city of Kingman as an historical monument in 1967 by the Santa Fe Railway Company. This "Mountain Type" coal-burning steam locomotive was built in 1927 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works. It was rebuilt and converted to oil fuel in 1941. No. 3759 was on the passenger run between Los Angeles and Kansas City for many years, making ten round trips monthly. Average east-bound speed was 54.3 MPH; west-bound 60.2 MPH. Kingman was a "water stop" on the east-bound run. No. 3759 traveled a total of 2,585,600 miles during its years of service and made the final steam powered run from Los Angeles to Barstow in 1953 when diesel power replaced steam on the Santa Fe line. Specifications: Gross Weight Incl. Tender - 468,800 Lbs. Weight on Drivers - 236,000 Lbs Tractive Force - 66,000 Lbs Cylinder Size - 30" x 30" Diameter of Drivers - 80" Boiler Pressure - 250 PSI Tender Capacity (Water) - 20,000 Gal. Tender Capacity (Fuel Oil) - 7,107 Gal. Overall Length - 108' 7" Top Speed - 100 MPH Complements of the Duval Corporation
9. KINGMN_120720_212.JPG: Charles Metcalfe Park Dedicated in Memory of Charles Metcalfe 1855-1943 He deeded in perpetuity this land as a park for the use of Kingman youth. Recognized as a civic leader and land developer, He proposed development of Hualapai Mountain Park. He held offices of Mohave County Probate Judge, Supt. of Schools, Kingman U. S. Postmaster, Officer and Member Kingman B.P.O. Elks and Masonic Lodge. This monument built centennial year 1882 – 1982
Wikipedia Description: Kingman, Arizona
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Kingman (Huwaalyapay Nyava in the Mojave language) is a city in Mohave County, Arizona, and is also the county seat. According to 2006 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the city is 28,068. The nearby communities of Butler and Golden Valley bring the Kingman area total population to over 66,000. Kingman is located 33 miles east of Bullhead City, Arizona.

History

Lt. Edward Fitzgerald Beale, a U.S. Navy officer in the service of the U.S. Army Corps of Topographical Engineers, was ordered by the U.S. War Department to build a federal 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 Highway 66 and Interstate Highway 40. Remnants of the wagon road can still be seen in White Cliffs Canyon in Kingman.

Kingman, Arizona, was founded in 1882, when Arizona was only Arizona Territory. Situated in the Hualapai Valley between the Cerbat and Hualapai mountain ranges, Kingman is 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 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 railroad from Winslow, Ariz. to Beale's Springs, which is near the present location of the town of Kingman.

The Mohave County seat originally was located in Mineral Park, in the settlement of Callville. This portion of Arizona Territory was transferred to Nevada in 1865 after Nevada's statehood, and became part of Clark County, Nevada. With the loss of this territory, the Mohave County seat was moved to Mohave City in 1866, and then to Hardyville (which became Bullhead City) in 1867. The county seat transferred to the mining town of Cerbat in 1871, then to Mineral Park near Chloride in 1872. In 1887, the county seat was moved to Kingman after some period of time without a permanent county seat. According to local legend, the instruments and records of Mohave County government were taken clandestinely from Chloride and moved to Kingman in the middle of the night during this final transfer of the county seat.

During World War II, Kingman was the site of a U.S. Army Air Force (USAAF) airfield. The Kingman Army Airfield was founded at the beginning of WW II as an aerial gunnery training base. It became one of the USAAF's largest, training some 35,000 soldiers and airmen. The airfield and Kingman played a significant role in this important era of America's history. Following the war, the Kingman airfield served as one of the largest and best-known reclamation sites for obsolete military aircraft.

Postwar, Kingman experienced growth as several major employers moved into the vicinity. 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 largest arrests in American history. In 1955, Ford Motor Company established a proving ground (now one of the Chrysler Proving Grounds) in nearby Yucca, Arizona at the former Yucca Army Airfield. Several major new neighborhoods in Kingman were developed to house the skilled workers and professionals employed at the proving ground, as Kingman was the only sizable, developed town within a convenient distance. Likewise, the development of the Duval copper mine near adjacent Chloride, Arizona, and construction of the Mohave Generating Station in nearby Laughlin, Nevada, in 1971 contributed to Kingman's population growth. The location of a General Cable plant at what was to become the Kingman Airport Industrial Park provided a steady employment base as well. ...

Kingman Explosion/Doxol Disaster

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. The explosion occurred during a propane transfer from a Doxol railroad car to a storage tank on the Getz rail siding near Andy Devine Avenue/Route 66. The incident began when a railroad worker attempted to tighten a leaking connection by hitting a wrench with another wrench or a hammer; this caused a spark that ignited the leaking propane gas. The initial fire badly burned the two railroad employees present, one of whom later died from his burns. The burning propane gas escaping from the valve connection on the rail car quickly heated the liquid propane inside, increasing the tank pressure. This in turn increased the leak and fire, further heating the tank car. The Kingman Fire Department responded, and began setting up attack lines to cool the propane car. Within minutes of the initial fire, the safety valve on the car opened from the dangerously increased pressure in the tank car. The stream of propane gas blowing out of the safety valve immediately ignited as well. At this point, two burning streams of propane were shooting out of the car, one horizontal from the transfer valve, and one vertical from the safety valve. The heat from the streams of burning propane continued to heat the tank, increasing pressure to dangerous levels. The fire department was in the process of setting up a deluge gun to cool the car, which would have delivered far more water than the booster attack lines they initially were using; however, before the deluge gun could be made ready, the pressure inside the tank car reached the design bursting limit and the tank car exploded. Almost instantaneously, thousands of gallons of boiling liquid propane flashed to gas with the drop in pressure and simultaneously ignited. The resulting explosion produced a shock wave that was heard and felt for over 5 miles, and a fireball over 1,000 feet in diameter. Burning propane rained down on everything in the vicinity, and the remnants of the rail car were propelled over a quarter mile from the explosion site. The three firefighters closest to the explosion were killed instantly; eight more died from their burns shortly thereafter. In addition to the eleven city firefighters and one railroad worker killed in the disaster, over 90 onlookers gathered on the highway were burned or injured, some badly. The most severely burned, including some of the firefighters, were airlifted to hospitals in Las Vegas and Phoenix. This incident remains the worst firefighting disaster in Arizona history.

The incident was photographed in detail by a photographer on the roof of his home near the explosion site, and reportedly also was captured on 8mm film by a vacationing family. Because of this documentation, this explosion has become a classic incident studied in fire department training programs worldwide. The Arizona State Archives in Phoenix has 24 cubic feet (680 L) of original material, including civil case material and photographs, concerning the "Kingman Explosion." The incident was chronicled in the July 1993 issue of American Fire Journal in an article titled "Kingman Revisited".

Famous residents:

Former professional PRCA and PBR bull rider Cody Custer was born in Kingman.
The actor Andy Devine was raised in Kingman, where his family had moved from Flagstaff when he was one year old. His father opened the Beale Hotel here. One of the major streets of Kingman is named "Andy Devine Avenue" and the town holds the annual "Andy Devine Days".
Michael Fortier, Timothy McVeigh'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.
John Mathieson, an American rock drummer (La Bella Charade, Tomorrow's Rumor), was born in Kingman.
Timothy McVeigh was a resident of Kingman for various periods between 1993 and 1995, including immediately prior to the Oklahoma City bombing.
Former Boston Red Sox catcher Doug Mirabelli was born in Kingman.
Aviation author and historian Michael B. McComb attended Kingman High School (1981–1985) in Kingman.
Actor Will Sasso has been known to stay in Kingman for extended periods, escaping Los Angeles to get some R&R for his mind, body and soul.
Several members of the rock band The Asphalt currently live in Kingman, including drummer Nick Turner, guitarist Jason Marino and bassist Clifford Hickle.
Because Arizona is a "neutral" state for the Mafia and with Kingman's proximity to Las Vegas, members and associates of various La Cosa Nostra organizations, including Chicago and New York, have reportedly made Kingman their home over the years, as well as other areas of Mohave County.

In popular culture
Clark Gable and Carole Lombard were married at a local church in Kingman.

Kingman has been featured as a filming location for several movies and television shows.

In films

The films Roadhouse 66 and Two-Lane Blacktop were shot in Kingman. The movie Management takes place in Kingman. Scenes from the movie Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas were filmed at the Kingman Airport; in the scenes, it is possible to see a clear shot of the Hualapai Mountain. Scenes from the 1992 movie Universal Soldier were filmed in the downtown area as well as a local grocery store and at the Kingman Airport.

In television

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.
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").
The films Roadhouse 66 and Two-Lane Blacktop were shot in Kingman. The movie Management takes place in Kingman. Scenes from the movi Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas were filmed at the Kingman Airport; in the scenes, it is possible to see a clear shot of the Hualapai Mountain. Scenes from the 1992 movie Universal Soldier were filmed in the downtown area as well as a local grocery store and at the Kingman Airport.

In literature and publications

The town is mentioned in Barbara Kingsolver's novel Pigs in Heaven.
Pamela Anderson did one of her 1992 Playboy photo shoots at the corner of 4th Street and Andy Devine Avenue (U.S. Route 66), and was brought in to the Kingman Police Department for indecent exposure. She was not charged but asked to write a letter of apology.

In music

The town is mentioned in the lyrics to Bobby Troup's song "Route 66".

Points of interest

Hualapai Mountain Recreation Area
Kingman is well known for its location on Route 66.
The city is a gateway to the gambling destinations of Las Vegas and Laughlin, Nevada, as well as the Grand Canyon, California, the Colorado River, Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Lake Mohave, and Lake Havasu.
Oatman, Arizona, a nearby "ghost town" tourist attraction.
Keepers of the Wild, a wild animal sanctuary featuring lions and tigers among other animals. Keepers Of the Wild http://www.keepersofthewild.org/
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