- NEIGHBORHOODS
- Arizona West
- Atherton Acres
- Banks Airport Addition
- Bello Vista Estates
- Berry Acres
- Boulder Creek Estates
- Canyon Bluff Estates
- Canyon Ranch
- Canyon Shadows
- Canyon Vista
- Castle Rock Village
- Cecil Davis Addition
- Cedar Creek Estates
- Cedar Hills Ranches
- Cedar Mesa Ranches
- Cedar Ridge Estates
- Cerbat Ranches
- Cerbat Vistas
- Chaparral Mesa
- Cheyenne Meadows
- City Park Addition
- Clacks Canyon
- College Heights
- College Trails
- Country Club Canyon Estates
- Country Club Manor
- Country Club Villas
- Crestview Knolls
- Desert Fountain Estates
- Diamond M Ranches
- Diamondback Ridge
- Fairway Meadows
- Federal Highway Addition
- Fountain Hills Estates
- Fripps Ranch
- Gateway Acres
- Golden Gate Addition
- Golden Valley Ranchos
- Granite Bluffs
- Green Wood Village
- Hidden Meadows
- Hillview Ranches
- Hodges
- Hollywood Addition
- Hualapai Foothills
- Hualapai Meadows
- Hualapai Mountain Ranch
- Hualapai Shadows
- Hualapai Valley Estates
- Hubbs Addition
- Kingman Camelback
- Kingman Country Club Addition
- Kingman Crossing
- Kingman Golf Course Estates
- Kingman Park Estates
- Kingman Plesant View Addition
- Kingman Ranch
- Kingman Terrace Addition
- Kingman Valley Ranches
- Kino Plaza
- La Costa Townhomes
- Lake Havasu Acres
- Lake Juniper
- Lake Mead
- Lake Mead Rancheros
- Lake Mohave Country Club
- Lake Mohave Heights Estates
- Lake Mohave Ranchos
- Legacy at Walleck Ranch
- Longview Addition
- MacDonald Addition
- Maverick Estates
- Metcalfe Acres
- MIssion Estates
- Mission Hills
- Mountain Meadow Estates
- Mountain Shadow Estates
- Mountain View Estates
- Mountain Vista Ranches
- Music Mountain Ranches
- New Kingman Addition
- Norley Ranches
- Paradise Acres
- Peacock Mountain Estates
- Peacock Mountain Ranch
- Pine Lake
- Pinion Pine Estates
- Pleasant View Addition
- Prairie Heights Estates
- Rancho Santa Fe
- Redwing Canyon Estates
- Riata Highlands
- Riata Valley Estates
- Ridgeview Ranch
- Round Valley Ranches
- Rutherford Village
- Sacramento Ranchos
- Santa Fe Tract
- Sawmill Creek
- Serena Grace Meadows
- Shadow Mountain Acres
- Shadow Mountain Estates
- Shangri-La Estates
- Sierra Vista Estates
- Silver Ridge
- Silver Springs
- Silverado Estates
- Southern Vista
- Stockton Hill Ranches
- Stowell Addition
- Sunhaven Homesites
- Sunward Ho Ranches
- Surrey Heights
- The Ranch at Long Mountain
- The Villas
- Valle Del Sole
- Valle Vista
- Valley Slope
- Vista Bella
- Vock Canyon Ranches
- Walleck Ranch
- Walnut Creek Estates
- White Hills
- Willow Creek Ranch
- Windmill Ranch
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Kingman City Hall is located at 310 North Fourth Street, Kingman, AZ 86401; phone: 928-753-5561.
Photo: William G. Blakeley House. ca. 1887, 503 Spring Street, Kingman, AZ. Listed on National Register of Historic Places in 1986. Photographed by user:Rob Chilcoat, 2008, (own work) [cc-by-3.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons, accessed April, 2013.
Beginnings [1]
The City of Kingman is located within a natural basalt basin between the Hualapai, Cerbat, and Black Mountains in northwestern Arizona. The first Anglo-Americans known to visit the present site of Kingman was a party led by Lt. Edward F. Beale surveying a wagon road along the 35th parallel in 1858. The surrounding mountain ranges were rich in minerals and miners moved into the area after the establishment of Ft. Mohave in 1859. Mineral exploration turned into a mining boom with the discovery in 1863 of the Moss Mine in the Silver Creek area. The discovery in 1874 of the large McCracken mine continued the area's prosperity.
By the 1870s, cattle ranching became established as the second major industry in the area. Small-scale ranches supplied beef to both the soldiers at Ft. Mohave and the Indians at the Mohave Reservation near the Colorado River. The first major cattle drive into the area occurred in 1872, and the center of the cattle business was along the Big Sandy River.
The city of Kingman was founded in 1882 as a railroad stop by the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad (later known as the A.T. & S.F., or the Santa Fe). Development progressed rapidly as the railroad brought in supplies, lumber, and machinery, and carried out cattle and minerals. The new town grew into the financial and mercantile center of northwestern Arizona. A further boost to the town's importance occurred in 1887 when the county seat for Mohave County was moved from Mineral Park to Kingman.
- William Collins, State Service Intern and Reba N. Wells, Historian, Arizona State Historic Preservation Office, Arthur F. Black House, Mohave County, Arizona, nomination document, 1993, National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places, Washington, D.C.
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