Kingman Essential Info
Overview
Kingman is a city in Northern Arizona.
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Basics
Best Time To Go
Year round
Current Time
Current Weather
61 °F
Clear
Fun Facts
- Aviators Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart dedicated Arizona’s first commercial airport on Route 66 in Kingman in 1929.
- Clark Gable and Carole Lombard were married in Kingman at the St. John Methodist Church and honeymooned on at the Oatman Hotel in 1939.
- In 1992, Pamela Anderson posed for a Route 66 Playboy photo shoot and was brought in to the Kingman Police Department and asked to write a letter of apology.
- Santa Fe Locomotive No. 3759, located in Locomotive Park, ran 2,585,600 miles before it was retired and donated to the City of Kingman in 1957 as a Historical Landmark.
- Kingman is known as the Turquoise Capital of the World.
Popular Foods
- Burgers
- Redneck Nachos