Kingman topographic map

Name: Kingman topographic map, elevation, terrain.

Location: Kingman, Mohave County, Arizona, United States (35.17405 -114.09481 35.28733 -113.92299)

Average elevation: 1,131 m

Minimum elevation: 827 m

Maximum elevation: 1,648 m

Lt. Edward Fitzgerald Beale, a U.S. Navy officer in the service of the 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. Beale's Wagon Road became part of U.S. Route 66 and later Interstate 40. Remnants of the wagon road can still be seen in White Cliffs Canyon in Kingman.

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