Depot Plaza

This plaza marks the start of Kingman's downtown walking tour, and its centerpiece is a bronze of Jim Hinckley, the town's resident Route 66 historian and author, unveiled in 2021. Kingman Main Street commissioned the sculpture and spent about a year carrying it from concept to casting. Placing a living local chronicler in bronze, rather than a general or a founder, says something about how thoroughly Kingman has tied its identity to the Mother Road and the people who keep its story alive.

What the plaque says

In February of 2021, Kingman Main Street met with. Anne Butler to discuss the commissioning of a bronze sculpture of resident historian im Hinckley. From concept to casting, this project has taken just over a year to complete. This statue is the start point to our downtown walking tour.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Kingman — steps away
  The working hub of Route 66 in Arizona — a railroad town named for a surveyor, Andy Devine's hometown, and the last real stop before the road's two wildest endings.
• Oatman — 22 mi
  A gold camp in the Black Mountains that outlived its mines, now run by wild burros — reached by the wildest switchbacks left on Route 66, and named for a history worth telling straight.
• Hackberry General Store — 23 mi
  Looks like a junkyard, is a shrine — the 1934 store an artist brought back from the dead, and the Route 66 stop that inspired Fillmore in Cars.

More markers nearby

• Depot — steps away
• Miner's Mineral Monument — steps away
• Water Tanks — steps away
• Central Commercial — steps away