Town file
Kingman, Kansas
Kingman, Kansas (Kingman County, Kansas) is the town in one episode of Small Town Murder, the comedy true-crime podcast: episode 538, "Dead With No Head" (19 October 2024). Kingman is a small town in south-central Kansas, in Kingman County, about fifty minutes from Wichita.
- Town
- Kingman
- County
- Kingman County
- State
- Kansas
- Country
- USA
- Episodes
- 538
- Approximate location
- 37.648, -98.116
Episode 538 / 19 October 2024 / 71 min / express
Dead With No Head
""It's Kingman, Kansas" after saying they are going to south central Kansas and this is in Kingman County" about 0:04:23
The case: Murder of Vashti Seacat (April 30, 2011). Read the case file.
History, in brief
- Kingman was laid out in 1874. about 0:04:27
- It was named, like the county, for Samuel A. Kingman, a chief justice of the Kansas Supreme Court. about 0:04:32
- Kingman is known as the town with plenty of soft spring water, a claim made since 1940. about 0:05:15
- In 1904 a vote of 276 to 37 approved a proposition giving 35,000 in bonds to build waterworks. about 0:05:29
- John Hoover dug the wells near where the light plant is now and found good water at 35 feet. about 0:05:54
The reviews read out
4 stars
"A small town with potential growth and a great place to raise a family, though there is not much available to entertain kids."about 0:06:30
3 stars
"My hometown is not perfect; problems include teen alcohol use and small-scale drug use such as marijuana, and there is little entertainment, but the reviewer would come back and maybe raise children there."about 0:06:57
3 stars
"Crime is not too high, but it is disturbing that most of the crimes committed are done by teens."about 0:08:44
Nearest Small Town Murder towns
- Hutchinson, Kansas31 miles
- Wellington, Kansas47 miles
- Newton, Kansas50 miles
- Great Bend, Kansas62 miles
- Arkansas City, Kansas71 miles
- Enid, Oklahoma87 miles
Everything here is as told in the episode, on the date it went out; figures and places may have changed since. Endings are covered: open an episode and use the spoiler switch to read them.