1 (nautical) A pin or bolt, usually vertical, which acts as a pivot for a hinge or a rudder.  The train had a searchlight mounted on a pintle on a flat car. 1  For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:pintle. ( gunnery) An iron pin used to control recoil of a cannon or around which a gun carriage revolves.
The area outside of Westport Landing was renamed the Town of Kansas, after the local Kanza Native Americans, in 1839. The town was chartered by Jackson County in 1850 and incorporated by the State of Missouri as the City of Kansas in 1853.
Sequoyah County was renamed Finney County in 1883. The county seat is Garden City. Finney County, located in southwest Kansas approximately 200 miles west of Wichita, Kansas and about 70 miles from the Colorado border, is the second largest county in land area in Kansas; consisting of 1,296 square miles.