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Tingley, Iowa

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Tingley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50863. The Survey maps it on the Tingley quadrangle. 136 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,253 feet above sea level.

Tingley within Ringgold County

Population over time

2 figures

Tingley fell from 184 to 136 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010184
2020136-48 (-26%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

3 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Tingley between 2010 and 2015, burning about 61 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
21 March 2013Debris and open burning30 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 March 2015Debris and open burning30 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 December 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources1/2 MI E OF SHANNON CITY, IOWA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ringgold County

Storms near this place

13 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tingley in 13 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 heavy rain, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2010Tornado (EF2)Tingley$4,000,000A cone shape tornado was reported. Path was intermittent and the NWS survey suggests that the tornado hit a farmstead then lifted briefly skipping over some farms before setting back down and damaging another farmstead. Eyewittnesses also recount the tornado briefly lifting.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindTingley$50,000Two mesoscale convective systems developed over South Dakota and northern Nebraska during the evening hours of the 4th and merged into one large mesoscale convective complex. These developed in response to an approaching cold front and an upper level trough moving through the north-central United States. Moisture streamed north on a 30 to 40 kt low level jet to feed the system during the evening with 850 mb dew point temperatures in the area of 13° C. Much of what the complex produced was heavy rainfall and gusty winds. There were spotty reports of hail, but nothing of any real significance. A few of the cells were severe. The first report of severe weather in Iowa came from Plymouth County north of Sioux City. Winds of 70 to 80 mph knocked down trees and caused some roof damage at a farmstead along County Road K22, about 10 miles north of Sioux City. The storms moved into the city of Sioux City a short time later, uprooting trees and downing power lines. A mobile home park was hit where several mobile homes were overturned and a few small buildings were knocked off their foundations. There were other spotty reports of wind damage around northwest and west-central Iowa. Road signs were blown over by the winds near Galva in Ida County. The complex spawned a couple of small tornadoes. The first touched down briefly west of Galva. The county sheriff reported the tornado destroyed a few outbuildings during the brief time it was on the ground. Another tornado touched down in Buena Vista County. It first touched down south of Sulphur Springs. It hit a farmstead there where it totally destroyed a garage. The tornado tracked east across open country toward Newell. The last report of damage was west of Newell, where several trees were downed along the tornado path. The last tornado report came from southern Iowa much later. A funnel cloud was sighted in the Guss area, about five miles north of Gravity, in Taylor County. It touched down briefly, becoming a tornado, over a small lake there. It was fortunate that it only made a cameo appearance as the area of touchdown was a camping area. A nearby house was struck by lightning by the same storm. Although there was no fire, the damage to the house was significant. The lightning destroyed all of the wiring in the house and peeled the gutters off of it all the way around. The storms produced high winds over a large area. There were two injuries as a result of the winds. As the storms moved through Buena Vista County, high winds buffeted the Lakeside area. A campground on the west end of town was hit. A total of eight tents were downed by the winds, two of which were mangled beyond repair. Two campers were injured by flying debris. The injuries were minor cuts and neither camper required hospitalization.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindTingley$50,000no account filed
June 2010HailTingley$25,000no account filed
September 2013Thunderstorm WindTingley$15,000A semi truck was blown over on Highway 169.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindTingley$5,000no account filed
June 2002HailTingley$3,000no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindTingley$2,000no account filed
April 2025Thunderstorm WindTingley-Gust from personal weather station. Blinding rain was also reported.
July 2021Heavy RainTingley-Report from a trained spotter via social media of 2.65 inches of rain.
May 2019HailTingley-Emergency manager reported quarter sized hail.
May 2018HailTingley-Emergency manager reported quarter sized hail.
July 2008Heavy RainTingley-From a KCCI TV viewer it was reported that 5 inches of rain had fallen.

Every storm recorded in Ringgold County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Ellston4.7 miles8
Mortimer (historical)6.9 miles8
Knowlton7.5 miles8
Beaconsfield8.3 miles8
Diagonal8.3 miles8
Mount Ayr9.8 miles12
Polen10.9 miles8
Marshall (historical)11.3 miles13

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on TingleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2144911The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 462251. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.