Ingraham, Illinois
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Pixley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62434. It lies near Indian Point. The Survey maps it on the Sailor Springs quadrangle. It stands 486 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Sailor Springs quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Sailor Springs quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Olney quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
3 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Ingraham between 2009 and 2010, burning about 7 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 41 |
| 8 October 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | POEHLER |
| 17 October 2010 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | SCOTT |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Ingraham: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shoots Stone Quarry No. 2 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
14 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ingraham in 14 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 lightning, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ingraham | 1 hurt, $100,000 | A mobile home was blown over and destroyed, injuring one person inside. A grain bin was blown 200 feet. |
| May 2013 | Lightning | Ingraham | $100,000 | Ten oil tank batteries were ignited by a lightning strike west of Ingraham. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ingraham | $10,000 | A power pole was snapped and power lines were knocked down. |
| May 2016 | Hail | Ingraham | $6,000 | The hail damaged the shutters and cracked the windows of a house. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ingraham | $3,000 | A power pole was blown down. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ingraham | $2,000 | A tree was blown down onto Ingraham Road. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ingraham | $2,000 | A one-foot wide tree was blown over onto Ingraham Road. |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ingraham | - | A large tree branch was blown onto a home. |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ingraham | - | A small farm outbuilding was blown over. |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ingraham | - | A tree was blown down onto a road. |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ingraham | - | An emergency manager estimated sustained winds of 50 mph with gusts to around 60 mph. |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ingraham | - | The roof of a house suffered significant damage. |
| September 2018 | Flash Flood | Ingraham | - | Several bands of rain associated with the remnants of Tropical Storm Gordon impacted eastern Clay County from September 7th through the 8th. The ground was saturated with nearly 4.50 to 7.50 inches of rain when a particularly heavy band of rain moved into southeast Illinois during the afternoon of September 8th. An additional 2.00 inches of rain in less than three hours produced flash flooding in eastern Clay County in the early afternoon. Many county roads were covered with water and streets in Clay City were flooded. |
| May 2016 | Hail | Ingraham | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wendelin | 3.2 miles | 9 | |
| Sailor Springs | 5.2 miles | 9 | |
| Bible Grove | 6.4 miles | 9 | |
| Hoosier | 6.8 miles | 9 | |
| Louisville | 10.0 miles | 9 | |
| Clay City | 10.2 miles | 11 | |
| Hord | 10.5 miles | 9 | |
| Maysville | 11.0 miles | 11 |
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 Ingraham | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6032986 | The 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 410899. 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.




