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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.

Ingraham within Clay County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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 2009

Regional 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/undetermined1
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
23 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources41
8 October 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesPOEHLER
17 October 2010Debris and open burning3.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesSCOTT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Shoots Stone Quarry No. 2Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

14 since 2009

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2016Thunderstorm WindIngraham1 hurt, $100,000A mobile home was blown over and destroyed, injuring one person inside. A grain bin was blown 200 feet.
May 2013LightningIngraham$100,000Ten oil tank batteries were ignited by a lightning strike west of Ingraham.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindIngraham$10,000A power pole was snapped and power lines were knocked down.
May 2016HailIngraham$6,000The hail damaged the shutters and cracked the windows of a house.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindIngraham$3,000A power pole was blown down.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindIngraham$2,000A tree was blown down onto Ingraham Road.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindIngraham$2,000A one-foot wide tree was blown over onto Ingraham Road.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindIngraham-A large tree branch was blown onto a home.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindIngraham-A small farm outbuilding was blown over.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindIngraham-A tree was blown down onto a road.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindIngraham-An emergency manager estimated sustained winds of 50 mph with gusts to around 60 mph.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindIngraham-The roof of a house suffered significant damage.
September 2018Flash FloodIngraham-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 2016HailIngraham-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clay 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
Wendelin3.2 miles9
Sailor Springs5.2 miles9
Bible Grove6.4 miles9
Hoosier6.8 miles9
Louisville10.0 miles9
Clay City10.2 miles11
Hord10.5 miles9
Maysville11.0 miles11

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 IngrahamAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6032986The 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.