Ingalls, Indiana
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Green Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46048. It stands on Foster Branch. The Survey maps it on the Ingalls quadrangle. 2,223 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 866 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresIngalls fell from 2,394 to 2,223 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 2,394 | |
| 2020 | 2,223 | -171 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 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.
- 1952 USGS Ingalls quadrangle1:24000
- 1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Ingalls quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS New Castle quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
447 words on this townshipHistory of Madison County, Indiana, from 1820 to 1874 : Giving a General Review of Principal Events, Statistical and Historical Items, Derived from Official Sources, published 1874 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Green Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Green Township - 447 words.
Fires near this place
6 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Ingalls in 2004, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 April 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 3 April 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 29 April 2004 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 7 March 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 12 March 2004 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 10 March 2004 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
14 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ingalls in 14 storm reports between 2003 and 2022: 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 hail, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2011 | Tornado (EF1) | Ingalls | $105,000 | A small, brief tornado touched down in extreme southern Madison County just west of the town of Ingalls at approximately 12:30 AM EST. The tornado began near County Road 1050 South, just west of County Road 750 West, pushing the roof off of a house. From there the tornado continued north, damaging a large barn up the hill north of the flooding Lick Creek. The tornado also destroyed a pole barn, damaged a home, and a 30 foot long trailer along County Road 1000 South. Further damage to trees occurred across the road from the pole barn before the tornado lifted. Based on the damage to the homes and barns, the tornado produced EF1 intensity damage with maximum winds estimated at just over 100 mph. The tornadoes path was just over a half mile long. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ingalls | $8,000 | A few trees were downed in southern Madison County due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| July 2022 | Flash Flood | Ingalls | $5,000 | Multiple road closures across the county due to high water and water flowing over the roads. Rainfall reports indicated a strong rainfall gradient over Anderson, ranging from 2.63 on the south side to 5.81 on the north side of town; the episode's greatest observation was 8.70 in Elwood. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ingalls | $4,000 | Trees were reported down on roadways in the town of Ingalls. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ingalls | $2,000 | Power lines were downed near the intersection of State Road 36 and County Road 900 South due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ingalls | $2,000 | A tree was blown onto a house due to damaging thunderstorm winds. Portions of State Road 9 and various county roads had to be shut down due fallen utility poles, limbs, and power lines. |
| May 2015 | Flash Flood | Ingalls | $1,000 | Several inches of water was flowing over a roadway near Meridian Street. |
| May 2015 | Flash Flood | Ingalls | $1,000 | The northbound lane of State Route 13, one mile north of Interstate 69, was impassable due to thunderstorm heavy rainfall. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ingalls | - | A 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust was measured in Ingalls. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ingalls | - | Trees were downed. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ingalls | - | Tree damage |
| May 2008 | Hail | Ingalls | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Ingalls | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ingalls | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alfont | 0.6 miles | 10 | |
| Sunview | 1.9 miles | 10 | |
| Idlewold | 3.4 miles | 10 | |
| Pendleton | 4.2 miles | 9 | |
| Hardscrabble | 4.8 miles | 13 | |
| Huntsville | 5.3 miles | 14 | |
| Lapel | 8.0 miles | 13 | |
| Fishersburg | 8.4 miles | 13 |
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 Ingalls | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2437369 | 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 436815. 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.




