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Ingalls, Kansas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Ingalls Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67853. The Survey maps it on the Ingalls quadrangle. 252 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,671 feet above sea level.

Ingalls within Gray County

On record in Ingalls

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Ingalls fell from 306 to 252 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
2010306
2020252-54 (-18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

4 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Ingalls between 2017 and 2020, burning about 763 acres in total. 2 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
Natural2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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 June 2017Natural2.0 acresGray County13
21 June 2017Natural2.0 acresGray County14
8 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
23 February 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined749 acresGray CountyINGALLS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gray County

Storms near this place

60 of 120 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ingalls in 120 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 61 hail, 46 thunderstorm wind, 5 tornado, 5 heavy rain. 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
July 2015Thunderstorm WindIngalls$350,000Six center pivot sprinklers (out of 33 in this county) were overturned in this vicinity.
May 1996HailIngalls$200,000no account filed
May 2025HailIngalls-A report of 1 inch diameter hail was received from the Public.
May 2025HailIngalls-One inch hail was reported though MPING.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindIngalls-Strong winds reported.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindIngalls-Social media picture of a blown down shed, damage to metal fencing, and snapping of large tree limbs.
June 2024Flash FloodIngalls-Street and road flooding.
June 2024Flash FloodIngalls-Flooding reported.
June 2024Heavy RainIngalls-A report of 3.10 inches of rain reported.
July 2024HailIngalls-Report made via social media.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindIngalls-Power poles snapped, and irrigation sprinkles flipped - described as straight-line wind damage from northwest to southeast. Time estimated by radar.
July 2024HailIngalls-Report from mPING: Dime (0.75 in.).
June 2024Thunderstorm WindIngalls-Shed was destroyed.
February 2023Thunderstorm WindIngalls-Storm survey found no solid evidence for a tornado as this previous report has been corrected to thunderstorm wind damage. A video was received via social media of structural damage on a farm around 8 miles southwest of Cimarron.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindIngalls-One inch tree limbs broken and shingles blown off.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindIngalls-A truck was blown off the road east of Ingalls.
March 2021Heavy RainIngalls-Rainfall of 2.10 inches was observed.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindIngalls-There was damage done to a shed and there was also shingle damage.
May 2018HailIngalls-Multiple vehicles had windshields broke by the hail.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindIngalls-Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindIngalls-Winds were estimated to be 65 MPH.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindIngalls-Power lines were blown down at roads 8 and N.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindIngalls-Power poles were snapped off by the high wind.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindIngalls-Winds were estimated to be at least 60 MPH.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindIngalls-Part of a roof of a house was torn off by the high wind.
June 2015Tornado (EF0)Ingalls-This was a brief landspout tornado.
October 2015Thunderstorm WindIngalls-A powerpole was blown down by the wind.
October 2015Thunderstorm WindIngalls-A semi truck was blown over on highway 50 at this location.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindIngalls-Winds were estimated to be 55 to 65 MPH.
May 2013HailIngalls-The hail was quarter to ping pong ball size and was soft like slush balls.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindIngalls-Large tree limbs were blown down and a window was blown out of a house.
August 2013Heavy RainIngalls-Rainfall of 1.30 inches was reported.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindIngalls-A parked and empty semi truck and trailer were blown over by high wind.
July 2012Heavy RainIngalls-Rainfall of 1.67 was observed.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindIngalls-Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH.
May 2010Tornado (EF0)Ingalls-A brief landspout made contact for about 2 minutes.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindIngalls-The high wind gust was measured by the KSN Weather Lab at the Ingalls Grade School.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindIngalls-The observer estimated winds of 60 mph.
September 2009HailIngalls-Only a few hail stones were 1 in diameter. The remainder were around 1/2.
May 2008Tornado (EF0)Ingalls-There was a brief spin-up making contact with the ground that lasted about 45 seconds to a minute.
May 2007HailIngalls-The hail destroyed 80 percent of the wheat.
August 2007Heavy RainIngalls-Heavy rain fell during the night with 4.75 inches measured.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindIngalls-This wind was measured on KSN-TV weather lab equipment
April 2003Thunderstorm WindIngalls-Measured at a weatherlab
October 2000Tornado (F0)Ingalls-Transparent landspout was photographed by off duty Meteorologist.
April 1993Tornado (F0)Ingalls-Tornado touched down briefly in an open field. No damage reported or observed.
July 2023HailIngalls-no account filed
December 2022HailIngalls-no account filed
July 2021HailIngalls-no account filed
May 2020HailIngalls-no account filed
May 2020HailIngalls-no account filed
May 2020HailIngalls-no account filed
May 2020HailIngalls-no account filed
July 2020Thunderstorm WindIngalls-no account filed
July 2020Thunderstorm WindIngalls-no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindIngalls-no account filed
May 2019HailIngalls-no account filed
May 2019Funnel CloudIngalls-no account filed
May 2018HailIngalls-no account filed
May 2018HailIngalls-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gray 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
Cimarron5.8 miles12
Charleston6.4 miles12
Wettick10.3 miles12
Haggard15.1 miles12
Montezuma16.0 miles12
Ensign16.8 miles12
Copeland21.8 miles12

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 IngallsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q733475The 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 471650. 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.