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Jingo, Kansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Sugar Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66040. The Survey maps it on the New Lancaster quadrangle. It stands 994 feet above sea level.

Jingo within Miami County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

24 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Jingo between 2012 and 2020, burning about 79 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/undetermined17
Debris and open burning4
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
28 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKansas Forest Service180076
26 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service15-0132
16 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service15-0125
8 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
20 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresMarais des Cygnes National Wildlife RefugeHIGHWAY 69 SOUTH
7 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service180061
5 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service32
27 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service180041

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Miami County

Storms near this place

3 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jingo in 3 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
April 2025HailJingo-Quarter sized hail was reported along US Highway 69 north of Linn Valley.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindJingo-There were 15-20 power poles snapped or leaned over along Highway 69 at Jingo intersection. These winds then moved east and produced widespread damage in western and central Bates County, Missouri.
July 1995HailJingo-Miami County Emergency Management Director reported one inch hail at Jingo.

Every storm recorded in Miami 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
New Lancaster4.5 miles15
Drexel Corner5.1 miles15
Fontana7.7 miles15
Block9.2 miles17
Henson11.4 miles17
Beagle13.8 miles15
Somerset14.4 miles17
Ringer14.4 miles17

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 JingoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17199003The 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 477639. 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.