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Ringo, Kansas

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1884 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66743. The Survey maps it on the Girard quadrangle. 111 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 978 feet above sea level.

Ringo within Crawford County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 22 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

69 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Ringo between 2015 and 2020, burning about 338 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
Debris and open burning42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Fireworks2
Equipment and vehicle use2
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
7 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service183
6 July 2018Fireworksunder an acreKansas Forest Service018-081
4 July 2015Fireworksunder an acreKansas Forest Service39
4 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service018-058
12 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service018-017
4 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresKansas Forest Service018-046
30 April 2015Debris and open burning10 acresKansas Forest Service28
16 April 2018Debris and open burning10 acresKansas Forest Service018-052

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford County

Storms near this place

5 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ringo in 5 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 3 flash flood, 1 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 2025Thunderstorm WindRingo$45,000A NWS storm survey determined that straight line winds as high as 73 mph caused damage to several roofs and downed large branches.
May 2019Flash FloodRingo-Water was reported over the roadway on Highway 47 between Girard and Pittsburg impeding traffic.
July 2013Flash FloodRingo-The intersection of Highway 47 and 190th Street was flooded.
May 2013Flash FloodRingo-Highway 47 east of Girard was flooded.
September 2001HailRingo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crawford 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
Edison0.8 miles24
Radley1.7 miles21
Dunkirk2.0 miles24
Polk2.6 miles24
South Radley2.6 miles21
Franklin3.2 miles24
Capaldo3.4 miles24
Arma4.0 miles24

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 RingoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17199077The 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 475142. 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.