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Ingalls, Michigan

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Mellen Township. It stands on Little Kelley Creek. The Survey maps it on the Stephenson quadrangle. It stands 709 feet above sea level.

Ingalls within Menominee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 8 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

62 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Ingalls between 1992 and 2019, burning about 104 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 were 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 burning25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Equipment and vehicle use7
Recreation and ceremony5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural2
Smoking2
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
6 September 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 September 2005Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2005Equipment and vehicle use3.6 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 June 2018Debris and open burning1.7 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRANGE LINE ROAD
5 June 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 June 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMELLEN TOWNSHIP FD 0000019 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Menominee County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Ingalls: 4 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
B & K PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Boonies Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bridge Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Cow Chip Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Daggett PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Menimonee County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Packard Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Menominee County

Storms near this place

2 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ingalls in 2 storm reports in 2002: 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
May 2002HailIngalls-Nickel sized hail was reported.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindIngalls-Several large trees and power lines were blown down.

Every storm recorded in Menominee 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
Stephenson2.7 miles8
Wallace3.5 miles8
Palestine4.6 miles8
Koss5.1 miles8
Daggett6.0 miles8
Longrie6.4 miles8
Kells6.5 miles8
Carbondale6.8 miles8

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 Q6031833The 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 629032. 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.