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Inger, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Bowstring Lake unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 56636. The Survey maps it on the Bowstring Lake quadrangle. 200 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,332 feet above sea level.

Inger within Itasca County

On record in Inger

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Inger fell from 212 to 200 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
2010212
2020200-12 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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

50 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Inger between 1992 and 2020, burning about 45 acres in total. None started naturally. 18 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
Arson/incendiarism18
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Debris and open burning6
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Other causes1

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
8 August 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreChippewa National ForestWEST BOW
20 August 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreChippewa National ForestMORNING FIRE
2 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreChippewa National ForestINGER
10 July 2007Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreChippewa National ForestCOUNTY RD 36
13 June 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreChippewa National ForestTWO MILE LAKE
8 May 1994Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreChippewa National Forestnot named
6 May 1993Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresChippewa National Forestnot named
5 May 2003Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreChippewa National ForestCINCO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Itasca County

Storms near this place

16 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Inger in 16 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 10 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail. 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
June 2010Thunderstorm WindInger$6,000Winds were estimated at 60 mph, which blew down trees. The hail and winds occurred at the Lake Winnibigoshish Resort and Campground.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindInger$1,500Some small trees were blown down across a road near the east end of Lake Winnibigoshish.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindInger-Six trees were down around Portage Lake with the largest being about 16 inches in diameter.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindInger-Several pine trees approximately 12 to 14 inches in diameter were snapped near the trunk.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindInger-Photos were received showing several large aspen trees that were downed by the storm.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindInger-Multiple 15 inch diameter aspen trees were blown down along County Road 35 south of Oslund.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindInger-A few 6 to 8 diameter trees were blown down.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindInger-A tree fell down onto Minnesota State Highway 46, blocking the northbound lane.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindInger-Trees were blown down near Ball Club Lake. Tree limbs came down around Inger.
July 2009HailInger-The hail fell on the northeastern side of Lake Winnibigoshish.
June 2024HailInger-no account filed
May 2023HailInger-no account filed
July 2021HailInger-no account filed
July 2016Thunderstorm WindInger-no account filed
June 2010HailInger-no account filed
June 2008HailInger-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Itasca 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
Max6.1 miles11
Oslund7.4 miles12
Spring Lake8.7 miles10
Jessie Lake9.5 miles9
Squaw Lake9.7 miles12
Bowstring10.0 miles9
Talmoon11.6 miles9
Wirt12.2 miles10

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 IngerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3471973The 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 656702. 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.