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.
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
Winnibigoshish Lake Damlisted 1982
Population over time
2 figuresInger 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 212 | |
| 2020 | 200 | -12 (-6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Hibbing quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Bowstring Lake quadrangle1:24000
- 1976 USGS Bigfork quadrangle1:100000
- 1996 USGS Bowstring Lake quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
50 since 1992Regional 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/incendiarism | 18 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 11 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 August 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Chippewa National Forest | WEST BOW |
| 20 August 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Chippewa National Forest | MORNING FIRE |
| 2 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Chippewa National Forest | INGER |
| 10 July 2007 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Chippewa National Forest | COUNTY RD 36 |
| 13 June 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Chippewa National Forest | TWO MILE LAKE |
| 8 May 1994 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Chippewa National Forest | not named |
| 6 May 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Chippewa National Forest | not named |
| 5 May 2003 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Chippewa National Forest | CINCO |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
16 since 2008Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Inger | $6,000 | Winds were estimated at 60 mph, which blew down trees. The hail and winds occurred at the Lake Winnibigoshish Resort and Campground. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Inger | $1,500 | Some small trees were blown down across a road near the east end of Lake Winnibigoshish. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Inger | - | Six trees were down around Portage Lake with the largest being about 16 inches in diameter. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Inger | - | Several pine trees approximately 12 to 14 inches in diameter were snapped near the trunk. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Inger | - | Photos were received showing several large aspen trees that were downed by the storm. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Inger | - | Multiple 15 inch diameter aspen trees were blown down along County Road 35 south of Oslund. |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Inger | - | A few 6 to 8 diameter trees were blown down. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Inger | - | A tree fell down onto Minnesota State Highway 46, blocking the northbound lane. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Inger | - | Trees were blown down near Ball Club Lake. Tree limbs came down around Inger. |
| July 2009 | Hail | Inger | - | The hail fell on the northeastern side of Lake Winnibigoshish. |
| June 2024 | Hail | Inger | - | no account filed |
| May 2023 | Hail | Inger | - | no account filed |
| July 2021 | Hail | Inger | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Inger | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Inger | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Inger | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Max | 6.1 miles | 11 | |
| Oslund | 7.4 miles | 12 | |
| Spring Lake | 8.7 miles | 10 | |
| Jessie Lake | 9.5 miles | 9 | |
| Squaw Lake | 9.7 miles | 12 | |
| Bowstring | 10.0 miles | 9 | |
| Talmoon | 11.6 miles | 9 | |
| Wirt | 12.2 miles | 10 |
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 Inger | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3471973 | The 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.






