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Ingersoll, Oklahoma

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Cherokee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73728. The Survey maps it on the Ingersoll quadrangle. It stands 1,204 feet above sea level.

Ingersoll within Alfalfa County

On record in Ingersoll

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Storms near this place

9 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ingersoll in 9 storm reports between 1997 and 2016: 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 flash flood. 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 1999Thunderstorm WindIngersoll$25,000no account filed
July 2000LightningIngersoll$20,000Lightning struck an oil tank 3 miles west of Ingersoll, causing it to explode.
April 1999Thunderstorm WindIngersoll$15,000no account filed
August 1997Thunderstorm WindIngersoll$10,000Severe thunderstorm winds blew an empty cattle tractor-trailer over into a ditch.
June 2005Flash FloodIngersoll-At 5:10 pm CST, Alfalfa County law enforcement personnel reported that U.S. Highway 64 was closed due to water over the roadway 3 miles west of Ingersoll, OK.
March 2000HailIngersoll-Hail was reported near the intersection of Highway 11 and Highway 38.
May 2016HailIngersoll-no account filed
July 2004HailIngersoll-no account filed
April 2003HailIngersoll-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Alfalfa 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
Cherokee3.5 miles8
Driftwood6.0 miles8
Ashley6.9 miles8
Burlington7.3 miles8
Yewed7.9 miles8
Lambert8.0 miles8
Byron9.0 miles8
Amorita10.4 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 IngersollAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6032384The 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 1100526. 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.

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.