Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Its Register listing is the Welborn 'Doc' Barton House. Below: maps from 1892 on and the census since 1930.
The Ingalls post office opened in 1888, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Soule (1887), opened inside today’s city and later closed.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Ingalls’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Ingalls. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Ingalls.
From Wikipedia’s history of Ingalls.
The first post office was established in May 1887 with the name Soule until May 1888. The community was renamed for Kansas senator John James Ingalls.
Ingalls was a candidate for county seat in the late 1880s, and once held the county offices.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Between 173 and 328 people in every census since 1930.
10 censuses, 1930–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Ingalls’ Wikipedia page.
Nobody well known was born in Ingalls itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Ingalls’s post office has been open since 1888. Another post office, Soule, opened and closed inside today’s town.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
The Ingalls post office opened in 1888, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
One place: the Welborn 'Doc' Barton House (listed 2010).
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →
From Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
