Ingalls, Arkansas facts for kids

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Ingalls is an unincorporated community in Bradley County, Arkansas, United States, five miles south of Hermitage. Ingalls is situated at 161 feet (49 meters) above mean sea level. Genesee & Wyoming owns railroad that goes through Ingalls. The Fordyce & Princeton Railroad had purchased the railroad after the liquidation of Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad.

Ingalls was originally known as Crowtown but acquired the name Ingalls, (the same as John James Ingalls a U.S. senator from Kansas) at the insistence of the management of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad. Warren and Saline River Railroad has a link to railroad maps of Bradley County.

Jerry Wayne Ross of Mount Olive was killed in action on 1966-09-26 in the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C. has Jerry Wayne Ross named; his (mailing) address was Ingalls, Arkansas.

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