Ingomar, California

Unincorporated community in California, United States

37°10′49″N 120°58′06″W / 37.18028°N 120.96833°W / 37.18028; -120.96833CountryUnited StatesStateCaliforniaCountyMerced CountyElevation

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92 ft (28 m)

Ingomar was an unincorporated community in Merced County, California.^[1] It was located on the Southern Pacific Railroad 10.5 miles (17 km) northwest of Los Banos,^[2] at an elevation of 92 feet (28 m).^[1]

A post office operated at Ingomar from 1890 to 1921.^[2] The name was probably from the 1842 German play Ingomar, the Barbarian by Baron Eligius Franz Joseph von Münch-Bellinghausen, a popular work in the dramatic canon in the late 19th century.^[2]

A school was established at Ingomar in 1884, and the town was surveyed when the railroad was built through the area in 1889. The economy was centered on farming and dairying; in the early 1910s there was a school, blacksmith shop, general store, cream-shipping depot, and housing facility for railroad work crews. The town declined due to the closure of the post office and fouling of the water; only foundations remained as of 2009.^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Ingomar, California
^ ^a ^b ^c Durham, David L. (1998). California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State. Clovis, Calif.: Word Dancer Press. p. 786. ISBN 1-884995-14-4.
^ Snoke, Pat (February 26, 2009). "The ghost town of Ingomar". The Gustine Press-Standard. Gustine, CA. Retrieved December 3, 2023.