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Maxville, Arkansas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1989. It stands in East Sullivan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72521. It stands on Wooldridge Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cave City quadrangle.

Maxville within Sharp County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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.

Fires near this place

99 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of Maxville between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,380 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 23 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
Debris and open burning39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Arson/incendiarism23
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
3 September 1998Smoking1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2004Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1999Arson/incendiarism30 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2016Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2011Natural10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 2007Debris and open burning8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 1997Arson/incendiarism20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sharp County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Maxville: 4 past producers, 3 unknowns, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Reichartz LandStoneUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Ball MineManganesePast Producer1918
Jackson ProspectManganeseOccurrence
K D Aldridge ProspectManganesePast Producer1917
Matlock MineManganesePast Producer1918
Story MineManganesePast Producer1918
Woodyard ProspectManganeseOccurrence

Every working recorded in Sharp County

Storms near this place

2 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Maxville in 2 storm reports between 2022 and 2025: 1 heavy rain, 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 2025Flash FloodMaxville-The intersection of East Red Barn and North Mockingbird roads was under water.
January 2022Heavy RainMaxville-COCORAHS observer near evening shade measured 4.88 inches of rain since the day before.

Every storm recorded in Sharp 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
Amateur (historical)2.7 miles8
Cave City3.7 miles19
Sidney4.5 miles8
Balboa (historical)4.9 miles8
Evening Shade6.0 miles8
Poughkeepsie7.8 miles8
Aetna8.1 miles11
Mobley (historical)9.2 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 66164. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, 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.