Maxeys, Georgia
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Maxeys census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30667. The Survey maps it on the Maxeys quadrangle. 198 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 751 feet above sea level.
On record in Maxeys
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 2 records
Durham Placelisted 2017- Maxeys Historic Districtlisted 2022
Population over time
2 figuresMaxeys fell from 224 to 198 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 224 | |
| 2020 | 198 | -26 (-12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Maxeys quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Athens quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
144 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 144 fires within 5 miles of Maxeys between 1992 and 2020, burning about 797 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 9 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 burning | 99 |
| Natural | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 9 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2001 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2002-OGLETHORPE-010 |
| 28 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2017-OGLETHORPE-005 |
| 16 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 5.5 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-OGLETHORPE-012 |
| 15 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2012-OGLETHORPE-008 |
| 15 September 1996 | Debris and open burning | 2.4 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 11 September 1998 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.2 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 1 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 August 1998 | Debris and open burning | 1.3 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Maxeys: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Briscoe Mine (Drake Mine) | Gold | Past Producer | Vein |
Storms near this place
5 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Maxeys in 5 storm reports between 2002 and 2017: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Maxeys | $7,000 | The Oglethorpe County Emergency Manager reported trees and power lines blown down from Maxeys to Lexington. Locations include Union Point Road in Maxeys and Upson Court in Lexington. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Maxeys | $7,000 | The public reported that the roof was ripped off a barn by downburst thunderstorm winds. Part of the side of the barn was also torn off the structure by the strong winds. The resultant debris was scattered for several hundred feet downstream. |
| November 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Maxeys | $5,000 | The Oglethorpe county 911 center reported that approximately 20 trees were blown down. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Maxeys | $1,500 | The Oglethorpe County 911 Center reported that four trees and a power line were blown down in the Maxeys area. |
| April 2005 | Hail | Maxeys | - | The public reported penny-sized hail at a local grocery store. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bowling Green (historical) | 2.0 miles | 10 | |
| Stephens | 2.9 miles | 10 | |
| Hutchins | 6.0 miles | 10 | |
| Hogan | 8.6 miles | 11 | |
| Lexington | 8.6 miles | 11 | |
| Crawford | 8.9 miles | 11 | |
| Philomath | 9.8 miles | 13 | |
| Arnoldsville | 10.7 miles | 11 |
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 Maxeys | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2734166 | The 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 328731. 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.






