Maxwell, Illinois

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Maxwell Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62692. The Survey maps it on the New Berlin quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Maxwell within Sangamon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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.

1924 USGS Waverly quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1926 USGS Waverly quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1983 USGS New Berlin quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Maxwell (historical) in 2012, burning about 1 acre in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Equipment and vehicle use	1

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
8 July 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	12-066

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sangamon 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Prouty	3.7 miles	12
Loami	4.0 miles	12
Huffaker	4.2 miles	12
Lowder	6.3 miles	13
New Berlin	6.4 miles	12
Sudduth (historical)	6.6 miles	12
Bates	6.8 miles	12
Compro	6.9 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 422951. 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.