Maxville, Indiana

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1994. It lies in ZIP code area 47531. It stands on Crooked Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fulda quadrangle. It stands 397 feet above sea level.

Maxville within Spencer County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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.

1900 USGS St Meinrad quadrangle1:62500
1903 USGS St Meinrad quadrangle1:62500
1903 USGS St. Meinrad quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1960 USGS Fulda quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000
1994 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

7 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Maxville between 1999 and 2006, burning about 77 acres 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
Debris and open burning	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Smoking	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
5 July 2001	Smoking	under an acre	Hoosier National Forest	TROY
11 March 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Hoosier National Forest	BRUSHY FORK
29 February 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
29 February 2004	Debris and open burning	2.6 acres	Hoosier National Forest	PONDEROSA FIRE
14 February 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
12 February 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Hoosier National Forest	RAINBOW
3 November 1999	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Hoosier National Forest	TELL CITY HILL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Spencer County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Maxville: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum, Contained or Metal, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Hawesville	Aluminum, Contained or Metal	Producer
	Tell City Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Spencer 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
Evanston	3.1 miles	15
New Boston	4.0 miles	15
Schley	4.4 miles	15
Lamar	6.8 miles	15
Newtonville	6.9 miles	15
Huffman	7.3 miles	15
Liberal	7.6 miles	15
Fulda	7.8 miles	15

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 Maxville	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q21197824	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 438749. 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.