Maxville, Montana
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Philipsburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59858. It stands on Boulder Creek. The Survey maps it on the Maxville quadrangle. 138 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,839 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresMaxville grew from 130 to 138 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 | 130 | |
| 2020 | 138 | +8 (+6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 16 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.
- 1908 USGS Philipsburg quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1947 USGS Butte quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Butte quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1960 USGS Butte quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Butte quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Maxville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1993 USGS Philipsburg quadrangle1:100000
- 1996 USGS Maxville quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
25 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Maxville between 1992 and 2019, burning about 23 acres in total. 16 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 16 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 September 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | not named |
| 5 August 2004 | Natural | under an acre | Southwestern Land Office | not named |
| 30 August 2015 | Natural | under an acre | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | ROYAL BASIN |
| 27 August 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Southwestern Land Office | not named |
| 24 August 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | HENDERSON |
| 24 August 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | MIDNIGHT STACK |
| 2 August 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Southwestern Land Office | PICKETT GULCH |
| 15 August 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest | BOULDER FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 105 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 105 workings within 5 miles of Maxville: 42 past producers, 32 unknowns, 25 occurrences, 5 prospects. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Gold, Silver, Phosphorus-Phosphates. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apex Mine | Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc, Copper | Producer | Unknown | |
| Banker Claim | Silver, Lead, Gold, Zinc, Fluorine-Fluorite | Past Producer | Galena, Lead, Sphalerite | |
| Douglas Creek Syncline | Phosphorus-Phosphates, Vanadium, Uranium, REE, Nickel, Chromium, Fluorine-Fluorite | Past Producer | ||
| Durand Mine | Gold, Silver, Arsenic | Past Producer | Gold | |
| Gird Creek Syncline | Phosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Vanadium, REE, Nickel, Chromium, Fluorine-Fluorite | Past Producer | ||
| Henderson District | Tungsten, Gold, Copper, Lead | Past Producer | FISSURE VEINS, REPLACEMENT, SHEAR ZONE, PLACER | |
| Henderson Gulch Placer | Gold, Tungsten, Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | 1866, 1957 | |
| Johnson Claim | Gold, Copper | Occurrence | Copper, Gold | |
| Key-Durand | Lead, Zinc | Unknown | ||
| Londonderry Mine | Silver, Gold, Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | Vein |
Storms near this place
3 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Maxville in 3 storm reports between 1996 and 2009: 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2009 | Hail | Maxville | - | A report of one inch hail received from the VFW Post in Maxville. |
| August 1997 | Hail | Maxville | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Hail | Maxville | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stone | 2.8 miles | 20 | |
| Princeton | 4.9 miles | 16 | |
| Sherryl | 6.1 miles | 20 | |
| Hall | 8.6 miles | 20 | |
| Philipsburg | 9.7 miles | 15 | |
| Granite | 10.2 miles | 17 | |
| Clark (historical) | 10.5 miles | 15 | |
| Rumsey | 12.0 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 Q5656963 | 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 786949. 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.







