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Maxbass, North Dakota

5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1958. It stands in Maxbass City. It lies in ZIP code area 58760. The Survey maps it on the Maxbass quadrangle. 89 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,506 feet above sea level.

Maxbass within Bottineau County

Population over time

2 figures

Maxbass grew from 84 to 89 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.

YearPeople Change
201084
202089+5 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 5 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

3 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Maxbass in 2017, burning about 12 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
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
10 July 2017Natural1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service2017-3
3 December 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceSLOUGH
18 October 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceDITCH FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bottineau County

Storms near this place

20 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Maxbass in 20 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 18 hail, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2025HailMaxbass$50,000Damage to home, vehicles, and buildings.
September 2019HailMaxbass$30,000A window was broken on the home, and holes were punched in the siding.
June 2007HailMaxbass-No damage was reported. There were very few large stones and most stones were much smaller.
June 2000Tornado (F0)Maxbass-Brief touchdown in open field.
July 2025HailMaxbass-no account filed
July 2025HailMaxbass-no account filed
June 2020HailMaxbass-no account filed
June 2020HailMaxbass-no account filed
September 2019HailMaxbass-no account filed
July 2017HailMaxbass-no account filed
July 2017HailMaxbass-no account filed
July 2016HailMaxbass-no account filed
May 2012HailMaxbass-no account filed
June 2011HailMaxbass-no account filed
June 2011HailMaxbass-no account filed
June 2004HailMaxbass-no account filed
June 2003HailMaxbass-no account filed
June 2003HailMaxbass-no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindMaxbass-no account filed
August 2000HailMaxbass-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bottineau 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
Dunning5.4 miles5
Eckman6.2 miles5
Hurd6.6 miles5
Renville8.9 miles5
Newburg12.1 miles6
Russell13.2 miles6
Forfar13.3 miles9
Lansford14.0 miles9

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 MaxbassAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2062101The 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 1030123. 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.

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.