Maxville, Oregon

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Wallowa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97885. The Survey maps it on the Akers Butte quadrangle. It stands 4,058 feet above sea level.

Maxville within Wallowa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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.

1955 USGS Grangeville quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1959 USGS Grangeville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Akers Butte quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Wallowa quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Akers Butte quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

63 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Maxville between 1992 and 2019, burning about 72 acres in total. 54 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	54
Recreation and ceremony	6
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
9 September 2006	Natural	under an acre	Wallowa Unit	FINGER
6 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	DOUBLE STRUCK
3 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Wallowa Unit	SLOAN POINT PRONG
23 September 1996	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Wallowa Unit	GROSSMAN
2 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Wallowa Unit	UPPER COUGER POND
16 September 2001	Natural	4.2 acres	Wallowa Unit	COAL DOCKS
12 September 1996	Natural	9.0 acres	Wallowa Unit	SHEROD MEADOWS
12 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Wallowa Unit	SIMMONS DRAW

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wallowa County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Maxville: 7 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Wallowa 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
Grossman (historical)	4.3 miles	10
Eustis (historical)	5.8 miles	11
Promise	6.6 miles	10
Eden	11.1 miles	11
Wallowa	12.2 miles	10
Minam	12.3 miles	10
Troy	14.9 miles	11
Flora	16.9 miles	9

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 Q6796048	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 1145887. 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.