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Maxdale, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Southwest Bell census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76549. It stands on Gann Branch. The Survey maps it on the Ding Dong quadrangle.

Maxdale within Bell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

Fires near this place

169 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 169 fires within 5 miles of Maxdale between 2005 and 2020, burning about 788 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined78
Debris and open burning76
Equipment and vehicle use8
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
5 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service347 OAKALLA LOOP
3 September 2015Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHICKORY DR.
26 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service26511 FM 2607
19 September 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceDEER RUN
12 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1812 WOLFRIDGE ROAD
1 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceRIVER RIDGE RD. HWY 195
9 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1411 SHADY LOOP
9 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMAXDALE/ MAYBERRY PARK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bell County

Storms near this place

4 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Maxdale in 4 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
October 2022Thunderstorm WindMaxdale$10,000Thunderstorm winds caused damage to a property on Wolfridge Rd in far southwestern Bell County. Minor roof damage was observed in pictures, a tree was split and fell on a chicken coop, a large wood shed was shifted off its cinderblocks and one wall partially collapsed, and other heavy objects on the property were pushed into each other. Damage was also reported to surrounding properties.
July 2025Flash FloodMaxdale-Broadcast media reported that flood waters covered Oakalla Road at the Clear Creek Bridge, between Oakalla and Maxdale, causing the road to be closed.
May 2001HailMaxdale-no account filed
March 1999HailMaxdale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bell 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
Ding Dong3.3 miles15
Mountain View Estates4.0 miles16
Youngsport6.6 miles15
Cedar Valley10.2 miles15
Chaffee Village10.4 miles15
Killeen10.5 miles18
Lone Star10.6 miles18
McNair Village10.7 miles15

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 MaxdaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q113331318The 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 1380156. 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.