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Maxwell, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Martindale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78656. It lies near Koeglar Hill. The Survey maps it on the Uhland quadrangle. It stands 597 feet above sea level.

Maxwell within Caldwell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

109 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 109 fires within 5 miles of Maxwell between 1998 and 2020, burning about 1,232 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 were 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 burning59
Equipment and vehicle use24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Arson/incendiarism2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1
Natural1
Fireworks1

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
6 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service142/2720
4 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use40 acresTexas A & M Forest Service109/110
4 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILLIAM PETUS/21
3 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLONG ROAD FIRE
23 September 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service142
23 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTHIRD ST
22 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6016 2720
2 September 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service130@BLACK ANKLE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Caldwell County

Storms near this place

11 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Maxwell in 11 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 4 hail, 4 flash flood, 3 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
June 2007Thunderstorm WindMaxwell$500,000Severe thunderstorm winds knocked over power lines between Maxwell and Lockhart, and blew down trees at the Lockhart ISD Freshman Campus as well as in the town of Maxwell. The severe winds also rolled over a mobile home over at Lockhart. Hundreds of customers were reported to be without power for several hours. City administrators estimated it would take more than a month to repair damages.
May 2002HailMaxwell$100,000Large hail broke windows and damaged vehicle windshields around Maxwell.
October 2002Thunderstorm WindMaxwell$80,000Severe thunderstorm winds struck the area from Maxwell to northeast of Lockhart. The utility company reported that the storm blew down numerous trees and power line poles along this path.
September 1997Thunderstorm WindMaxwell$15,000no account filed
May 2025HailMaxwell-A thunderstorm produced ping pong ball size hail near the San Marcos Regional Airport.
October 2021Flash FloodMaxwell-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding. Several roads were flooded in central and western parts of the Caldwell County. Rainfall totals around Lockhart were as high as 7.64 inches.
March 2018Flash FloodMaxwell-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding closing numerous roads in Caldwell County.
April 2016Flash FloodMaxwell-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing 18 roads across the county.
March 2012Flash FloodMaxwell-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding of several roads and bridges in the vicinity of Misty Lane (CR229) between San Marcos and Lockhart.
May 2014HailMaxwell-no account filed
March 2005HailMaxwell-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Caldwell 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
Reedville2.8 miles13
Martindale3.5 miles13
Uhland5.3 miles13
Lockhart6.5 miles15
Fentress8.7 miles13
Mineral Springs (historical)9.5 miles15
Niederwald9.5 miles18
Joliet9.8 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 MaxwellAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6796066The 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 1341098. 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.