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Marxville, Wisconsin

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Berry town. It lies in ZIP code area 53560. The Survey maps it on the Black Earth quadrangle. It stands 902 feet above sea level.

Marxville within Dane County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

67 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Marxville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 245 acres in total. None 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 burning38
Equipment and vehicle use19
Recreation and ceremony3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
17 July 2012Equipment and vehicle use8.5 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesWHIPPORWILL
13 July 2001Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 June 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 June 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCOLLINS RIDGE
5 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2019-40
30 May 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 May 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dane County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Marxville: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Marxville PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Dane County

Storms near this place

5 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marxville in 5 storm reports between 2004 and 2026: 3 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
June 2004Tornado (F0)Marxville$3,000A brief tornado spun up along Old Settlers Rd., just south of the Township line (or about 0.2 mile south of of the intersection of Old Settlers Rd. and Katzenbuechel Rd.). One home had a couple windows damaged by flying debris, and several large trees were uprooted or twisted/sheared on a couple properties. The typical sequence of events was observed by the home's owner's - heavy rain and some wind, then calm, then the freight-train noise, and they could barely close the front door. The responsible supercell moved southeast toward Madison and eventually spun up another tornado on the southwest side of Madison.
April 2026HailMarxville-Trained spotter reports 1.25 inch diameter hail west of Sun Prairie.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindMarxville-Trees down.
June 2024HailMarxville-no account filed
August 2006HailMarxville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dane 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
Aldens Corners (historical)2.3 miles15
Lutheran Hill3.4 miles15
Martinsville3.8 miles15
Roxbury4.1 miles15
Springfield Corners4.9 miles15
Cross Plains5.3 miles16
Black Earth5.9 miles15
Ashton7.2 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 MarxvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6778680The 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 1569101. 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.