Maxville, Wisconsin
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Maxville town. It lies in ZIP code area 54736. It stands on Little Buffalo Slough. The Survey maps it on the Ella quadrangle. It stands 771 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1935 USGS Arkansaw quadrangle1:48000
- 1941 USGS Arkansaw quadrangle1:62500
- 1942 USGS Arkansaw quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Ella quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Hastings quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Hastings quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
2 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Maxville in 2019, burning under an acre in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 May 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 27 |
| 20 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 26 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 11 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Maxville: 5 past producers, 5 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buffalo Slough Gravel Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Maxville Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Bernard Traun Limestone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Emery Anderson Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Gifford Shale Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Hurlburt Dolomite Deposit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| Kralewski Dolomite Deposit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| Merville Smith Dolomite Doposit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| Tibodeau Dolomite Deposit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| Traun Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
5 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Maxville in 5 storm reports between 1996 and 2016: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Maxville | $25,000 | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Maxville | $7,000 | Around two dozen trees were blown down in the township of Maxville. |
| August 2006 | Hail | Maxville | - | no account filed |
| March 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Maxville | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Hail | Maxville | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Savoy (historical) | 1.8 miles | 13 | |
| Misha Mokwa | 2.4 miles | 16 | |
| Urne | 6.6 miles | 19 | |
| Nelson | 7.7 miles | 16 | |
| Springdale (historical) | 12.4 miles | 12 | |
| Modena | 12.4 miles | 19 | |
| Tell | 12.9 miles | 19 | |
| Alma | 15.4 miles | 20 |
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 Q6796050 | 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 1569139. 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.









