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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.

Maxville within Buffalo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

2 since 2019

Regional 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 burning2

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
4 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources27
20 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources26

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Buffalo County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Buffalo Slough Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Maxville PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Bernard Traun Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Emery Anderson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Gifford Shale QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Hurlburt Dolomite DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Kralewski Dolomite DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Merville Smith Dolomite DopositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Tibodeau Dolomite DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Traun QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Buffalo County

Storms near this place

5 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1999Thunderstorm WindMaxville$25,000no account filed
July 2016Thunderstorm WindMaxville$7,000Around two dozen trees were blown down in the township of Maxville.
August 2006HailMaxville-no account filed
March 1998Tornado (F0)Maxville-no account filed
August 1996HailMaxville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Buffalo 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
Savoy (historical)1.8 miles13
Misha Mokwa2.4 miles16
Urne6.6 miles19
Nelson7.7 miles16
Springdale (historical)12.4 miles12
Modena12.4 miles19
Tell12.9 miles19
Alma15.4 miles20

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 MaxvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6796050The 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.