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History · Maxville

Maxville’s post office opened in 1912

Most of Maxville was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 2012. Below: 3 old photos and papers and maps from 1971 on.

1912first post office
0on the National Register
0.0%homes built before 1940
3old photos & papers
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From Maxville’s archive · credits on each photo
Quick answers

How Maxville began

When was Maxville founded?

1912

The Maxville post office opened in 1912, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 138114 years
Founding year: the first Maxville post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Maxville’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenOnly 3 old photos are in the public archives. The rest are in attics and albums.
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Start Maxville’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Maxville’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Date a photo3 archive items have no date. Guess the decade.+2Retake an old viewMoonlight Mining Camp: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
The story so far

Maxville, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Maxville yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Maxville is a census-designated place in Granite County, Montana, United States. As of the 2020 census, Maxville had a population of 138. Montana Highway 1 passes through the community. It is 11 miles from Philipsburg.

Its first post office opened in 1912. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 130 to 138 (+6%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Maxville, 1912 to 1979

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 20th century
  2. 1912Post officeThe Maxville post office opens
  3. 1971On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  4. 1979Post officeThe Maxville post office closes
By decade

Maxville, decade by decade

Date unknown3 to date
Moonlight Mining CampDate?Moonlight Mining CampCopper State MineDate?Copper State MineRoyal Basin Mine & Mill SiteDate?Royal Basin Mine & Mill Site
On the map

Maxville on the map, 1971 to 1996

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Maxville. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Maxville on the 1971 USGS mapMaxville on the 1996 USGS map1971Maxville sheet · 1:24,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Maxville.

Then & now

Stand where they stood

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.

Moonlight Mining Camp
Retake this viewMoonlight Mining Camp

Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Maxville’s page.

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Places that used to be

Lost post offices and places now gone

Maxville had its own post office from 1912 to 1979.

Maxville
1912–1979
19101970today
Gone or out of use
BoulderlocaleFieldslocaleFlint SchoolschoolGird Creek MinemineHam Gulch MinemineLondonderry MinemineMaxville Post Officepost officeMoonlight MinemineNew Seattle MinemineSE Section 5 Minemine

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Questions about Maxville’s history

What year was Maxville founded?

The Maxville post office opened in 1912, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Sources

Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From the Library of Congress (3), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.