Maxbass, ND

Maxbass is a city in Bottineau County, North Dakota, United States. The 2020 census counted 89 residents. Maxbass was founded in 1905. The city was named after Max Bass who figured prominently in the Great Northern Railway 's immigration and land settlement activities for many years before and after 1900. A newcomer can read Maxbass through the overlap of its older landmarks, surrounding geography, and current places. For a newcomer, Maxbass comes into focus through those concrete links among its past, landscape, and current routines. Bass was born in Austria in 1853 and served as land commissioner Dakota Territory from 1885 to 1901.