Victoria, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Lapile Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71747. The Survey maps it on the Strong quadrangle.

Victoria within Union County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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.

1933 USGS Strong quadrangle1:62500
1937 USGS Strong quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1939 USGS Strong quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Strong quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1989 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

65 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Victoria between 1997 and 2019, burning about 751 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 12 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Debris and open burning	21
Arson/incendiarism	12
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Natural	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Smoking	1

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
20 September 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	UNI15447500
20 September 2006	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2000	Natural	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2000	Natural	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Union 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Union	0.2 miles	16
Strong	2.3 miles	16
Gardner	3.4 miles	16
Lapile	3.5 miles	16
Aurelle	4.4 miles	16
Old Lapile	4.5 miles	18
Bolding	5.4 miles	18
Sandy Bend	5.6 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 58802. 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.