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Victor, Indiana

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1999. It stands in Indian Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47403. It stands on May Creek. The Survey maps it on the Clear Creek quadrangle. It stands 653 feet above sea level.

Victor within Monroe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 27 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Indian Creek township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From 1884 History of Monroe County Indiana, published 1884 - Indian Creek Township

Army Correspondence

May, the members of Capt. Kelley's company, Fourteenth Regiment, sent home to their friends $2.000. As this time also the body of Capt. Kelley was brought home and buried. He had been mortally wounded at the hotly contested battle of Winchester, and after lingering several weeks had died at Cincinnati, where he had been brought by his loving and faithful wife for medical treatment.

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In the county-history sources

40,478 words on this township

1884 History of Monroe County Indiana, published 1884 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Indian Creek Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Indian Creek Township - 40,478 words.

Fires near this place

40 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Victor between 2003 and 2008, burning about 19 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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
Debris and open burning16
Recreation and ceremony13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking1
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Other causes1

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
9 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
3 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
23 September 2005Naturalunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
20 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
15 September 2006Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
4 August 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
27 August 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
14 August 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Victor: 12 past producers, 9 occurrences, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, Dimension, Iron, Lead, Zinc, Sulfur. 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
Cleveland Stone Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
Sphalerite Occurrence Z70Lead, Zinc, SulfurOccurrenceSphalerite
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Victor in 1 storm report in 2014: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
September 2014Thunderstorm WindVictor$20,000Trees were downed on Old State Route 37, five miles south of Bloomington, due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. Additional trees were downed to the southwest of Bloomington.

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Kirksville2.0 miles27
Harrodsburg3.8 miles27
Sanders3.8 miles27
Clear Creek4.0 miles27
Smithville4.0 miles27
Garden Acres4.4 miles27
Buenavista4.4 miles22
Stanford5.0 miles22

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 VictorAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7925634The 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 445274. 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.