Victoria, Kansas
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Herzog Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67671. The Survey maps it on the Victoria quadrangle. 1,129 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,926 feet above sea level.
On record in Victoria
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 3 records
George Grant Villalisted 1972
St. Fidelis Catholic Churchlisted 1971- Brungardt-Dreiling Farmsteadlisted 2016
Population over time
2 figuresVictoria fell from 1,214 to 1,129 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,214 | |
| 2020 | 1,129 | -85 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1896 USGS Hays quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Victoria quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Hays quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
14 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Victoria between 2015 and 2020, burning about 58 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 September 2017 | Natural | under an acre | Ellis County | 017-272 |
| 12 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 15-0154 |
| 4 August 2020 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 27 July 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 15-0132 |
| 19 July 2020 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 7 June 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 15-0091 |
| 22 June 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 25 acres | Russell County | 19 |
| 13 June 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 15-0094 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
60 of 79 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Victoria in 79 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 41 hail, 24 thunderstorm wind, 9 heavy rain, 4 flash flood. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1994 | Hail | Victoria | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Victoria | $2,500 | Five power poles were blown down by the high wind. |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Victoria | $2,000 | Power poles blown down. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Victoria | $750 | A power pole was blown down. |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Victoria | - | Report from Mping. |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Victoria | - | Mesonet site 2 NW Victoria. |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Victoria | - | Mesonet site 2 NW Victoria. |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Victoria | - | Mesonet site 2 NW Victoria. |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Victoria | - | Mesonet site 2 NW Victoria. |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Victoria | - | Mesonet site 2 NW Victoria. |
| May 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Victoria | - | One inch diameter tree limbs were broken by the high wind. |
| May 2021 | Heavy Rain | Victoria | - | Rainfall of 4.40 inches was observed. |
| March 2021 | Flood | Victoria | - | There was low lying flooding near Big Creek. |
| September 2021 | Heavy Rain | Victoria | - | Rainfall of 2.05 inches was observed. |
| September 2021 | Heavy Rain | Victoria | - | Rainfall of 2.24 inches was observed. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Victoria | - | Unspecified wind damage was reported (from MPing). |
| August 2019 | Heavy Rain | Victoria | - | Rainfall of 2.17 inches was observed. |
| August 2019 | Heavy Rain | Victoria | - | Rainfall of 2.89 inches was observed. |
| August 2018 | Flash Flood | Victoria | - | Water was over several county roads. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Victoria | - | Winds were estimated to be between 60 and 70 MPH. |
| July 2006 | Heavy Rain | Victoria | - | Four inches of rain fell with minor flooding problems were reported. There was widespread three to five inch reports received all across east central Ellis county, including the Walker area. |
| June 2005 | Heavy Rain | Victoria | - | This 3.40" of rain fell in 3 hours. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Victoria | - | Three inch diameter tree limbs were blown down. |
| May 2004 | Heavy Rain | Victoria | - | Five and one half inches of rain fell in 3 hours. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Victoria | - | Six inch diameter tree branches broken. Fences blown down. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Victoria | - | A few small trees were uprooted. |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Victoria | - | Many "large" tree limbs were blown down. |
| June 2002 | Hail | Victoria | - | Hail covered the ground. |
| June 2001 | Flash Flood | Victoria | - | Water over the road on old highway 40. |
| September 2001 | Flash Flood | Victoria | - | Water was flowing over highway 40. |
| August 2001 | Hail | Victoria | - | Lasted 5 minutes. |
| September 2001 | Flash Flood | Victoria | - | Water was reported flowing over highway 40. |
| March 2024 | Hail | Victoria | - | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Hail | Victoria | - | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Hail | Victoria | - | no account filed |
| June 2023 | Hail | Victoria | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Hail | Victoria | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Hail | Victoria | - | no account filed |
| May 2021 | Hail | Victoria | - | no account filed |
| May 2021 | Hail | Victoria | - | no account filed |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Victoria | - | no account filed |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Victoria | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Victoria | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Victoria | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Victoria | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Victoria | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Victoria | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Heavy Rain | Victoria | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Victoria | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Victoria | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Victoria | - | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Hail | Victoria | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Victoria | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Victoria | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Victoria | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Victoria | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Victoria | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Victoria | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Victoria | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Victoria | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Victoria | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2188698 | The 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 484729. 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.
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.





