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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.

Victoria within Ellis County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Victoria 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,214
20201,129-85 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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.

Fires near this place

14 since 2015

Regional 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/undetermined8
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
25 September 2017Naturalunder an acreEllis County017-272
12 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service15-0154
4 August 2020Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
27 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service15-0132
19 July 2020Natural1.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
7 June 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service15-0091
22 June 2017Equipment and vehicle use25 acresRussell County19
13 June 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresKansas Forest Service15-0094

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ellis County

Storms near this place

60 of 79 shown

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1994HailVictoria$5,000no account filed
June 2013Thunderstorm WindVictoria$2,500Five power poles were blown down by the high wind.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindVictoria$2,000Power poles blown down.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindVictoria$750A power pole was blown down.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindVictoria-Report from Mping.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindVictoria-Mesonet site 2 NW Victoria.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindVictoria-Mesonet site 2 NW Victoria.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindVictoria-Mesonet site 2 NW Victoria.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindVictoria-Mesonet site 2 NW Victoria.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindVictoria-Mesonet site 2 NW Victoria.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindVictoria-One inch diameter tree limbs were broken by the high wind.
May 2021Heavy RainVictoria-Rainfall of 4.40 inches was observed.
March 2021FloodVictoria-There was low lying flooding near Big Creek.
September 2021Heavy RainVictoria-Rainfall of 2.05 inches was observed.
September 2021Heavy RainVictoria-Rainfall of 2.24 inches was observed.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindVictoria-Unspecified wind damage was reported (from MPing).
August 2019Heavy RainVictoria-Rainfall of 2.17 inches was observed.
August 2019Heavy RainVictoria-Rainfall of 2.89 inches was observed.
August 2018Flash FloodVictoria-Water was over several county roads.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindVictoria-Winds were estimated to be between 60 and 70 MPH.
July 2006Heavy RainVictoria-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 2005Heavy RainVictoria-This 3.40" of rain fell in 3 hours.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindVictoria-Three inch diameter tree limbs were blown down.
May 2004Heavy RainVictoria-Five and one half inches of rain fell in 3 hours.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindVictoria-Six inch diameter tree branches broken. Fences blown down.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindVictoria-A few small trees were uprooted.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindVictoria-Many "large" tree limbs were blown down.
June 2002HailVictoria-Hail covered the ground.
June 2001Flash FloodVictoria-Water over the road on old highway 40.
September 2001Flash FloodVictoria-Water was flowing over highway 40.
August 2001HailVictoria-Lasted 5 minutes.
September 2001Flash FloodVictoria-Water was reported flowing over highway 40.
March 2024HailVictoria-no account filed
May 2024HailVictoria-no account filed
May 2024HailVictoria-no account filed
June 2023HailVictoria-no account filed
June 2022HailVictoria-no account filed
June 2022HailVictoria-no account filed
May 2021HailVictoria-no account filed
May 2021HailVictoria-no account filed
August 2021Thunderstorm WindVictoria-no account filed
August 2020Thunderstorm WindVictoria-no account filed
August 2019Thunderstorm WindVictoria-no account filed
August 2019Thunderstorm WindVictoria-no account filed
May 2018Thunderstorm WindVictoria-no account filed
June 2018Thunderstorm WindVictoria-no account filed
May 2013HailVictoria-no account filed
May 2011Heavy RainVictoria-no account filed
July 2008HailVictoria-no account filed
July 2008HailVictoria-no account filed
July 2008HailVictoria-no account filed
July 2007HailVictoria-no account filed
May 2006HailVictoria-no account filed
July 2006HailVictoria-no account filed
July 2006HailVictoria-no account filed
July 2006HailVictoria-no account filed
July 2006HailVictoria-no account filed
April 2005HailVictoria-no account filed
April 2005HailVictoria-no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindVictoria-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ellis 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
Walker3.9 miles15
Toulon5.0 miles14
Catharine6.3 miles15
Munjor6.8 miles16
Emmeram7.3 miles15
Hays9.7 miles16
Pfeifer10.0 miles14
Schoenchen13.7 miles14

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 VictoriaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2188698The 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.