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Victoria, Minnesota

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Victoria City. It lies in ZIP code area 55386. The Survey maps it on the Victoria quadrangle. 10,546 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 988 feet above sea level.

Victoria within Carver 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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Victoria grew from 7,345 to 10,546 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
20107,345
202010,546+3,201 (+44%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Victoria in 2010, burning about 85 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Recreation and ceremony1

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
11 April 2010Recreation and ceremony85 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carver County

Storms near this place

29 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Victoria in 29 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 13 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 4 heavy rain, 1 funnel cloud. 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
May 1998Thunderstorm WindVictoria$5,000,000Windows broken. Trees blown down. Partial structural damage to building. Scattered areas damaged to wind driven hail. Estimated windspeed. Damage estimate for entire county.
August 2020HailVictoria$500,000Numerous sources from social media pictures, to trained spotters and official NWS observations, reported and measured very large hail for nearly 40 minutes from Victoria, eastward to the Carver, Hennepin County line. This includes some of the smaller communities between the two towns. ||The largest hailstone was measured at 2.75 inches in diameter and fell near Victoria. Two inch hail was measured at the NWS office. Due to the large hail size and almost a continuous line of storms redeveloping in the same areas, many roofs and cars were damaged.
August 2017LightningVictoria$200,000A home in Chanhassen, Minnesota was severely damaged after a fire broke out in the attic. It was caused by a lightning strike and happened on the 4000 block of Leslie Curve just before 12:30 a.m. LST. Fire officials said the heavy rain made it difficult to put the fire out. No one was hurt.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindVictoria$20,000A pontoon boat was flipped over and docks were damaged on Lake Minnewashta. In addition, several large trees were blown down.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindVictoria$500Several large tree branches were blown down around Victoria.
August 2025HailVictoria-Hail was continuous for roughly 3 minutes and the average size of the hail was 1 inch in diameter. The largest hail stone was 1.25 inches in diameter.
June 2025HailVictoria-A lot of hail up to ping pong size in Victoria.
June 2025Tornado (EF1)Victoria-The tornado touchdown likely occurred in the northern part of Carver Park Reserve before tracking across portions of Stone Lake and Lake Zumbra. Tree damage occurred along the shores of Lake Zumbra & residences on Zumbra Drive. The most extensive tree damage occurred at Rolling Acres Rd and Highway 7 where numerous trees were uprooted or were broken. The tornado terminated over Lake Minnewashta. The maximum estimated winds were 90 mph.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindVictoria-Tree down and power line down blocking one lane of Hwy 5 near the Arboretum east of Victoria.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindVictoria-Large tree was down in Victoria.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindVictoria-Multiple large tree branches were down.
August 2020Heavy RainVictoria-A measured rainfall report of 4.52 inches in Victoria.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindVictoria-A few large branches were blown down.
June 2014Heavy RainVictoria-A 24 hour rainfall total of 4.23 inches was reported.
May 2012Heavy RainVictoria-A local observer measured 3.18 inches in the last 24 hours.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindVictoria-Multiple tents were blown over at a campground in Carver.
August 2009Heavy RainVictoria-The local COOP Observer in Chaska recorded 6.20 inches of rainfall in a six hour period.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindVictoria-Dozens of trees felled in the Lake Schutz area. Some trees fell on houses and sheds.
May 2004HailVictoria-Dime sized hail fell at Deer Run Golf Course.
August 2025HailVictoria-no account filed
August 2025HailVictoria-no account filed
July 2019HailVictoria-no account filed
June 2016HailVictoria-no account filed
June 2016HailVictoria-no account filed
May 2012HailVictoria-no account filed
June 2008HailVictoria-no account filed
September 2005HailVictoria-no account filed
June 1996Funnel CloudVictoria-no account filed
June 1994HailVictoria-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carver 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
Hazeltine3.5 miles19
Augusta4.0 miles18
Jonathan5.2 miles19
Coney Island5.3 miles12
Chaska5.7 miles19
Dahlgren5.8 miles18
Waconia6.7 miles12
Carver Beach6.7 miles20

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 Q2038025The 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 653650. 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.