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.
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
Wendelin Grimm Farmsteadlisted 1974
Laketown Moravian Brethren's Churchlisted 1980
Population over time
2 figuresVictoria 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 7,345 | |
| 2020 | 10,546 | +3,201 (+44%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 18 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.
- 1905 USGS Minnetonka quadrangle1:62500
- 1907 USGS Minnetonka quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Lake Minnetonka quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Victoria quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1959 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2010Regional 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 ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 April 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | 85 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
29 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Victoria | $5,000,000 | Windows broken. Trees blown down. Partial structural damage to building. Scattered areas damaged to wind driven hail. Estimated windspeed. Damage estimate for entire county. |
| August 2020 | Hail | Victoria | $500,000 | Numerous 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 2017 | Lightning | Victoria | $200,000 | A 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 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Victoria | $20,000 | A pontoon boat was flipped over and docks were damaged on Lake Minnewashta. In addition, several large trees were blown down. |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Victoria | $500 | Several large tree branches were blown down around Victoria. |
| August 2025 | Hail | Victoria | - | 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 2025 | Hail | Victoria | - | A lot of hail up to ping pong size in Victoria. |
| June 2025 | Tornado (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 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Victoria | - | Tree down and power line down blocking one lane of Hwy 5 near the Arboretum east of Victoria. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Victoria | - | Large tree was down in Victoria. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Victoria | - | Multiple large tree branches were down. |
| August 2020 | Heavy Rain | Victoria | - | A measured rainfall report of 4.52 inches in Victoria. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Victoria | - | A few large branches were blown down. |
| June 2014 | Heavy Rain | Victoria | - | A 24 hour rainfall total of 4.23 inches was reported. |
| May 2012 | Heavy Rain | Victoria | - | A local observer measured 3.18 inches in the last 24 hours. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Victoria | - | Multiple tents were blown over at a campground in Carver. |
| August 2009 | Heavy Rain | Victoria | - | The local COOP Observer in Chaska recorded 6.20 inches of rainfall in a six hour period. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Victoria | - | Dozens of trees felled in the Lake Schutz area. Some trees fell on houses and sheds. |
| May 2004 | Hail | Victoria | - | Dime sized hail fell at Deer Run Golf Course. |
| August 2025 | Hail | Victoria | - | no account filed |
| August 2025 | Hail | Victoria | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Hail | Victoria | - | no account filed |
| June 2016 | Hail | Victoria | - | no account filed |
| June 2016 | Hail | Victoria | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Victoria | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Victoria | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Victoria | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Funnel Cloud | Victoria | - | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Hail | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hazeltine | 3.5 miles | 19 | |
| Augusta | 4.0 miles | 18 | |
| Jonathan | 5.2 miles | 19 | |
| Coney Island | 5.3 miles | 12 | |
| Chaska | 5.7 miles | 19 | |
| Dahlgren | 5.8 miles | 18 | |
| Waconia | 6.7 miles | 12 | |
| Carver Beach | 6.7 miles | 20 |
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 Q2038025 | 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 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.








