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Victoria, Missouri

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Central Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63020. It stands on Cotter Creek. The Survey maps it on the De Soto quadrangle.

Victoria within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 20 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

102 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 102 fires within 5 miles of Victoria between 1997 and 2019, burning about 172 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined61
Debris and open burning20
Recreation and ceremony6
Smoking5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Arson/incendiarism5

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 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178414-05008-09092018-1315
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
7 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
3 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
3 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
24 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
12 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation128390-05007-09122015-1411
10 September 2005Smokingunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Victoria: 16 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Lead, Zinc, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Prentiss MineIronPast Producer
Unknown - CopperCopperPast Producer
Sand & Gravel Plant 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sand & Gravel Plant 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unknown - Lead & ZincLead, ZincPast Producer
Unknown - Lead + ZincLead, ZincPast Producer
Herculaneum MinesLeadPast Producer
Hunt's MinesLeadPast Producer
Unknown - LeadLeadPast Producer
Unknown - LeadLeadPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

3 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Victoria in 3 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 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
May 2020Flash FloodVictoria-Up to four inches of rain fell in a short amount of time over portions of southern Jefferson County. Joachim Creek rose above it's banks in and around Victoria, flooding several secondary roads as well as Highway P.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindVictoria-Golf ball-size hail was reported at many locations with a 60 mph wind gust reported at Victoria by the county sheriff's department.
May 2011HailVictoria-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Hematite2.9 miles17
De Soto3.1 miles20
Briarwood Estates3.5 miles20
Hillsboro4.2 miles20
Donnell4.3 miles17
Olympian Village4.6 miles17
Mapaville5.4 miles17
Bailey6.0 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 736359. 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.