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Victor, Montana

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Victor census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59875. It stands on Little Smith Creek. The Survey maps it on the Victor quadrangle. 789 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,415 feet above sea level.

Victor within Ravalli County

Population over time

2 figures

Victor grew from 745 to 789 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
2010745
2020789+44 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

48 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Victor between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,390 acres in total. 10 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 ceremony14
Debris and open burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Natural10
Smoking1

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
7 September 1995Naturalunder an acreBitterroot National ForestMCCALLA RIDGE
4 September 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBitterroot National ForestLITTLE SMITH
2 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreSouthwestern Land Officenot named
2 September 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouthwestern Land Officenot named
9 August 1999Naturalunder an acreBitterroot National ForestSWEATHOUSE
4 August 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBitterroot National ForestV FIRE
3 August 2019Naturalunder an acreBitterroot National ForestPRINTZ
21 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresBitterroot National ForestMCCALLA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ravalli County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Victor: 8 occurrences, 6 past producers, 4 prospects, 2 unknowns. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Silver, Pumice, Gold, Titanium. 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
CurlewGold, Silver, Copper, Lead, ZincProducerPyrite
CurlewSilver, Lead, ZincPast Producer
Curlew MineSilver, Lead, Zinc, Copper, GoldPast Producer1887, 1891
Mccalla CreekTitanium, Iron, ZirconiumUnknown
Mccalla Creek Placer AreaGarnet, Titanium, Metal, Thorium, Zirconium, IronOccurrenceGarnet, Ilmenite, Magnetite, Monazite, Zircon
Pleasant ViewSilver, CopperPast Producer1871
Smith MineSilver, Lead, Copper, ZincProspectVein
Smith MineSilver, Copper, Zinc, Lead, GoldOccurrence
Strife ProspectTungstenOccurrence
Victor DepositTitanium, Iron, Thorium, ZirconiumProspect

Every working recorded in Ravalli County

Storms near this place

12 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Victor in 12 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 6 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 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
November 2008Flash FloodVictor$5,800Ravalli County Road Department reported wash-outs on Middle Bear Creek Rd. (SW of Victor), Pleasant View Dr. (W of Victor), and Red Crow Rd. (SW of Victor).
August 2024Thunderstorm WindVictor$1,000A severe storm knocked over several trees along Highway 93 from south of Hamilton through Victor. The Soft Rock mesonet station in Corvallis recorded a gust of 72 mph. The power company reported about 2800 without power.
May 2020FloodVictor-Swollen small streams brought flooding to fields and low-lying areas in the Bitterroot Valley. A few homes were surrounded by water and reported water in basements. Local and county roads, along with a small section of Eastside Highway north of Stevensville, experienced water flowing across roadways. A Forest Service campground south of Darby was also closed because of the stream flooding. In addition, the Bitterroot River rose enough to flood ranch fields around Lolo.
July 2019HailVictor-Ping-pong-sized hail was reported in Victor as a thunderstorm moved off the Bitterroot divide and into the valley.
July 2013HailVictor-A supercell enhanced by the Bitterroot Mountains tracked east-northeast at approximately 43 mph producing 1 inch hail in Victor.
October 2012Heavy RainVictor-A RAWS station 4 miles west northwest of Victor measured 0.31 inch rainfall in 1 hour.
July 2008HailVictor-A trained spotter reported up to quarter size hail.
May 2007HailVictor-Law Enforcement reported .75 inch hail near Pinesdale. A weather spotter reported .88 inch hail 4 miles southeast of Victor from the same storm a few minutes later.
June 2004HailVictor-no account filed
July 2002Heavy RainVictor-no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindVictor-no account filed
June 1995HailVictor-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ravalli 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
Victor Crossing1.5 miles17
Bell Crossing2.3 miles17
Tucker3.2 miles17
Etna (historical)3.7 miles17
Bing3.9 miles17
Cobb5.5 miles16
Cinnabar Court5.6 miles17
Mountain Shadows Estates6.3 miles17

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 VictorAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q962196The 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 792701. 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.