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.
Population over time
2 figuresVictor 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 745 | |
| 2020 | 789 | +44 (+6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 15 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.
- 1901 USGS Hamilton quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1956 USGS Hamilton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Hamilton quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Hamilton quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Hamilton quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Victor quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Hamilton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1998 USGS Victor quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
48 since 1992Regional 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 ceremony | 14 |
| Debris and open burning | 13 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Natural | 10 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Bitterroot National Forest | MCCALLA RIDGE |
| 4 September 2014 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Bitterroot National Forest | LITTLE SMITH |
| 2 September 2001 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Southwestern Land Office | not named |
| 2 September 2001 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Southwestern Land Office | not named |
| 9 August 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Bitterroot National Forest | SWEATHOUSE |
| 4 August 2013 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Bitterroot National Forest | V FIRE |
| 3 August 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Bitterroot National Forest | PRINTZ |
| 21 August 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.5 acres | Bitterroot National Forest | MCCALLA |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 21 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Curlew | Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc | Producer | Pyrite | |
| Curlew | Silver, Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Curlew Mine | Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Gold | Past Producer | 1887, 1891 | |
| Mccalla Creek | Titanium, Iron, Zirconium | Unknown | ||
| Mccalla Creek Placer Area | Garnet, Titanium, Metal, Thorium, Zirconium, Iron | Occurrence | Garnet, Ilmenite, Magnetite, Monazite, Zircon | |
| Pleasant View | Silver, Copper | Past Producer | 1871 | |
| Smith Mine | Silver, Lead, Copper, Zinc | Prospect | Vein | |
| Smith Mine | Silver, Copper, Zinc, Lead, Gold | Occurrence | ||
| Strife Prospect | Tungsten | Occurrence | ||
| Victor Deposit | Titanium, Iron, Thorium, Zirconium | Prospect |
Storms near this place
12 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2008 | Flash Flood | Victor | $5,800 | Ravalli 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 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Victor | $1,000 | A 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 2020 | Flood | Victor | - | 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 2019 | Hail | Victor | - | Ping-pong-sized hail was reported in Victor as a thunderstorm moved off the Bitterroot divide and into the valley. |
| July 2013 | Hail | Victor | - | A supercell enhanced by the Bitterroot Mountains tracked east-northeast at approximately 43 mph producing 1 inch hail in Victor. |
| October 2012 | Heavy Rain | Victor | - | A RAWS station 4 miles west northwest of Victor measured 0.31 inch rainfall in 1 hour. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Victor | - | A trained spotter reported up to quarter size hail. |
| May 2007 | Hail | Victor | - | 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 2004 | Hail | Victor | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Heavy Rain | Victor | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Victor | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Victor | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Victor Crossing | 1.5 miles | 17 | |
| Bell Crossing | 2.3 miles | 17 | |
| Tucker | 3.2 miles | 17 | |
| Etna (historical) | 3.7 miles | 17 | |
| Bing | 3.9 miles | 17 | |
| Cobb | 5.5 miles | 16 | |
| Cinnabar Court | 5.6 miles | 17 | |
| Mountain Shadows Estates | 6.3 miles | 17 |
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 Victor | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q962196 | 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 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.







