Victor, South Dakota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Victor Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57260. The Survey maps it on the Victor quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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.
- 1917 USGS New Effington quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Victor quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Wheaton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
6 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Victor between 2012 and 2017, burning about 5 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 July 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 2017320 |
| 8 July 2017 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 2017321 |
| 4 July 2012 | Fireworks | under an acre | Sisseton Agency | MAGIC |
| 7 May 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 2017311 |
| 26 May 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 2017314 |
| 2 April 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | BRANDENBURGER |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Victor: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whiterock Colony Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
22 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Victor in 22 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 16 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Victor | - | Ninety mph winds or higher took the roof off of a barn. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Victor | - | Several trees were snapped by estimated eighty mph winds. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Victor | - | Ninety mph winds or higher uprooted several trees along with denting several grain bins. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Victor | - | Several trees were uprooted by estimated ninety mph winds. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Victor | - | Seventy mph winds downed a large tree. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Victor | - | A large tree uprooted by eighty mph winds fell onto a house. Also, some doors were ripped off a building. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Victor | - | no account filed |
| July 2025 | Hail | Victor | - | no account filed |
| September 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Victor | - | no account filed |
| September 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Victor | - | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Victor | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Victor | - | no account filed |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Victor | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Victor | - | no account filed |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Victor | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Victor | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Victor | - | no account filed |
| July 2014 | Hail | Victor | - | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Flash Flood | Victor | - | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Flood | Victor | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Victor | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Effington | 4.7 miles | 9 | |
| Rosholt | 5.4 miles | 14 | |
| Hammer | 10.0 miles | 6 | |
| White Rock Colony | 11.5 miles | 13 | |
| Diamond | 11.8 miles | 13 | |
| White Rock | 14.2 miles | 13 | |
| Claire City | 14.4 miles | 6 | |
| Sisseton | 18.2 miles | 6 |
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 Q23709440 | 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 1258750. 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.




