BlockBefore

Victor, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Dublin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76446. The Survey maps it on the Lingleville quadrangle.

Victor within Erath County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

145 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 145 fires within 5 miles of Victor between 2005 and 2020, burning about 6,020 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined48
Debris and open burning42
Equipment and vehicle use28
Power generation/transmission/distribution17
Natural5
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism2
Other causes1

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
22 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
20 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 2156 KEITH
2 September 2018Other causes15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBLACK
14 September 2014Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTANK DAM FIRE
12 September 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 358 GRASS FIRE
12 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
1 September 2020Naturalunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service34100 FM 8
8 August 2012Natural3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRASBERRY CR 364

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Erath County

Storms near this place

2 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Victor in 2 storm reports between 2020 and 2023: 1 flood, 1 hail. 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
April 2023HailVictor$50,000Baseball sized hail was reported 10 miles northeast of De Leon, which is in Comanche County.
September 2020FloodVictor-A public report indicated street flooding approximately 7 miles north-northeast of the city of DeLeon, TX.

Every storm recorded in Erath 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
Highland4.4 miles13
Lingleville7.1 miles13
Bunyan7.5 miles12
Dublin11.6 miles12
Harbin13.4 miles12
Cottonwood13.6 miles12
Huckabay14.5 miles13
Hannibal14.7 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379213. 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.