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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 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.
- 1890 USGS Stephenville quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1920 USGS Stephenville quadrangle1:125000
- 1954 USGS Abilene quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Abilene quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Lingleville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Stephenville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
145 since 2005Regional 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/undetermined | 48 |
| Debris and open burning | 42 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 28 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 17 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 20 September 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 2156 KEITH |
| 2 September 2018 | Other causes | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BLACK |
| 14 September 2014 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | TANK DAM FIRE |
| 12 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 358 GRASS FIRE |
| 12 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 1 September 2020 | Natural | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 34100 FM 8 |
| 8 August 2012 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | RASBERRY CR 364 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2020Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2023 | Hail | Victor | $50,000 | Baseball sized hail was reported 10 miles northeast of De Leon, which is in Comanche County. |
| September 2020 | Flood | Victor | - | A public report indicated street flooding approximately 7 miles north-northeast of the city of DeLeon, TX. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Highland | 4.4 miles | 13 | |
| Lingleville | 7.1 miles | 13 | |
| Bunyan | 7.5 miles | 12 | |
| Dublin | 11.6 miles | 12 | |
| Harbin | 13.4 miles | 12 | |
| Cottonwood | 13.6 miles | 12 | |
| Huckabay | 14.5 miles | 13 | |
| Hannibal | 14.7 miles | 13 |
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.





