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Victor, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Houston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77044. It stands on Williams Gully. The Survey maps it on the Harmaston quadrangle.

Victor within Harris County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 16 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

43 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Victor between 1992 and 2020, burning about 781 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined15
Debris and open burning11
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Arson/incendiarism6
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1
Fireworks1

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
9 September 2011Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 873
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined22 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 864
30 September 1992Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined108 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 38
9 August 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2011Misuse of fire by a minor10 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 685
6 August 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 August 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Victor: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cordell Pit & PlantClayProducer
Specialty Sand PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Harris County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Victor in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2023: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
September 2023Thunderstorm WindVictor-Trees were downed at the San Jacinto College Generation Park campus.
March 2009HailVictor-Penny-sized hail was reported in the Summerwood subdivision on the southwest side of Lake Houston.

Every storm recorded in Harris 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
Summerwood1.7 miles16
Kings Lake Forest2.0 miles16
Forest Acres2.3 miles16
Greensbrook2.4 miles16
Atascocita Acres2.9 miles16
Atascocita Forest3.0 miles16
Audubon Park3.3 miles17
Dyersdale3.5 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380722. 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.