BlockVictory City, Texas
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Hooks census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75561. The Survey maps it on the Leary quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 18 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.
- 1909 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1953 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Leary quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
162 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 162 fires within 5 miles of Victory City between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,273 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 9 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 116 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 9 September 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | 6.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 7 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 7 September 1993 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 30 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 5 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LINDEN - 6223 |
| 5 September 2000 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LINDEN - 370 |
| 4 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LINDEN - 333 |
| 4 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LINDEN - 181 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Victory City in 2 storm reports in 2012: 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Victory City | $40,000 | A tree fell on a home in Leary, Texas. There were no reports of injuries. |
| April 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Victory City | - | Emergency Manager reported a measured wind gusts of 60 mph near Redlick, Texas. |
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.
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 Victory City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q113987461 | 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 1370639. 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.