Victoria County Monument

Built in 1938. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.

From the record

One of 113 National Register listings published here for Victoria County · listed in 2018 · category: Object · built in 1938, by Page.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 object as contributing to the listing.
Address. 402 N DeLeon St., Memorial Square Park, Victoria, 77901
When was it listed? July 2018
Category. object
Also known as. Monuments and Buildings of the Texas Centennial MPS
Census division. Victoria
When was it built? 1938
Architect. Page
National Register reference number. 100002760 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

260 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 260 fires within 5 miles of Victoria County Monument between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,833 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	120
Debris and open burning	79
Equipment and vehicle use	24
Power generation/transmission/distribution	15
Smoking	9
Railroad operations and maintenance	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Arson/incendiarism	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 2019	Smoking	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	MARRIOTT GRASS FIRE
7 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	SUTTON MOTT
7 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	JUAN LINN 2
7 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	SW MOODY
30 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MOODY
29 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	DELORAS
29 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
26 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	ZAC LENTZ PKWY

Every fire recorded in Victoria County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Victoria County Monument: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Chipley Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Gravel, Sand
Fordyce Co Chipley Pit and Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Victoria Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Victoria County

Storms near this property

60 of 117 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Victoria, the town this property stands in, in 117 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 42 hail, 35 thunderstorm wind, 27 flash flood, 4 lightning. 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
July 2007	Flash Flood	Victoria	$1,000,000	Widespread flash flooding occurred across much of Victoria county during the early morning. Between 2 and 4 inches of rain fell across the southern half of the county and between 4 and 8 inches fell across the northern half of the county, with isolated amounts between 8 and 11 inches. Flooding was reported at Benbow Road and Garcitas Creek and at U.S. 77 at Garcitas Creek, numerous roads throughout the city of Victoria and several Farm to Market Roads in the northern half of the county. U.S. 77 was closed from the north side of the city of Victoria to the Lavaca/De Witt/Victoria county line due to flooding at the county line and at least one vehicle was completely submereged in a high water crossing along U.S. 77. In Nursery, widespread flash flooding of creeks resulted in 25 homes with water in them as well as cars reported underwater. Up to 10 homes in the Tropical Acres subdivision of Victoria had water in them due to flash flooding of Spring Creek. Flooding of 3 homes along Benbow Road near Garcitas Creek also occured. Several evacuations of families were needed.
May 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Victoria	$50,000	Several trees were reported blown down near Russel and Haynes roads in the City. After the first report of damage three other reported of trees damage were made from within the City. The Sheriff's Office reported power lines down on the Upper Mission Valley road.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Victoria	$25,000	Victoria County Sheriff's Office reported wind gusts estimated to around 60 mph in downtown Victoria. Trees and street signs were blown down.
August 2011	Lightning	Victoria	$20,000	Lightning caused two separate house fires in Victoria. The lightning blew out electrical panels and the fires damaged structures.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Victoria	$10,000	A power pole was blown down along with power lines down on East Virginia Street in Victoria.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Victoria	$10,000	Report received through social media of wind damage in downtown Victoria. A power pole was blown down and trees were damaged at the intersection of South Navarro Street and East Forrest Street.
March 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Victoria	$10,000	Large trees were blown down on the road near Nimitz Street and Rosebud Avenue in Victoria.
April 2012	Hail	Victoria	$10,000	Stripes Convenience store employee reported quarter sized hail at U. S. Highway 59 and North Laurent Street.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Victoria	$10,000	Thunderstorm winds caused roof damage, blew down several trees, and blew over a small travel camper.
August 2005	Lightning	Victoria	$10,000	Lightning struck a home on Ridgewood in Victoria. Fire was contained to attic, but did cause smoke damage to remainder of the home.
March 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Victoria	$5,000	A large tree was blow on to a mobile home on Leary Lane and damaged the home.
May 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Victoria	$5,000	A gust to 53 knots was measured at an electronic weather station in Woodhigh. Pea-sized hail accompanied the strong winds.
May 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Victoria	$5,000	Large tree limbs were knocked down and several trees were uprooted in Nursery. At 0120 CST the public reported wind damage to brick wall in a mobile home park in Victoria and several more trees uprooted in the Woodway area.
May 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Victoria	$5,000	Several trees were reported blown down near Russel and Haynes roads in the City. After the first report of damage three other reported of trees damage were made from within the City. The Sheriff's Office reported power lines down on the Upper Mission Valley road.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Victoria	$2,000	Tree was blown down on the road near Delmar Drive and Lone Tree Road in Victoria.
April 2009	Lightning	Victoria	$1,000	Lightning struck the Victoria 911 call center. A backup system was used until the main system came back online at 4 AM.
June 2025	Flash Flood	Victoria	-	Numerous streets flooded throughout the City of Victoria.
June 2025	Heavy Rain	Victoria	-	Total rainfall accumulation of 7.05 inches.
June 2025	Heavy Rain	Victoria	-	Total rainfall accumulation of 7.52 inches.
June 2025	Heavy Rain	Victoria	-	Rainfall total of 6.03 inches since midnight.
September 2025	Heavy Rain	Victoria	-	A total of 3.05 inches of rain measured between 1:00PM-4:40PM.
September 2025	Flash Flood	Victoria	-	Flash flooding occurred due to heavy rainfall.
September 2025	Flash Flood	Victoria	-	Flash flooding forced the closure of the Navarro Street underpass on Sunday, blocking traffic at the entrances on East North Street, Navarro Street and Goodwin Avenue. City officials said barricades were placed at all entry points to keep drivers out of high water. Crews are monitoring the area and will reopen the intersection once conditions improve. Police say the intersection could remain closed until Monday.
May 2024	Hail	Victoria	-	Videos sent from Victoria Emergency Management observed large hail.
May 2024	Hail	Victoria	-	Report from mPing.
December 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Victoria	-	A CWOP weather station in Victoria, TX measured a wind gust of 58 mph.
January 2023	Flash Flood	Victoria	-	Flash flooding occurred on numerous roadways around Victoria. This included the Navarro Street and Laurent Street Underpasses, the Five Points area, and Crestwood Drive and Ben Jordan Street.
July 2022	Flash Flood	Victoria	-	Broadcast meteorologist shared a public photo of street flooding in northwest Victoria.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Victoria	-	Winds downed pine tree 8 to 10 inches in diameter.
July 2010	Funnel Cloud	Victoria	-	A funnel cloud was observed near Port Lavaca Highway and Ben Jordan, in Victoria.
April 2010	Flash Flood	Victoria	-	Several inches of flowing water was reported at a low water crossing on Briggs Blvd. Minor flooding of roadways was reported elsewhere through the city.
September 2010	Flash Flood	Victoria	-	Public reported water over the roadways in portions of the city of Victoria near Mockingbird Lane.
September 2010	Funnel Cloud	Victoria	-	Law enforcement reported a funnel cloud near the Victoria Community Center.
June 2009	Hail	Victoria	-	Reported at the Victoria Advocate Newspaper.
June 2009	Hail	Victoria	-	Nicle size hail reported at Memorial High School.
June 2009	Hail	Victoria	-	Nickle size hail repoted by KAVU.
June 2009	Hail	Victoria	-	Nickle size hail reported by Fire Chief.
June 2009	Hail	Victoria	-	Pea to nickle size hail reported by public.
June 2009	Hail	Victoria	-	Quarter size hail reported along U.S. 59.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Victoria	-	Several 3 to 4 inch diameter tree limbs snapped.
June 2009	Hail	Victoria	-	Quarter sized hail reported at Port Lavaca Highway and Laurent Street.
March 2008	Hail	Victoria	-	Observed at Citizens Medical Center in Victoria.
March 2008	Flash Flood	Victoria	-	Flash flooding occurred in the city of Victoria when 2-4 inches of rain fell over a two hour period. Several low water crossings and underpasses were flooded, with cars reported stalled.
March 2007	Hail	Victoria	-	Nickle sized hail fell for 10 minutes on the southeast side of Victoria, near Business 59 and Loop 463.\|
July 2007	Flash Flood	Victoria	-	Between 1 and 3 inches of rainfall fell during the early morning across central Victoria county. City streets in Victoria flooded around Second Street and Liberty and Second Street and Williams. At least 10 homes had up to 6 inches of water in them from the flooding.\|
March 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Victoria	-	Straight line winds broke several large tree limbs across the north side of Victoria. A few fences were also blown over.
March 2007	Flash Flood	Victoria	-	Flooding was reported on many roads in the city of Victoria, including Navarro at Rio Grande, Ben Wilson St. near the University of Houston-Victoria and the Laurent Street underpass.\|
September 2007	Flash Flood	Victoria	-	The underpass at 900 North Loran Street in Victoria was completely flooded with several feet of water and impassable. Additional city streets were flooded, including Sam Houston, Lilac and Mockinbird with several vehicles stranded.\|
May 2006	Tornado (F0)	Victoria	-	Tornado observed by newspaper reporter between Guadalupe and Wood Hi, over open rural country.
May 2006	Hail	Victoria	-	Reported at Hanselman and U.S. 59.
May 2006	Flash Flood	Victoria	-	Lorent Street underpass at Highway 185 flooded with roughly two feet of water.
May 2006	Flash Flood	Victoria	-	Red River Road became impassible from Laurent to Nimitz and Ben Wilson from Red River to Airline. N. Laurent Street at the railroad overpass also became impassible with high water.
June 2006	Flash Flood	Victoria	-	Doppler radar estimated showers and thunderstorms produced an isolated 3 to 5 inches of rainfall in the southern portion of Victoria County. Old Refugio Road at U.S. 77 was reported barricaded due to high water over the road.
May 2005	Hail	Victoria	-	Quarter-sized hail on north side of city.
May 2005	Hail	Victoria	-	Minor hail damage reported to cars.
May 2005	Lightning	Victoria	-	Lightning struck a tank battery near Ragsdale Road in eastern Victoria County. The tank was destroyed and flames were sent 100 feet into the air. The time of 1900 CST was roughly estimated from media reports.
July 2005	Flash Flood	Victoria	-	Heavy rainfall resulted in low water crossings flooded on the southeast side of Victoria, including Lone Tree Road. NWS radar estimated between 1 and 3 inches of rainfall fell in about 1 hour.
October 2005	Hail	Victoria	-	Quarter size hail at U.S. 77 and Hwy 444 in far northern Victoria County.
June 2004	Flash Flood	Victoria	-	Flooding occurred on several city streets in the city of Victoria. 0.89 inches of rain was recorded at the Victoria Regional Airport, however radar estimated up to 2 inches may have fallen quickly in other areas in and around Victoria.
June 2004	Flash Flood	Victoria	-	Heavy rainfall resulted in flooding along Highway 185 just south of Victoria. Radar estimated 2 to 3 inches of rain fell across southern portions of Victoria county.

Every storm recorded in Victoria County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Schummacker Company Building	under 500 feet	1986
House at 401 East Stayton	under 500 feet	1986
Victoria Grist Windmill	under 500 feet	1976
Jordan-Koch House	under 500 feet	1986
Gervais House	0.1 miles	1990
Gramann House	0.1 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100002760 in Record Group 79.
Victoria County	All 113 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
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.