Victor, Utah

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Castle Dale-Huntington census division. It stands on Sand Wash. The Survey maps it on the Olsen Reservoir quadrangle. It stands 5,525 feet above sea level.

Victor within Emery County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

1886 USGS Price River quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1896 USGS Price River quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Price quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Price quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Price quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Olsen Reservoir quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

8 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Victor between 2000 and 2018, burning about 44 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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
Debris and open burning	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Natural	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
24 August 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	HAY LADY
6 July 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Moab Field Office	DITCH
17 July 2007	Natural	1.3 acres	Moab Field Office	DESERT LAKE
26 April 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.3 acres	Moab Field Office	800 E
24 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14 acres	Moab Field Office	OLSON RESERVOIR
10 April 2012	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	ELMO
24 March 2004	Debris and open burning	14 acres	Moab Field Office	MOUNDS
20 March 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	DESERT LAKE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Emery 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Elmo	5.3 miles	14
Cleveland	8.1 miles	13
Lawrence	13.5 miles	15
Cedar	13.8 miles	17
Huntington	14.2 miles	15
Mohrland	16.1 miles	20
Horse Canyon	19.3 miles	17
Castle Dale	20.7 miles	19

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 Victor	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7925637	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 1437712. 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.