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Victory Center, Wisconsin

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Germantown Village. It lies in ZIP code area 53022. The Survey maps it on the Menomonee Falls quadrangle. It stands 840 feet above sea level.

Victory Center within Washington County

On record in Victory Center

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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

16 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Victory Center between 2018 and 2020, burning about 13 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/undetermined10
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 August 2020Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1768522
3 August 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1801183
22 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1772992
21 August 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1772607
19 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1801269
14 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2002444
5 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2000661
29 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1800799

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Victory Center: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, Dimension, 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
H.F. Prahl Corp. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lannon QuarryLimestone, DimensionProducer
United Stone QuarryLimestone, DimensionProducer

Every working recorded in Washington 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
Germantown2.1 miles20
Willow Creek4.0 miles20
Rockfield4.2 miles15
Dheinsville4.4 miles15
Goldenthal4.7 miles20
Meeker4.9 miles20
Kirchhayn6.1 miles15
Richfield6.8 miles15

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 CenterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7927476The 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 1576084. 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.