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History · Victoria

Victoria’s post office opened in 1933, and 1 of its places is on the National Register

Most of Victoria was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1981. Its Register listing is the Jonesboro, Lake City & Eastern Railroad Steam Locomotive #34 and Associated Rolling Stock. Below: maps from 1941 on and the census since 1970.

1933first post office
1on the National Register
0.0%homes built before 1940
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Quick answers

How Victoria began

When was Victoria founded?

1933

The Victoria post office opened in 1933, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 198 in 19702020 census: 2093 years
Founding year: the first Victoria post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Victoria’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Victoria are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Victoria’s history is told.

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The story

How Victoria came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Victoria.

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Robert E. Lee Wilson, a prominent late-19th century planter, established several small towns in Arkansas. These include Armorel, Marie, and Wilson - all of which are also in Mississippi County - as well as Victoria itself, which was named after his sister. Wilson's daughter, also named Victoria, married Frank Wesson (an heir of the firearms manufacturer), and the company they established, now known as "Wesson Farms", still operates much of the land around Victoria. The town incorporated in 1966 and reported a population of nearly 200 four years later, but it has gradually declined since.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Victoria, 1933 to 1973

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 20th century
  2. 1933Post officeThe Victoria post office opens
  3. 1941On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  4. 1973Post officeThe Victoria post office closes
By decade

Victoria, decade by decade

Today4 recent
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On the map

Victoria on the map, 1941 to 1983

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Victoria. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Victoria on the 1941 USGS mapVictoria on the 1956 USGS mapVictoria on the 1983 USGS map1941Manila sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Victoria.

On the National Register

1 historic place in Victoria

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
2022
Jonesboro, Lake City & Eastern Railroad Steam L…
Jonesboro, Lake City & Eastern Railroad Steam Locomotive #34 and Associated Rolling Stock
Structures
Jonesboro, Lake City & Eastern Railroad Steam Locomotive #34 and Associated Rolling StockStructure

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

People over time

Victoria, census by census

0100200198020002020Peak: 198

Between 20 and 198 people in every census since 1970.

6 censuses, 1970–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Victoria’s Wikipedia page.

Places that used to be

Lost post offices and places now gone

Victoria had its own post office from 1933 to 1973.

Victoria
1933–1973
19301980today
Gone or out of use
Wesson Landing Stripairport

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Questions about Victoria’s history

What year was Victoria founded?

The Victoria post office opened in 1933, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Victoria?

One place: the Jonesboro, Lake City & Eastern Railroad Steam Locomotive #34 and Associated Rolling Stock (listed 2022).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Sources

Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (4), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.