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Website. City of Victoria. Victoria is a city and the county seat of Victoria County, Texas, United States. The population was 65,534 as of the 2020 census. [4] The three counties of the Victoria Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 111,163 as of the 2000 census. Its elevation is 95 ft (29 m).
The Great Raid of 1840 was the largest raid Native Americans ever mounted on white cities in what is now the United States. [3] It followed the Council House Fight, in which Republic of Texas officials attempted to capture and take prisoner 33 Comanche chiefs and their wives, who had earlier promised to deliver 13 white captives they had kidnapped. [4]
www.victoriacountytx.org. Victoria County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 91,319. [1] Its county seat is also named Victoria. [2] Victoria County is included in the Victoria, TX Metropolitan Statistical Area, and comprises the entirety of the Victoria, TX media market.
Location of Victoria County in Texas. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Victoria County, Texas. This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Victoria County, Texas. There are one district and 114 individual properties listed on the ...
101 W. Goodwin Ave., Suite 1200. Victoria, Texas 77901. United States. Circulation. 12,804 (as of 2023) [1] Website. www.VictoriaAdvocate.com. The Victoria Advocate is a daily newspaper independently published in Victoria, Texas. It is the second-oldest paper in Texas and the oldest west of the Colorado River, [2] dating back to May 8, 1846 ...
Victoria, Texas metropolitan area. The Victoria Metropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of three counties in the Coastal Bend region of Texas, anchored by the city of Victoria. The area is sometimes referred to as the Golden Crescent Region, though this term is sometimes used to refer ...
Added to NRHP. December 9, 1986. Designated RTHL. 1980. The O'Connor–Proctor Building on N. Main in Victoria, Texas was built in 1895 at cost of $7,721. It was designed by architect Paul Helwig and its exterior is "St. Louis red brick trimmed with Kerrville white limestone". [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
Kenneth L. Armbrister (born 19 June 1946) [1] is an American politician who was a Democratic member of the Texas Senate representing the 18th District from 1987 to 2007. Armbrister was a Victoria, Texas police captain, and the vice president of the Victoria School Board when first elected as a Democrat to the Texas House of Representatives in 1983.