The Victoria plate. Relief from Copernicus GLO-30; rivers and lakes from USGS NHD; watersheds from the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset; roads and city limits from Census TIGER 2024.
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8° on Nov. 12, 2016, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1972. Next is 14° in 1986.
Victoria’s center stands about 550 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 440 ft to 600 ft, a difference of 160 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Interlayered Mafic and Felsic Volcanic Rocks (metavolcanic), from the Neoproterozoic, 542 to 1,000 million years old.
The section below crosses 8 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 62×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Metavolcanic. Age: Neoproterozoic, 542 to 1,000 million years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Phyllite, slate. Age: Neoproterozoic, 542 to 1,000 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 359 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Proterozoic, 542 to 2,500 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Biotite-gneiss, schist. Age: Proterozoic, 542 to 2,500 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Biotite-gneiss. Age: Proterozoic, 542 to 2,500 million years old. About 0.9 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 2 smaller units along the line are not listed.
Heights from Copernicus GLO-90 (a surface model: it includes buildings and tree canopy); summits from USGS GNIS; rivers from USGS NHDPlus HR; rock from the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation.
A raindrop that lands in Victoria reaches Albemarle Sound and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Big Hounds Creek, the Nottoway and the Chowan: about 200 river miles.
100 miles of the trip are on the Nottoway.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Victoria; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Victoria has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 88° in July; winter nights fall to about 26° in January. About 47 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 3 inches of snow.
On November 14 Victoria normally reaches 61° and falls to 36°. The record high is 75°, in 1989; the record low 14°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 0.70 in, fell in 1997.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1972 at Fort Pickett, 16 miles east, 220 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
