Do you know of Victory ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Victory. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Victory.

We found mention of Victory as a community (see Mentions and References below), but haven't been able to determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Mercer County, Pennsylvania.

This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.

Communities Also Named Victory ...

We found fourteen communities that share the name Victory.

Within Pennsylvania, the name Victory is unique.

Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of another fourteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these fourteen communities, thirteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Georgia
  - Carroll County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Victory [Carroll County].
- Kentucky
  - Laurel County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Victory [Laurel County].
- Michigan
  - Mason County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Victory [Mason County].
- New York
  - Cayuga County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Victory [Cayuga County].
  - Saratoga County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Victory [Saratoga County].
- North Carolina
  - Cumberland County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Victory [Cumberland County].
  - Gaston County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Victory [Gaston County].
- Nova Scotia
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Victory.
- Oklahoma
  - Jackson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Victory [Jackson County].
- Tennessee
  - Campbell County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Victory [Campbell County].
  - Wayne County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Victory [Wayne County].
- Texas
  - Marion County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Victory [Marion County].
- Vermont
  - Essex County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Vermont community of Victory [Essex County].
- Wisconsin
  - Vernon County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Victory [Vernon County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Victory ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Victory:

North American Railroad Atlas - Northeast
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by RailfanDepot, 2020
(Available from Amazon.com)

The FIPS database contains an entry for Victory.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 42/80160 (Place Name: Victory)

County: Mercer (FIPS State/County: 42/085)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Victory) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

More Orphans in Mercer County ...

Can you help?

As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Mercer County.

Footnotes ...

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If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer.

Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.

Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.

Also keep in mind that Victory could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.