Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Victor, CO

Victor is a statutory city in Teller County, Colorado, nicknamed the "City of Gold Mines."

Victor was founded in 1891 shortly after Winfield Scott Stratton discovered gold nearby, and the town was named after the Victor Mine.

Victor was incorporated on July 16, 1894.

Together with Cripple Creek, Victor anchored a mining district that produced about 21 million ounces of gold and became the second-largest gold mining district in United States history, and Victor's population peaked at about 18,000 around 1900.

The city's population was 379 at the 2020 United States census, down from 397 at the 2010 census.

At the 2010 census, Victor had 212 households.

In August 1899, a five-hour fire destroyed Victor's business district, so many of its historic buildings, including the Victor Hotel, date to the rebuilding of 1899.

The Portland Mine on Battle Mountain above Victor was called the "Queen of the District," and future heavyweight boxing champion Jack Dempsey once worked in it as a mucker.

The Western Federation of Miners union hall in Victor still stands with bullet holes from the Colorado Labor Wars era left intact.

Gold mining at the Cripple Creek and Victor Gold Mine on Battle Mountain, now owned by Newmont, continues today as a large open-pit operation that began in the 1990s, after all of the district's historic underground mines had closed by 1962.