Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Victor, MT

Victor is a census-designated place (CDP) in Ravalli County, Montana, on the west side of the Bitterroot River in the Bitterroot Valley.

The community is named for Chief Victor (Xweɫxƛ̣̓cín, 'Many Horses'), who led the Bitterroot Salish from 1842 to 1870.

Chief Victor met Lewis and Clark at Ross' Hole in September 1805, when he was 15 years old, and he later refused to cede the Bitterroot Valley to the United States.

The settlement began as Sweat House, named for the cleansing sweathouses the Salish built along Sweat House Creek.

Frank Woody platted the townsite in 1881 and called it Garfield, after President James Garfield, but at a public meeting the name was changed to Victor to honor the Salish chief.

The repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act in 1893 hit Victor hard, forcing many local mines to close and sending the town's economy into a nosedive before the timber industry and agriculture revived it in the late 1890s.

Victor made an unsuccessful bid for the Ravalli County seat in 1898, losing out to Stevensville, which in turn lost to Hamilton.

The population of Victor was 789 at the 2020 census, compared with 745 at the 2010 census.

At the 2000 census, Victor had 859 residents living in 351 households.

The CDP is compact, covering only 0.46 square miles along U.S. Route 93, about 38 miles south of Missoula, at an elevation of about 3,413 feet.