Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Victoria, TX

Victoria was founded in 1824 by Mexican empresario Martín De León, who established the town of Guadalupe Victoria in De León's Colony and named it for Guadalupe Victoria, the first president of independent Mexico.

De León was the only Mexican empresario to found a colony in Texas, and Victoria remains one of the state's oldest continually inhabited settlements.

Victoria County was one of the original 23 counties created in March 1836 as Texas became a republic, and the town was incorporated under the Republic of Texas in 1839.

Victoria counted 65,534 residents in the 2020 Census, and it is the largest city in the seven-county South Texas region known as the Golden Crescent.

Victoria has about 25,550 households averaging 2.52 people each.

Victoria sits on the Guadalupe River about 30 miles inland from the Gulf of Mexico, roughly a two-hour drive from each of Corpus Christi, Houston, San Antonio and Austin.

The Victoria Advocate, founded as the Texian Advocate, is the second-oldest continuously running newspaper in Texas.

Victoria's 562-acre Riverside Park, along the Guadalupe River, is home to the Texas Zoo, which exhibits more than 200 species, and to more than 15 baseball fields.

Victoria College was established in 1925 as Victoria Junior College and first held classes inside Patti Welder High School, while Texas A&M University–Victoria began in 1971 as the University of Houston–Victoria Center.

Fossati's Delicatessen in downtown Victoria has been operating since 1882 and is regarded as the oldest delicatessen in Texas.