Victor

Victor, Colorado is a great place to see, if nothing else. It's like you're taking a step back in time to years gone by. When mining was popular in the area, there were many businesses here such as saloons waiting to take money from the miners and those who had found gold. The main street in town has some historic buildings and also a museum. As you look around at the nice views of the nearby mountains, you can see many homes dotted along the hills.

There are currently 398 people who call Victor home and the largest industry here is educational services. The cost of living here is pretty good as the median household income is lower than the state average, but the home prices are much lower. Victor is close enough to Colorado Springs for residents to travel there for work, or Cripple Creek is close as well with jobs in the casinos and accommodations industries.

There are some old mining buildings around Victor and although they are neat to see, some of them look as if they should be torn down for safety reasons. Overall, this would be a pretty place to live, but with no amenities and few jobs there isn't much to keep people here.

Victor is a small town off about 500 people just south of Cripple Creek, Colorado. Victor is known as the "City of Gold Mines" as it boomed in the 1890's. Nearby Cripple Creek had its heyday and its boom spilled over into the Victor, Cripple Creek was once known as the most productive gold mining district in the United States. There is so much interesting pioneer and gold boom time history in the area. Some of Victor's historic buildings still have the bullet holes to prove it.

Today there is a huge open pit gold mine called The Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Company created in 1976. If you look on google maps you can see the big white open mining area between Cripple Creek and Victor. While mining still persists in the area and gives it character there is also an annual arts festival now and the town is taking advantage of its beautiful scenery, history and the tourists that come to check it out.

The average median household income in Victor is about $30,000. There is a downtown and the neighborhood is small but pretty. People also live on larger properties in the surrounding mountain roads. I think it would be a bit strange to live in Victor, there are lots of other mountain towns that are just as pretty, still close to the Springs and not so touristy and most importantly there are other communities that have not pillaged the land so much in search of bling bling.