Trinity Center, California
29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Weaverville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96091. It stands on Swift Creek. The Survey maps it on the Trinity Center quadrangle. 198 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,510 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1890 to 1998The same ground, surveyed 108 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1890 against another survey:
On record in Trinity Center
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Bowerman Barnlisted 1981
Population over time
2 figuresTrinity Center fell from 267 to 198 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 267 | |
| 2020 | 198 | -69 (-26%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 29 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1890 USGS Red Bluff quadrangle1:250000
- 1894 USGS Red Bluff quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
- 1913 USGS Weaverville quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1950 USGS Schell Mtn quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1952 USGS Schell Mtn quadrangle1:62500
- 1952 USGS Schell Mtn. quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS Redding quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1967 USGS Schell Mtn quadrangle1:62500
- 1982 USGS Trinity Center quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Redding quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1998 USGS Trinity Center quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
100 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 100 fires within 5 miles of Trinity Center between 1992 and 2020, burning about 241 acres in total. 49 started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Natural | 49 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 19 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Shasta-Trinity National Forest | NORWEGIAN |
| 5 September 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Shasta-Trinity National Forest | HOBEL |
| 5 September 2019 | Natural | 1.4 acres | Shasta-Trinity National Forest | IRISH |
| 5 September 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Shasta-Trinity National Forest | RANCH |
| 5 September 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Shasta-Trinity National Forest | SWIFT |
| 5 September 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Shasta-Trinity National Forest | HATCHET |
| 5 September 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Shasta-Trinity National Forest | GRATTEN |
| 5 September 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Shasta-Trinity National Forest | PROFESSOR |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 28 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of Trinity Center: 12 unknowns, 9 past producers, 5 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Silver, Nickel. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| E. Fork of Stuart | PGE | Unknown | ||
| E. Fork of Stuart Fork River | Nickel | Occurrence | ||
| Copper Button | Copper | Occurrence | ||
| Copper Button | Copper | Unknown | ||
| Estabrook | Gold, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Poverty Slide | Gold, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| B. and Ellery | Gold | Unknown | ||
| Bloss and Mccleary | Gold | Past Producer | ||
| Buckeye Placer | Gold | Unknown | ||
| Center | Gold | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
4 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Trinity Center in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 2 hail, 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2025 | Hail | Trinity Center | - | Report of half-inch to one-inch sized hail near Trinity Lake. |
| April 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Trinity Center | - | no account filed |
| March 1998 | Flood | Trinity Center | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Trinity Center | - | no account filed |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stringtown (historical) | 4.0 miles | 33 | |
| Carrville | 5.6 miles | 33 | |
| Bragdon (historical) | 6.4 miles | 29 | |
| Coffee Creek | 7.3 miles | 33 | |
| Coffee | 9.2 miles | 35 | |
| Estrellita | 9.8 miles | 27 | |
| Ridgeville | 9.8 miles | 27 | |
| Minersville (historical) | 10.1 miles | 27 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Trinity Center | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6644975 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1665446. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.










