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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.

Trinity Center within Trinity County

Then and now

1890 to 1998

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Trinity Center, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of Trinity Center, surveyed 1890

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

Population over time

2 figures

Trinity 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.

YearPeople Change
2010267
2020198-69 (-26%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 29 printed sheets

Matched 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.

Fires near this place

100 since 1992

Regional 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
Natural49
Recreation and ceremony19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Debris and open burning7
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1
Arson/incendiarism1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2019Naturalunder an acreShasta-Trinity National ForestNORWEGIAN
5 September 2019Naturalunder an acreShasta-Trinity National ForestHOBEL
5 September 2019Natural1.4 acresShasta-Trinity National ForestIRISH
5 September 2019Naturalunder an acreShasta-Trinity National ForestRANCH
5 September 2019Naturalunder an acreShasta-Trinity National ForestSWIFT
5 September 2019Naturalunder an acreShasta-Trinity National ForestHATCHET
5 September 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreShasta-Trinity National ForestGRATTEN
5 September 2003Naturalunder an acreShasta-Trinity National ForestPROFESSOR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Trinity County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 28 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
E. Fork of StuartPGEUnknown
E. Fork of Stuart Fork RiverNickelOccurrence
Copper ButtonCopperOccurrence
Copper ButtonCopperUnknown
EstabrookGold, SilverPast Producer
Poverty SlideGold, SilverPast Producer
B. and ElleryGoldUnknown
Bloss and McclearyGoldPast Producer
Buckeye PlacerGoldUnknown
CenterGoldPast Producer

Every working recorded in Trinity County

Storms near this place

4 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2025HailTrinity Center-Report of half-inch to one-inch sized hail near Trinity Lake.
April 2000Thunderstorm WindTrinity Center-no account filed
March 1998FloodTrinity Center-no account filed
June 1998HailTrinity Center-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Trinity County

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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Stringtown (historical)4.0 miles33
Carrville5.6 miles33
Bragdon (historical)6.4 miles29
Coffee Creek7.3 miles33
Coffee9.2 miles35
Estrellita9.8 miles27
Ridgeville9.8 miles27
Minersville (historical)10.1 miles27

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 CenterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6644975The 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.