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Photograph of Holy Trinity Church
Photograph by Efraser77, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Holy Trinity Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1945.

From the record

“The Holy Trinity Church at Parker and Hector St. in Trinidad, California was built in 1873. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.”

Wikipedia article Holy Trinity Church (Trinidad, California), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 52 National Register listings published here for Humboldt County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Parker and Hector St., Trinidad, 95570
  • When was it listed? August 1980
  • Category. building
  • Census division. North Coastal
  • Architectural style. Gothic Revival
  • National Register reference number. 80004608 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Then and now

1945 to 1982

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 37 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Holy Trinity Church, surveyed 1982
Topographic sheet covering Holy Trinity Church, surveyed 1945

Fires near this property

168 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 168 fires within 5 miles of Holy Trinity Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 61 acres in total. None started naturally. 15 were 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined62
Debris and open burning27
Recreation and ceremony24
Equipment and vehicle use21
Arson/incendiarism15
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Smoking3
Fireworks1

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 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNorthern California DistrictWAGON
8 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNorthern California DistrictCOVE
7 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionBEACH
7 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresHumboldt-Del Norte UnitCLAM
7 September 1995Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreHumboldt-Del Norte UnitQUARRY
6 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionCOVE
5 September 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreHumboldt-Del Norte UnitOCEAN
4 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionOKEGA

Every fire recorded in Humboldt County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Holy Trinity Church: 3 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Platinum, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
A-21 QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Little RiverGold, PlatinumOccurrence
Little RiverGold, PlatinumProducerBeach Placer
Trinidad QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
WaltherGoldPast Producer

Every working recorded in Humboldt County

Storms near this property

2 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Trinidad, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 1 funnel cloud, 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
March 2024Thunderstorm WindTrinidad$1,000Thunderstorm Wind Damage reported by law enforcement 1 mile North of Trinidad, CA. Downed power line. Tree on fire. LAT. 41.07N, LONG. -124.14W.
March 1997Funnel CloudTrinidad-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Humboldt County

Maps showing this location

8 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

Listed places nearby

1 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Trinidad Head Light Station0.5 miles1991

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 80004608 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Humboldt CountyAll 52 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • 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.