BlockTrenton, Kentucky
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Trenton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42286. It stands on Dry Branch. The Survey maps it on the Trenton quadrangle. 326 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 587 feet above sea level.
On record in Trenton
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 2 records
Population over time
2 figuresTrenton fell from 384 to 326 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 | 384 | |
| 2020 | 326 | -58 (-15%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 9 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.
- 1944 USGS Clarksville quadrangle1:50000
- 1951 USGS Hammacksville quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Clarksville quadrangle1:62500
- 1957 USGS Hammacksville quadrangle1:24000
- 1959 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Trenton quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Hopkinsville quadrangle1:100000
Storms near this place
29 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Trenton in 29 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 16 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 2 flash flood, 2 funnel cloud. The reports record 3 injuries. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Trenton | 3 hurt, $1,500,000 | A National Weather Service damage survey indicated a macroburst containing winds near 100 MPH caused extensive damage across southern Todd County. Most of the damage was in the Zion, Hermon, Allensville, and Trenton areas. Wind destroyed two trailers, three hog houses, and numerous barns and sheds. The injuries occurred to occupants of a trailer. Two people were trapped in the mobile home for a while, and one was transported to a hospital for minor injuries. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Trenton | $150,000 | Two houses in Trenton sustained major damage, including partial destruction of an exterior wall. Some other homes received minor damage. Most of the house damage was due to falling trees. Trees and power poles were down. |
| January 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Trenton | $75,000 | Widespread downed trees and power lines were reported countywide. On Highway 106 northeast of Sharon Grove, an old mobile home that was not tied down was flipped over. In the same area, four to five large oak trees were down, and a garage was damaged. The roofs on a house and garage were heavily damaged. Two buildings used for storage were destroyed. Several houses and barns in the area sustained minor damage. |
| October 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Trenton | $75,000 | Trees fell on a trailer in Trenton. Two homes, one business, a car, and a truck were damaged by falling trees in Guthrie. |
| January 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Trenton | $50,000 | A couple of farms were damaged in southern Todd County. At the first farm, siding from a farmhouse was strewn across a neighbor's property. At the second farm, a hog farm, three hog barns were destroyed. As a sidenote, a major tornado occurred at about this time in Clarksville, Tennessee, which is in the county just south of Todd. Several residents in southern Todd County found what were believed to be pieces of debris from Clarksville. In the Trenton area, a couple of landowners found vehicle title application forms and licensing receipts from the Montgomery County, Tennessee Courthouse. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Trenton | $35,000 | The roof was torn off a pole barn, minor shingle damage occurred to a home, and trees were down on a farm 3.5 miles north of Trenton. This damage was very close to the observed 95 mph wind gust from a mesonet site. The Todd County mesonet site located 5 miles southwest of Elkton measured a wind gust to 95 mph. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Trenton | $25,000 | Several trees were blown down, and a few barns were destroyed. |
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Trenton | $10,000 | Part of a barn was blown onto a road two miles northeast of Trenton. A wind gust to 63 mph was measured at the Kentucky mesonet site four miles northeast of Trenton. |
| May 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Trenton | $10,000 | A few trees about a foot in diameter were blown down. Power lines and numerous large limbs were down. Corn in several cornfields was blown over at a 45 degree angle. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Trenton | $6,000 | A power pole was snapped. |
| February 2019 | Flash Flood | Trenton | $5,000 | High water threatened a church and a couple of homes in Elkton. Water covered portions of State Roads 181, 848, and 475, as well as several county roads. Numerous roads were impassable due to high water. A mesonet site five miles southwest of Elkton measured a storm total of 3.01 inches. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Trenton | $5,000 | Several trees were down along Highway 104. A vehicle was stuck between trees. |
| October 2010 | Tornado (EF0) | Trenton | $5,000 | A damage survey revealed a brief EF-0 tornado along Highway 475. There was damage to recreational equipment blown from the back yard of a home. Pieces of tin were blown off a barn roof. Peak winds were estimated at 65 mph. |
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Trenton | - | A wind gust to 63 mph was measured at the Kentucky mesonet site. |
| February 2019 | Flood | Trenton | - | A couple of county roads were closed by high water in the western end of the county. On the north side of Elkton, Elk Fork Creek was out of its banks. Public safety officials alerted nearby residents of the danger. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Trenton | - | A wind gust to 58 mph was measured by a trained spotter. |
| February 2015 | Heavy Rain | Trenton | - | Water was ponding on a roadway in Trenton. A Cocorahs weather observer in Guthrie measured a storm-total precipitation amount of 3.34 inches. This included some melted sleet and ice. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Trenton | - | Route 104 between Trenton and Guthrie was closed due to a few trees across it. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Trenton | - | Trees were blown down. |
| July 2014 | Hail | Trenton | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Trenton | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Funnel Cloud | Trenton | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Trenton | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Funnel Cloud | Trenton | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Trenton | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Trenton | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Flash Flood | Trenton | - | no account filed |
| January 1997 | Hail | Trenton | - | no account filed |
| March 1997 | Hail | Trenton | - | 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.
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 Trenton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2319200 | 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 505487. 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.
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.