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Trimble, Missouri

37 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Hardin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64492. The Survey maps it on the Smithville quadrangle. 573 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 935 feet above sea level.

Trimble within Clinton County

Population over time

2 figures

Trimble fell from 646 to 573 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
2010646
2020573-73 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 37 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Hardin township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From The History of Clinton County, Missouri : Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, Etc., Biographical Sketches of Its Citizens, Clinton County in the Late War, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of Missouri, Map of Clinton County, Etc., Etc, published 1881 - Hardin Township

Daniel Reed

section 15, post office Edgerton, was born May 18, 1849. ^"*^^ ^^ native of this count}-, where he has been raised. John, the father of the subject of this sketch, was an old pioneer of this district, and a man closel)' connected with its interests from an early day. He was shot and killed b\' Federals in 1862.

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In the county-history sources

4,629 words on this township

The History of Clinton County, Missouri : Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, Etc., Biographical Sketches of Its Citizens, Clinton County in the Late War, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of Missouri, Map of Clinton County, Etc., Etc, published 1881 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Hardin Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Hardin Township - 4,629 words.

Fires near this place

5 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Trimble in 2006, burning about 6 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony1

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 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
4 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
14 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
14 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
22 February 2006Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clinton County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Trimble: 11 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Harvant QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clinton County

Storms near this place

27 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Trimble in 27 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 17 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
October 2024HailTrimble-Spotter reported quarter sized hail between 620-624 pm.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindTrimble-Three inch tree limbs broken; Power poles broken.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindTrimble-Downed trees and wires near Maple Street.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindTrimble-Three inch diameter tree limbs broken; Power poles broken and minor damage to roof coverings. Tree uprooted near Howard Road.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindTrimble-Downed wires and power outages near 223rd Street.
March 2017Tornado (EF2)Trimble-This tornado is a continuation of the tornado that moved out of Clay County after impacting Smithville and Smithville Lake on the night of March 6. The tornado reached its strongest rating and its widest size as it crossed out of Clay County into Clinton County while it crossed Smithville Lake. Like in Clay County several residences were impacted in Clinton County by this large tornado that reached 1000 yards wide at its largest point. The worst of the damage occurred just east of Smithville lake where numerous structures were completely destroyed, but like on the west side of the lake the worst of the damage seemed to occur where garage doors became a point of entry for 100+ mph winds and lifted the entire structure off of its foundation. The tornado continued across the rural portions of Clinton County, remaining at least EF-2 until it approached Lathrop, where it became smaller and didn't create as much damage. A few structures on the south end of Lathrop were damaged. The last damage point appeared to be just west of Interstate 35, where a few metal outbuildings had some metal peeled off, but no more damage was located east of I-35. The tornado dissipated between Lathrop and Interstate 35.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindTrimble-A 60 mph wind gust was estimated by a member of the public and relayed via amateur radio.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindTrimble-A storm chaser reported 70 mph winds near an ongoing tornado near Trimble, Missouri.
April 2014HailTrimble-The hail was driven by 70 mph estimated winds.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindTrimble-Spotter estimated 70 mph winds.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindTrimble-Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph.
October 2000Thunderstorm WindTrimble-Law enforcement officials reported trees down along Highway C.
March 2017HailTrimble-no account filed
April 2016HailTrimble-no account filed
April 2016HailTrimble-no account filed
April 2014HailTrimble-no account filed
May 2009HailTrimble-no account filed
April 2006HailTrimble-no account filed
March 2006HailTrimble-no account filed
June 2005HailTrimble-no account filed
May 2004HailTrimble-no account filed
May 2004HailTrimble-no account filed
May 2004HailTrimble-no account filed
May 2004HailTrimble-no account filed
May 2003HailTrimble-no account filed
May 2001HailTrimble-no account filed
April 1994HailTrimble-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clinton 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
Mecca2.4 miles37
Grayson4.3 miles19
Westbridge5.8 miles19
Lilly6.4 miles23
Scearces8.2 miles19
Plattsburg9.0 miles16
Gower9.8 miles19
Wexford10.3 miles16

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 TrimbleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q960073The 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 730235. 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.