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Trenton, Nebraska

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in Trenton precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 69044. It stands on Bush Creek. The Survey maps it on the Trenton quadrangle. 516 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,674 feet above sea level.

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Trenton within Hitchcock County

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Trenton fell from 560 to 516 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
2010560
2020516-44 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

18 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Trenton between 2008 and 2020, burning about 78 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning7
Equipment and vehicle use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
25 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
20 September 2010Debris and open burning20 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
11 August 2010Power generation/transmission/distribution7.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
21 July 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
2 July 2017Natural1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
2 July 2017Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
17 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
1 May 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Hitchcock County

Storms near this place

60 of 119 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Trenton in 119 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 78 hail, 35 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 3 flash flood. 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
August 2011HailTrenton$50,000Hail dented cars and broke siding on the house.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindTrenton$10,000A roof was ripped off a barn by thunderstorm wind gusts.
August 2015Flash FloodTrenton$5,000A culvert was washed out on North River Drive between Trenton and Culbertson.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindTrenton$5,000Metal outbuilding rolled and destroyed, landing on top of pickup truck.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindTrenton$2,500An enclosed metal building had a roughly 10 by 12 foot section of roof ripped off at the airport. In addition, an old farm windmill nearby was twisted and bent.
May 2025HailTrenton-The public reported dime to penny size hail in Trenton.
May 2024HailTrenton-Public report of hail up to half dollar sized.
May 2024HailTrenton-Trained spotter reported 1 inch diameter hail in Trenton.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindTrenton-Empty barrels blown east-southeast.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindTrenton-Storage container rolled, marks are in the ground. Container next to it did not roll. Pile of hurtles between the two containers not moved either.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindTrenton-Power pole is where parts of the roof (from the tornado) were blown into the power lines, causing pole to bend.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindTrenton-Mature pine tree uprooted. However pine trees of similar height nearby were fine.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindTrenton-South side of service station canopy blown off.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindTrenton-Two sections of fence blown over on north side of field.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindTrenton-Ambient Weather Station (AWN646bc9b60ff7752afb878582) reported a 59 MPH gust and a 64 MPH gust four minutes later.
June 2024HailTrenton-Pea to sporadic ping pong ball sized hail fell over the location. Spotter reported that the ground was becoming decently covered by the smaller hail stones.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindTrenton-Wind gust was reported via Ambient Weather Station Trenton.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindTrenton-Spotter estimated wind gusts of 50-60 mph.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindTrenton-Report of 1.5 inch hail, 70 mph winds, broken windows and downed power lines in Trenton, NE.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindTrenton-Report from ambient weather network east of Trenton, NE with a max gust of 81 mph.
June 2023HailTrenton-Ping-pong ball sized hail reported. This occurred with 70 MPH wind gusts.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindTrenton-Mesonet station reported a 61 mph gust at the location.
June 2022HailTrenton-Pea to penny sized hail reported over a duration of approximately ten minutes.
June 2021HailTrenton-Quarter to half dollar sized hail reported at location along which may have caused possible crop damage.
May 2020HailTrenton-Pea to dime size hail reported via social media.
May 2019HailTrenton-Fire department reported hail up to nickel size 1.5 miles north of the Kansas-Nebraska state line on Road 368.
August 2019Flash FloodTrenton-Water reportedly covered the roadway on several portions of NE Hwy 25 about 3 miles north of Trenton, NE.
August 2015HailTrenton-Heavy rainfall was also occurring with the quarter size hail.
April 2012HailTrenton-Observer reported hail covering the ground.
April 2012HailTrenton-Spotter reported the hail appeared elongated in shape.
April 2012Thunderstorm WindTrenton-Peak wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
April 2012Thunderstorm WindTrenton-Peak winds were estimated at 65 mph.
May 2009HailTrenton-Numerous hail reports received from the Trenton area in a 20 minute period. Reports were relayed by KIOD radio, the public, trained spotters and storm chasers. Hail sizes reported ranged from penny to half dollar. At 1635 CST, a spotter reported nickel sized hail covering the road in Trenton.
June 2008HailTrenton-Penny size hail was reported at Trenton Dam.
July 2008HailTrenton-Largest hail was penny sized but mostly pea size hail fell.
July 2008HailTrenton-Cooperative observer reported quarter size hail at Trenton Dam.
May 2007HailTrenton-Hail covered Highway 25.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindTrenton-Large tree limbs down.
May 2006HailTrenton-Hail covered the ground.
May 2005Tornado (F0)Trenton-Brief touchdown over open field near Highway 25 and Highway 36. No known damage.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindTrenton-Strong thunderstorm outflow produced roof damage, took the top of grain bins and blew over chicken houses. Estimated wind gusts of 80 mph.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindTrenton-Irrigation pivot blown over.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindTrenton-Four to six-inch diameter tree limbs down.
August 2002Flash FloodTrenton-Water running over Highway 25.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindTrenton-Several large branches broken.
October 1997Thunderstorm WindTrenton-Two trees uprooted. Up to 8 power poles down from Benkelman to Culbertson.
June 1994HailTrenton-A hail swath four to nine-miles wide occurred from northwest to southeast across the county. Approximately 20,000 acres of wheat and 6,000 acres of corn were damaged. The damage was estimated at $4 million. The hail broke windows on several farmsteads east of Stratton. At Swanson Lake the hail damaged mobile homes, pontoons, and boats.
September 1994Tornado (F0)Trenton-Brief tornado nearly blew trucker off Highway 25, 4 miles north of the Kansas state line.
May 2024HailTrenton-no account filed
May 2024HailTrenton-no account filed
July 2023HailTrenton-no account filed
August 2019HailTrenton-no account filed
August 2019HailTrenton-no account filed
August 2019HailTrenton-no account filed
August 2019HailTrenton-no account filed
August 2017HailTrenton-no account filed
August 2017HailTrenton-no account filed
May 2013HailTrenton-no account filed
April 2013Thunderstorm WindTrenton-no account filed
May 2011HailTrenton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hitchcock 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
Beverly7.6 miles7
Culbertson10.0 miles7
Cornell (historical)11.2 miles7
Stratton11.5 miles7
Palisade13.0 miles8

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 TrentonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2725770The 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 834155. 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.

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.