Trimble, Ohio
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Trimble Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45782. It stands on Congress Run. The Survey maps it on the Jacksonville quadrangle. 329 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 663 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresTrimble fell from 390 to 329 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. 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 | 390 | |
| 2020 | 329 | -61 (-16%) |
Then and now
1903 to 2002The same ground, surveyed 99 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1903 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
19 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.
- 1903 USGS Athens quadrangle1:62500
- 1905 USGS Athens quadrangle1:62500
- 1905 USGS Athens quadrangle1:62500
- 1905 USGS Athens quadrangle1:62500
- 1905 USGS Athens quadrangle1:62500
- 1905 USGS Athens quadrangle1:62500
- 1905 USGS Athens quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Wellston quadrangle1:100000
- 2002 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:24000
Fires nearby
47 since 2006The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Trimble between 2006 and 2020, burning about 52 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 24 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 August 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | LITTLE |
| 12 August 2006 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Wayne National Forest | BOC FIRE |
| 7 July 2020 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | 329 BRAVO |
| 3 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | BIG BAILEY |
| 17 June 2006 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Wayne National Forest | BURLEY FIRE |
| 6 May 2019 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | OLD 78 FIRE |
| 9 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 7809 |
| 6 April 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15648 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 160 shownMuseums hold 160 specimens collected within 10 miles of Trimble between 1898 and 1975: 91 Animalia, 47 Plantae, 20 Fungi, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, A. H. Blickle, A.D. Selby and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.
| Image | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Sporobolus vaginiflorus (Torr. ex A.Gray) Alph.Wood | 1898 | Selby, A.D. | Palos |
![]() | Dichanthelium acuminatum (Sw.) Gould & C.A.Clark | 1899 | Selby, A.D. | Palos |
![]() | Scirpus polyphyllus Vahl | 1899 | Selby, A.D. | Palos |
![]() | Colletotrichum cereale Manns | 1908 | A. D. Selby | Sharpsburg |
![]() | Bombus impatiens Cresson, 1863 | 1916 | not recorded | |
![]() | Uromyces appendiculatus (Pers.) Unger | 1919 | L. Bonar | Glouster |
![]() | Notropis umbratilis (Girard, 1856) | 1927 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | East Branch Sunday Creek, within Homer township, near Glouster, Homer township |
![]() | Campostoma anomalum anomalum | 1929 | MB Trautman & asst | Federal Creek, trib of the Hocking River, extreme E Ames Twp |
![]() | Carpiodes cyprinus hinei Trautman, 1956 | 1929 | MB Trautman & asst | Federal Creek, trib of the Hocking River, extreme E Ames Twp |
![]() | Desmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1929 | Hicks, L. E. (Lawrence E.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | near Buchtel, Athens Co., Ohio |
![]() | Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820 | 1929 | MB Trautman & asst | Federal Creek, trib of the Hocking River, extreme E Ames Twp |
| Lepisosteus osseus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1929 | MB Trautman & asst | Federal Creek, trib. of Hocking River; extreme E Ames Twp. |
All 160 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms nearby
6 since 2002The National Weather Service names Trimble in 6 storm reports between 2002 and 2026: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2002 | Hail | Trimble | $10,000 | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Trimble | $5,000 | The roof of a porch was blown off and several trees fell down near the Post Office. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Trimble | $2,000 | Several trees were blown down in Jacksonville. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Trimble | $500 | Near the community of Trimble, a tree was blown down and blocked portions of Fierce Ridge Road just past the Kassler farm. |
| March 2026 | Flood | Trimble | - | Sunday Creek at Glouster rose above a bankfull level of 13 feet shortly after midnight on March 12th, then continued to rise to a crest near 13.8 feet later that morning. The creek then receded back into its banks in the early afternoon. In the midst of the creek running out of its banks, flooding took place along portions of Oakdale Road, South Town Street, Kennedy Road, and Glouster Memorial Park in Glouster. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Trimble | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jacksonville | 0.7 miles | 19 | |
| Glouster | 1.3 miles | 14 | |
| Redtown | 1.5 miles | 19 | |
| Olbers | 1.6 miles | 19 | |
| Derthick | 2.1 miles | 19 | |
| Hollister | 2.3 miles | 14 | |
| Greens Run | 2.3 miles | 19 | |
| Oakdale | 2.7 miles | 14 |
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 Trimble | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2193366 | 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 1077072. 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.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
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.





























