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Trenton, South Carolina

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Trenton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29847. It stands on Buck Branch. The Survey maps it on the Trenton quadrangle. 200 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 620 feet above sea level.

Trenton within Edgefield 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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Trenton grew from 196 to 200 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
2010196
2020200+4 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

177 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 177 fires within 5 miles of Trenton between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,114 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 10 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/undetermined72
Debris and open burning57
Equipment and vehicle use12
Arson/incendiarism10
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Natural5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking3
Other causes2
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 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined17 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2001Misuse of fire by a minor2.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2007Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry CommissionTRENTON
19 September 1999Debris and open burning4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Edgefield County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Trenton: 3 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Granite, Stone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Granite, 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
Edgefield Granite QuarryGranite, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerIgneous Intrusion
Unidentified Granite QuarryGranite, Stone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerIgneous Intrusion
Satterfield Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary
Satterfield Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Edgefield County

Storms near this place

16 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Trenton in 16 storm reports between 1995 and 2014: 10 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2011Thunderstorm WindTrenton$2,000Public reported trees down on Watson Road just northeast of Trenton.
October 2014Funnel CloudTrenton-Public reported a wall cloud and a funnel cloud.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindTrenton-DOT reported trees down on hwy 75.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindTrenton-Sheriff reported trees down on hwy 149.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindTrenton-County official reported several trees down in Trenton and Johnston.
August 2007HailTrenton-EM reported 3/4 inch hail.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindTrenton-SKYWARN spotter reported large limbs and power outages in the Trenton area.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindTrenton-Sheriff reported large limbs down in Trenton on Woodyard Road.
May 2005HailTrenton-Public reported penny size hail.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindTrenton-Emergency manager reported trees down in Trenton and on hwy 191.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindTrenton-TV met reported trees down near the Edgefield/Aiken county line southwest of Trenton.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindTrenton-Sheriff reported several trees down in Trenton.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindTrenton-EOC reported trees down.
June 1998Tornado (F0)Trenton-SKYWARN spotter reported touchdown in field behind his house.
March 1996HailTrenton-no account filed
October 1995HailTrenton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Edgefield 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
Pine House Crossroads1.0 miles18
Rotalata1.2 miles18
Bouknight3.1 miles11
Huets Crossroads3.2 miles12
Parkhill3.2 miles12
Harmony3.9 miles11
Swearingen (historical)5.0 miles17
Edgefield5.7 miles12

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 Q2185864The 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 1251201. 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.