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Trent, South Dakota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Trent town. It lies in ZIP code area 57065. It stands on Brookfield Creek. The Survey maps it on the Trent quadrangle. 206 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,503 feet above sea level.

Trent within Moody County

On record in Trent

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

Trent fell from 232 to 206 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
2010232
2020206-26 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

31 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Trent between 2002 and 2020, burning about 129 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined11
Debris and open burning11
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking2
Fireworks2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Arson/incendiarism1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
4 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionDOUG KOUPAL SR.
2 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionDIGGER
30 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionDITCH
30 July 2017Fireworksunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionHAY FIRE
30 July 2017Misuse of fire by a minor5.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionCANOE
21 July 2006Smoking1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
16 July 2006Smoking1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
10 July 2007Fireworksunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Moody County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Trent: 2 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Moody County

Storms near this place

26 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Trent in 26 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 17 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 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
July 1997HailTrent$50,000no account filed
August 2005Thunderstorm WindTrent$30,000Thunderstorm winds destroyed a barn by moving it 100 feet off its foundation, after which it collapsed. The collapsing barn heavily damaged a stock trailer. The winds also blew off part of the roof of a barn on a nearby farm. Tree damage was significant, with over 20 trees blown down, as well as numerous branches on other trees. One large branch that fell damaged a car and the roof of a house.
June 2008Tornado (EF1)Trent$10,000A tornado blew a 40 by 100 foot metal machine shed a quarter mile, destroyed an outbuilding, and damaged trees.
March 2012Thunderstorm WindTrent$5,000Thunderstorm winds damaged several outbuildings on a farmstead.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindTrent$2,000Thunderstorm wind gusts downed several large tree limbs from 6 to 10 inches in diameter. Property damage costs are a rough estimate.
September 2025Thunderstorm WindTrent-Thunderstorm wind gusts as high as 73 mph were measured by a personal weather station near Trent.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindTrent-A large tree branch was broken off by thunderstorm wind gusts.
June 2019Flash FloodTrent-Water flowing over county highway 14.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindTrent-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including large branches blown down.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindTrent-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including 5 to 8 inch diameter branches blown down.
August 2017HailTrent-no account filed
July 2014HailTrent-no account filed
July 2014HailTrent-no account filed
June 2013HailTrent-no account filed
July 2005HailTrent-no account filed
July 2005HailTrent-no account filed
August 2005HailTrent-no account filed
May 2004HailTrent-no account filed
May 2002HailTrent-no account filed
April 2002HailTrent-no account filed
June 2002HailTrent-no account filed
July 2002HailTrent-no account filed
June 2001HailTrent-no account filed
August 2001HailTrent-no account filed
July 2000HailTrent-no account filed
September 1997HailTrent-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Moody 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
Sioux Falls Junction5.4 miles8
Lone Tree6.4 miles8
Egan6.4 miles8
Colman10.0 miles9
Flandreau10.3 miles8
Pleasant Valley Colony14.5 miles9
Ward20.0 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 TrentAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1898599The 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 1258600. 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.