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Trent, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Merkel census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79561. The Survey maps it on the Chalk Peak quadrangle. 295 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,913 feet above sea level.

Trent within Taylor County

Population over time

2 figures

Trent fell from 337 to 295 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
2010337
2020295-42 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

115 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 115 fires within 5 miles of Trent between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,540 acres in total. 7 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
Equipment and vehicle use58
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Debris and open burning18
Natural7
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Smoking1

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
7 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service263 1/2 GRASS FIRE
7 September 2009Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service264CM GRASS FIRE
3 September 2014Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service266WB GRASS FIRES
3 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service264 GRASS FIRE
3 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service262 CENTER MEDIAN
29 September 2011Natural75 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSLITER FIRE
21 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRENT MESA FIRE 2

Every fire recorded in Taylor County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Trent: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper. 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
UnknownCopperOccurrence1970

Every working recorded in Taylor County

Storms near this place

28 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Trent in 28 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 18 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 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
June 2009Thunderstorm WindTrent$25,000Four telephone poles were blown down on County Road 365, just southeast of Trent.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindTrent$2,000Winds estimated at 60 mph toppled power poles and damaged mobile homes.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindTrent-An emergency manager reported a partial train derailment was caused by very strong straight line winds. There were 20 to 25 train cars blown over. The estimated wind speed was 80 mph. The estimated wind speed is based on doppler radar.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindTrent-The Nolan County Sheriff's Office reported wind gusts of 60 mph along I-20 near Trent.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindTrent-A few tree limbs were blown down. The largest limb was 2 to 3 inches in diameter and was 4 to 5 feet long.
June 2013HailTrent-Law enforcement officials reported hail along the Noodle Dome Road, near the Jones and Taylor County line.
April 2012HailTrent-The Taylor County Sheriff's Office reported pea to quarter size hail in Trent.
April 2007Tornado (EF0)Trent-This tornado was observed briefly just to the north of Trent. No damage was reported.
August 2007Flash FloodTrent-Farm road 1085 closed south of Trent.
May 1999HailTrent-Baseball size hail.
May 1997Flash FloodTrent-On May 8-9, a slow moving cold front resulted in widespread 1 to 2 inch rainfall over the Big Country. along a 40 mile wide line from Roby in Fisher County to San Saba. Specific rainfall reports include 1.91 inches in Trent and 1.3 inches in Abilene. Flooding occurred on and around Interstate 20 between Trent and Abilene, in Taylor County. Road closures were reported in Fisher County.
May 1995Tornado (F0)Trent-A brief tornado touchdown was reported.
April 2021HailTrent-no account filed
May 2008HailTrent-no account filed
May 2007HailTrent-no account filed
April 2006HailTrent-no account filed
April 2006HailTrent-no account filed
May 2004HailTrent-no account filed
May 2002HailTrent-no account filed
May 2002HailTrent-no account filed
March 2001HailTrent-no account filed
August 2001HailTrent-no account filed
June 1999HailTrent-no account filed
April 1999HailTrent-no account filed
May 1997Thunderstorm WindTrent-no account filed
April 1997HailTrent-no account filed
July 1994HailTrent-no account filed
March 1993HailTrent-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Taylor 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
Blair5.9 miles14
Merkel6.2 miles14
Mount Pleasant10.4 miles15
Cozart11.3 miles15
Tye13.7 miles18
View16.3 miles15
Caps16.8 miles15
Impact20.2 miles17

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 Q974774The 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 1376497. 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.