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Trinidad, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Cedar Creek Lake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75163. The Survey maps it on the Malakoff quadrangle. 860 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 302 feet above sea level.

Trinidad within Henderson County

Population over time

3 figures

Trinidad fell from 1,091 to 860 between 2000 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
20001,091
2010886-205 (-19%)
2020860-26 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 11 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

126 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 126 fires within 5 miles of Trinidad between 1995 and 2019, burning about 724 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined66
Debris and open burning33
Equipment and vehicle use13
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking3
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTHOMSON
8 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE ON STATE HWY 274
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCITY OF TRINIDAD
6 September 2010Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceS.HWY 31
30 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHICKE
30 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1013488
27 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTATE OF TEXAS
24 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTATE OF TEXAS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Henderson County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Trinidad: 3 producers, 3 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Malakoff PitFire Clay (Refractory)ProducerSedimentary
Malakoff Pits & PlantClayProducer
UnknownClayPast Producer
UnknownClayProducer
UnknownClayPast Producer
UnknownClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Henderson County

Storms near this place

14 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Trinidad in 14 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 7 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado. 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
March 2016Tornado (EF0)Trinidad$200,000A National Weather Service storm survey crew found evidence of a tornado which began south of the city of Trinidad, and move northeast to the city of Malakoff. The tornado began by damaging several trees and homes near Trinidad. As the tornado moved northeast, trees were damaged along State Highway 34, before entering southwest Malakoff. Approximately 10 homes were damaged in Malakoff, with one home losing a chimney, part of the roof, and several large trees on the property.
May 2025HailTrinidad$12,000Report from mPING: Tennis Ball (2.50 in.).
October 2010Thunderstorm WindTrinidad$7,000The Sheriff's Office received at least 20 calls about trees on roadways across the county. The Precinct 1 County Commissioner was still out removing tree limbs from county roads the next morning.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindTrinidad$1,000One large tree was split and another was uprooted.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindTrinidad$200Thunderstorm winds blew down large tree limbs.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindTrinidad$200Thunderstorm winds blew down some trees.
June 2024HailTrinidad-Reported via mPing.
April 2024HailTrinidad-Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.).
March 2016Thunderstorm WindTrinidad-Henderson County Sheriff's Department reported damage all over the Malakoff-Trinidad area.
March 2006HailTrinidad-no account filed
March 2000HailTrinidad-no account filed
March 2000HailTrinidad-no account filed
March 2000Tornado (F0)Trinidad-no account filed
April 1998HailTrinidad-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Henderson 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
Star Harbor3.9 miles11
Malakoff4.5 miles11
Caney City6.4 miles11
Log Cabin6.5 miles11
Crescent Heights8.4 miles15
Enchanted Oaks8.4 miles14
Cross Roads9.3 miles15
Payne Springs9.3 miles14

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 TrinidadAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981535The 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 1381023. 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.