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Trinity County, California

Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

4historic places

—earliest paper

1850formed

16,112pop. 2020

11cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 4 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1971. Most listings are in or near Trinity Center, Helena, Lewiston.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for California is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Trinity titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

1 of 4 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

4 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Bowerman Barn	Trinity Center	Building	1981
Helena Historic District	Helena	District	1984
Lewiston Historic District	Lewiston	District	1989
Weaverville Historic District	Weaverville	District	1971

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Trinity was formed in 1850 (1850-02-18) from unknown / original county.

TRINITY created from non-county area; TRINITY not fully organized, attached to SHASTA for judicial and other purposes.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Trinity County population from 1850 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1850	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
1,635	5,125	4,999	4,383	2,551	3,970	5,087	9,706	11,858	13,022	16,112

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

National Park Service sites nearby

NPS

Park units within about 40 km of the county centroid (from NPS Public POIs; no API key).

Site	Type	Dist.
Whiskeytown National Recreation Area	Park unit	44.9 km

Source: NPS National Datasets / Public POIs. The NPS Developer API requires a free key and was not used.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

11 cemeteries and 5 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 11 of 11 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Hayfork Cemetery	40.54577	-123.17999
Helena Cemetery	40.7719	-123.12518
Hyampom Cemetery	40.13864	-123.44417
Hyampom Cemetery	40.61486	-123.44377
Lewiston Cemetery	40.70907	-122.81465
Lewiston Pioneer Cemetery	40.70585	-122.80775
Norgaar Family Cemetery	40.37255	-123.32178
Price Creek Cemetery	40.73431	-123.2555
Ridgeville Cemetery	40.86194	-122.80336
Salyer Cemetery	40.8963	-123.58442
Weaverville Cemetery	40.73059	-122.94481

Historical populated places — 5 of 5

Name	Lat	Lon
Bragdon	40.89042	-122.69947
Keno	40.7582	-122.71585
Minersville	40.85126	-122.78308
Norgaar	40.4157	-123.40809
Stringtown	41.04126	-122.70224

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

HMdb link

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