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Norristown, Georgia

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Adrian census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31002. It stands on Mulepen Creek. The Survey maps it on the Norristown quadrangle. 54 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 246 feet above sea level.

Norristown within Emanuel County

Population over time

2 figures

Norristown fell from 59 to 54 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
201059
202054-5 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 7 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

313 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 313 fires within 5 miles of Norristown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,580 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 43 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
Debris and open burning182
Arson/incendiarism43
Equipment and vehicle use28
Natural20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Recreation and ceremony9
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Smoking8

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 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2013-TREUTLEN-002
8 September 2002Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-LAURENS-043
7 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use2.7 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2008Debris and open burning1.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020EMANUEL011
25 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.7 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Emanuel County

Storms near this place

6 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Norristown in 6 storm reports between 1999 and 2023: 4 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 2023Thunderstorm WindNorristown$1,000A tree was downed on Keas Old Mill Pond Road at Highway 221.
March 2000Thunderstorm WindNorristown$1,000The Emanuel county sheriff's office reported thunderstorm winds knocked trees and power lines down between Norristown and Swainsboro on Highway 221 South.
March 2013HailNorristown-Broadcast media reported quarter sized hail in Norristown.
October 2010HailNorristown-The public observed quarter-sized hail in the west central part of the county between Norristown, Nunez, and Swainsboro.
July 2007HailNorristown-The public observed penny-sized hail.
May 1999HailNorristown-There were a few reports of hail, ranging from dime to half dollar size.

Every storm recorded in Emanuel 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
Covena2.8 miles9
Norristown Junction3.5 miles7
Adrian5.3 miles7
Nunez7.9 miles10
Kirby8.5 miles7
Wesley8.8 miles10
Gary10.0 miles7
Swainsboro10.6 miles7

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 NorristownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6045092The 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 332511. 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.

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.