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.
Population over time
2 figuresNorristown 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 59 | |
| 2020 | 54 | -5 (-8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 7 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1971 USGS Norristown quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Dublin quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
313 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 182 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 43 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 28 |
| Natural | 20 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 9 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 9 |
| Smoking | 8 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2013-TREUTLEN-002 |
| 8 September 2002 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2003-LAURENS-043 |
| 7 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.7 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.4 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 September 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020EMANUEL011 |
| 25 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.7 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 1999Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Norristown | $1,000 | A tree was downed on Keas Old Mill Pond Road at Highway 221. |
| March 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Norristown | $1,000 | The Emanuel county sheriff's office reported thunderstorm winds knocked trees and power lines down between Norristown and Swainsboro on Highway 221 South. |
| March 2013 | Hail | Norristown | - | Broadcast media reported quarter sized hail in Norristown. |
| October 2010 | Hail | Norristown | - | The public observed quarter-sized hail in the west central part of the county between Norristown, Nunez, and Swainsboro. |
| July 2007 | Hail | Norristown | - | The public observed penny-sized hail. |
| May 1999 | Hail | Norristown | - | There were a few reports of hail, ranging from dime to half dollar size. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Covena | 2.8 miles | 9 | |
| Norristown Junction | 3.5 miles | 7 | |
| Adrian | 5.3 miles | 7 | |
| Nunez | 7.9 miles | 10 | |
| Kirby | 8.5 miles | 7 | |
| Wesley | 8.8 miles | 10 | |
| Gary | 10.0 miles | 7 | |
| Swainsboro | 10.6 miles | 7 |
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 Norristown | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6045092 | The 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.





