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Norwood, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Norwood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30821. The Survey maps it on the Warrenton quadrangle. 202 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 614 feet above sea level.

Norwood within Warren County

Population over time

3 figures

Norwood fell from 299 to 202 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
2000299
2010239-60 (-20%)
2020202-37 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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

188 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 188 fires within 5 miles of Norwood between 1992 and 2020, burning about 590 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 17 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 burning108
Arson/incendiarism17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Smoking14
Equipment and vehicle use12
Natural11
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Recreation and ceremony1

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
9 September 1999Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-WARREN-013
6 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2017Debris and open burning5.3 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2018-WARREN-003
26 September 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020WARREN009
2 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-WARREN-011
15 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Warren County

Storms near this place

11 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Norwood in 11 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado, 1 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
April 2011Tornado (EF1)Norwood$1,000,000A damage survey conducted by the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Peachtree City, Georgia confirmed that the final tornado to touch down within the county warning area of the April 27th and April 28th outbreak was in Warren county. This was yet again another EF1 tornado. The tornado touched down four miles southwest of Norwood and tracked nearly eight miles on an east-northeastward path across northern Warren county lifting one mile northeast of Camak. The maximum path width was determined to be 1/4 mile with maximum winds estimated to be 105 mph. Eight homes sustained moderate to major damage along the path of the tornado, mostly from large fallen trees on the structures. Hundreds of trees and several power lines were down along the path of the tornado. There were no fatalities or injuries with the final tornado of this historical outbreak.||[04/27-04/28/11: Tornado #15, County #1-1, EF1, Warren, 2011:024].
July 2013FloodNorwood$10,000The Warren County emergency manager reported additional rainfall of around two inches on already wet soils caused the drainage systems to be overwhelmed leading to some washed out roads in the Warrenton area.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindNorwood$5,000The Warren County 911 Center reported that several trees and power lines were down in the Norwood area. It appeared to them to have possibly been a downburst.
April 1997Thunderstorm WindNorwood$5,000no account filed
February 2012Thunderstorm WindNorwood$3,000The Warren County Emergency Manager reported that a couple of trees were blown down in Norwood and a few trees were blown down in Camak.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindNorwood$2,000Trees down in the 1000-4000 blocks of Ridge Road in Norwood.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindNorwood$2,000The Warren County 911 center reported trees blown down along Highway 278 in Norwood and along Washington Highway in Camak.
January 2001Thunderstorm WindNorwood$2,000The Warren county 911 center reported that trees were down.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindNorwood$1,000Warren county 911 reported numerous trees knocked down by thunderstorm winds.
August 2009HailNorwood-The public observed penny-sized hail in the north central part of the county, near and just west of Norwood.
September 2003HailNorwood-The Norwood Post Office reported dime-sized hail.

Every storm recorded in Warren 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
Camak3.2 miles10
Silvertown4.2 miles10
Warrenton4.5 miles10
East Warrenton5.2 miles10
Plainview5.2 miles10
Thigpen5.2 miles12
Cadley5.5 miles12
Cedar Rock5.5 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 NorwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3056827The 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 319712. 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.