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.
Population over time
3 figuresNorwood 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 299 | |
| 2010 | 239 | -60 (-20%) |
| 2020 | 202 | -37 (-15%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 10 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.
- 1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Warrenton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Thomson quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
188 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 108 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 17 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 16 |
| Smoking | 14 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Natural | 11 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2012-WARREN-013 |
| 6 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 5.3 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2018-WARREN-003 |
| 26 September 1994 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020WARREN009 |
| 2 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2012-WARREN-011 |
| 15 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
11 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2011 | Tornado (EF1) | Norwood | $1,000,000 | A 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 2013 | Flood | Norwood | $10,000 | The 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 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Norwood | $5,000 | The 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 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Norwood | $5,000 | no account filed |
| February 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Norwood | $3,000 | The 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 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Norwood | $2,000 | Trees down in the 1000-4000 blocks of Ridge Road in Norwood. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Norwood | $2,000 | The Warren County 911 center reported trees blown down along Highway 278 in Norwood and along Washington Highway in Camak. |
| January 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Norwood | $2,000 | The Warren county 911 center reported that trees were down. |
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Norwood | $1,000 | Warren county 911 reported numerous trees knocked down by thunderstorm winds. |
| August 2009 | Hail | Norwood | - | The public observed penny-sized hail in the north central part of the county, near and just west of Norwood. |
| September 2003 | Hail | Norwood | - | The Norwood Post Office reported dime-sized hail. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Camak | 3.2 miles | 10 | |
| Silvertown | 4.2 miles | 10 | |
| Warrenton | 4.5 miles | 10 | |
| East Warrenton | 5.2 miles | 10 | |
| Plainview | 5.2 miles | 10 | |
| Thigpen | 5.2 miles | 12 | |
| Cadley | 5.5 miles | 12 | |
| Cedar Rock | 5.5 miles | 14 |
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 Norwood | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3056827 | 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 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.






