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Norwood, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Science Hill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42553. It lies near Holtzclaw Knob. The Survey maps it on the Science Hill quadrangle. It stands 1,122 feet above sea level.

Norwood within Pulaski County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

20 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Norwood between 1998 and 2020, burning about 157 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning8
Recreation and ceremony4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Arson/incendiarism2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking1

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
28 August 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 April 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryLISA
6 April 2010Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 April 2001Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 April 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryWEST GATE
13 April 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryWARE ROAD FIRE
1 April 2014Railroad operations and maintenance20 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHALL
8 March 2002Recreation and ceremony50 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pulaski County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Norwood: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Somerset QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Pulaski County

Storms near this place

6 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Norwood in 6 storm reports between 2012 and 2025: 6 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
May 2025Thunderstorm WindNorwood-A tree was blown down and blocking the entire highway at around 1000 East Frog Hollow Road.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindNorwood-County dispatch reported tree blown down off of Nelson Valley Road near the intersection of Jeffries Drive.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindNorwood-County dispatch reported tree blown down onto a power line off of KY-1247 near the intersection of Raleigh Road.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindNorwood-Dispatch reported a tree downed on Kentucky Highway 1247 near the intersection with Norwood Mt. Zion Road south of Science Hill.
November 2013Thunderstorm WindNorwood-A tree was blown down and onto Hwy 2227.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindNorwood-Power lines were blown down on Hwy 1247 south of Science Hill.

Every storm recorded in Pulaski 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
Science Hill1.8 miles9
Ringgold3.2 miles10
Mount Zion3.3 miles9
Pulaski4.0 miles9
Hogue4.2 miles9
Somerset4.4 miles11
Sugar Hill4.4 miles9
Dabney4.9 miles9

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 Q7061592The 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 499619. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.