Norwood, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Norwood Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49720. The Survey maps it on the Atwood OE W quadrangle.

Norwood within Charlevoix County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 11 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.

1954 USGS Central Lake quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1955 USGS Cheboygan quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1958 USGS Cheboygan quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Charlevoix quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

7 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Norwood between 2003 and 2019, burning about 91 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Debris and open burning	2
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
5 June 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 May 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BANKS TOWNSHIP FD 18-0007 - 2018
15 May 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BANKS TOWNSHIP FD 019-008 - 2019
21 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BANKS TOWNSHIP FD 019-005 - 2019
15 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BANKS TOWNSHIP FD 019-004 - 2019
14 April 2009	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CHARLEVOIX 01
14 April 2003	Debris and open burning	83 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Charlevoix 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 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unnamed Shale Pit	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Charlevoix 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Barnard	4.9 miles	13
Phelps	6.4 miles	13
Boulder Park	8.6 miles	13
Charlevoix Estates	8.7 miles	13
Charlevoix	9.6 miles	13
Ironton	10.7 miles	13
East Jordan	14.2 miles	13
Burgess	15.0 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 633765. 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.