Norwood Young America, Minnesota
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Young America Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55397. The Survey maps it on the Norwood quadrangle. 3,863 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 991 feet above sea level.
On record in Norwood Young America
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 3 records
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Norwood Methodist Episcopal Churchlisted 1980 · 0.4 miles away
Winter Saloonlisted 1980 · 0.5 miles away
Young America City Halllisted 1980 · 0.7 miles away
Population over time
2 figuresNorwood Young America grew from 3,549 to 3,863 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 | 3,549 | |
| 2020 | 3,863 | +314 (+9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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 Saint Paul quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Waconia quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Norwood quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Norwood Young America in 2003, burning about 200 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 October 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | 200 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | BENTON TOWNSHIP FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
12 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Norwood Young America in 12 storm reports between 2013 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 heavy rain, 1 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Norwood Young America | $5,000 | Several large trees were blown down in the Norwood, Young America area. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Norwood Young America | $5,000 | A large tree was blown over, and fell onto an apartment building causing some structural damage in Norwood/Young America. |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Norwood Young America | $5,000 | There were several trees blown down, two on power lines, and one on a cable/telephone line. The debris was blocking two streets in Norwood Young America. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Norwood Young America | $2,000 | Power poles were blown down near Highway 5 and Tacoma Avenue. |
| June 2024 | Heavy Rain | Norwood Young America | - | The storm total was 3.3 inches of rainfall. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Norwood Young America | - | A large tree blew down on a vehicle in the city of Norwood/Young America. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Norwood Young America | - | Power lines were blown down in the Norwood, Young America area. |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Norwood Young America | - | A few 8 inch diameter tree branches were blown down in Norwood Young America. |
| June 2025 | Funnel Cloud | Norwood Young America | - | no account filed |
| June 2025 | Hail | Norwood Young America | - | no account filed |
| June 2025 | Hail | Norwood Young America | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Norwood Young America | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Faxon Court | 0.2 miles | 11 | |
| Norwood (historical) | 0.5 miles | 11 | |
| Young America (historical) | 0.8 miles | 11 | |
| Hamburg | 3.7 miles | 11 | |
| Bongards | 3.9 miles | 12 | |
| Hydes Lake | 4.9 miles | 12 | |
| Cologne | 7.4 miles | 12 | |
| Benton | 7.5 miles | 12 |
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 Young America | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1008725 | 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 1764916. 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.






