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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.

Norwood Young America within Carver County

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.

Population over time

2 figures

Norwood 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.

YearPeople Change
20103,549
20203,863+314 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

Fires near this place

1 since 2003

Regional 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 use1

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
20 October 2003Equipment and vehicle use200 acresMinnesota Department of Natural ResourcesBENTON TOWNSHIP FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carver County

Storms near this place

12 since 2013

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2022Thunderstorm WindNorwood Young America$5,000Several large trees were blown down in the Norwood, Young America area.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindNorwood Young America$5,000A large tree was blown over, and fell onto an apartment building causing some structural damage in Norwood/Young America.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindNorwood Young America$5,000There 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 2013Thunderstorm WindNorwood Young America$2,000Power poles were blown down near Highway 5 and Tacoma Avenue.
June 2024Heavy RainNorwood Young America-The storm total was 3.3 inches of rainfall.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindNorwood Young America-A large tree blew down on a vehicle in the city of Norwood/Young America.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindNorwood Young America-Power lines were blown down in the Norwood, Young America area.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindNorwood Young America-A few 8 inch diameter tree branches were blown down in Norwood Young America.
June 2025Funnel CloudNorwood Young America-no account filed
June 2025HailNorwood Young America-no account filed
June 2025HailNorwood Young America-no account filed
May 2014HailNorwood Young America-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carver 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
Faxon Court0.2 miles11
Norwood (historical)0.5 miles11
Young America (historical)0.8 miles11
Hamburg3.7 miles11
Bongards3.9 miles12
Hydes Lake4.9 miles12
Cologne7.4 miles12
Benton7.5 miles12

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 AmericaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1008725The 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.