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Norwood, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Potsdam town. It lies in ZIP code area 13668. It lies near Wilbur Hill. The Survey maps it on the Norfolk quadrangle. 1,552 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 331 feet above sea level.

Norwood within St. Lawrence County

Then and now

1906 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Norwood, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Norwood, surveyed 1906

Compare 1906 against another survey:

On record in Norwood

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Norwood fell from 1,657 to 1,552 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
20101,657
20201,552-105 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 17 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

181 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 181 fires within 5 miles of Norwood between 2000 and 2020, burning about 200 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 36 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined109
Arson/incendiarism36
Natural15
Debris and open burning10
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking4
Other causes1

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
9 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 September 2018Smoking3.1 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
29 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
23 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Lawrence County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Norwood: 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Dolomite. 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
Barrett QuarryDolomitePast ProducerSurface
Norwood QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
La Rue PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
La Rue PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Norwood QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in St. Lawrence County

Storms near this place

6 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Norwood in 6 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 hail. 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
July 2021Thunderstorm WindNorwood$20,000Numerous trees and utility lines downed by thunderstorm winds.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindNorwood$20,000Numerous trees and power lines downed by strong winds.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindNorwood$10,000Numerous trees were blown down.
June 1997LightningNorwood$10,000no account filed
July 2024Thunderstorm WindNorwood$5,000A few reports of trees down and on utility lines in the Norwood vicinity.
July 2008HailNorwood-Quarter size hail reported by Postal Service employee.

Every storm recorded in St. Lawrence 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
Yaleville1.1 miles17
Unionville2.7 miles19
Sisson3.2 miles19
Hewittville3.4 miles14
North Stockholm3.4 miles17
Norfolk3.4 miles17
Sandfordville5.2 miles19
West Stockholm5.6 miles19

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 Q3452493The 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 976744. 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.