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Norwood, Ohio

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Norwood City. It lies in ZIP code area 45212. The Survey maps it on the Cincinnati East quadrangle. 19,043 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 656 feet above sea level.

Norwood within Hamilton County

Population over time

2 figures

Norwood fell from 19,207 to 19,043 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. 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
201019,207
202019,043-164 (-1%)

Then and now

1898 to 1986

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 1986
Topographic sheet of Norwood, surveyed 1898

Topographic sheets covering this place

19 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Norwood city, The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From History of Hamilton County, Ohio, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, published 1881 - Norwood City

Jared Cloud

of Colerain township, was born on St. Patrick's day, the seventeenth of March, 1808; is of Welsh and English descent on his father's side and of French descent on that of his mother. Mason Jones Cloud, his grandfather, came from Virginia about the year 1778, and settled in Boone county, Kentucky. Unfortunately for the fate of Mason, he was required to return to Virginia for a sum of money there due him, and after only a three days' stay in his new home, in company with two others, set out on his perilous trip, and, with his companions, was massacred on Licking river by the hostile Indians.

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In the county-history sources

13,717 words on this township

History of Hamilton County, Ohio, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Norwood City. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

This beautiful and noted suburb was formerly known in part as Sharpsburgh. It is on the Montgomery turnpike, and the Marietta & Cincinnati railroad, in the northwest part of section thirty-tour, near the west line of the township. Some of the ground near, as that upon which the celebrated mound is situated (Norwood Heights), is among the. most elevated in the county. It was projected in 1870 by some well-known residents and Cincinnatians - Colonel P. P. Lane, Judge James

Passage source: History of Hamilton County, Ohio, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, published 1881.

For many years Judge McCullough was accustomed, with the annual recurrence of Independence day, to invite large parties to the free use of his house and beautiful grounds at Norwood, serving them also a generous and gratuitous collation.

Passage source: History of Hamilton County, Ohio, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, published 1881.

This place, a mile and a half south-southwest of Norwood, and something less from the northwest corner of Cincinnati, being just a mile from the Observatory, began to be considered a suburb of considerable importance by 1867, soon after the completion of the Marietta & Cincinnati railroad. It was not regularly laid out, however, until-1870, when Mr. Theodore Drake had the place surveyed and platted. It is beautifully situated upon the railroad named, upon the margin of the great interior valley mentioned in our description of the township, and is also conveniently reached by the Madison pike, being only five miles from the county court house, in the city. Its site was formerly owned by Anthony Brown, who sold it to Paul Shuster. Among its flourishing institutions have been the Literary and Musical society, and the Oakley Coterie. By the census of 1880 the village had two hundred inhabitants.

Passage source: History of Hamilton County, Ohio, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, published 1881.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Norwood City - it names this place 4 more 4 times.

Photographs

2 photographs,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Pfau Manufacturing Company, 1775 Mentor Avenue, Norwood, Hamilton County, OH
Pfau Manufacturing Company, 1775 Mentor Avenue, Norwood, Hamilton County, OH
Unattributed, . Library of Congress
R. K. LeBlond Machine Tool Company, Production Building, 2980 Madison Road, Norwood, Hamilton County, OH
R. K. LeBlond Machine Tool Company, Production Building, 2980 Madison Road, Norwood, Hamilton County, OH
Unattributed, . Library of Congress

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 7,287 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 7,287 specimens collected within 10 miles of Norwood between 1819 and 1975: 3,913 Fungi, 1,932 Animalia, 954 Plantae, 434 Protozoa, 33 Unrecorded, 20 Chromista, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A Schwartz, A. Braun, A. F. Braun and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Clavaria striata Pers.Clavaria striata Pers.1899Aiken, Walter H.College Hill
Specimen of Corticium polyporoideum Berk. & M.A.CurtisCorticium polyporoideum Berk. & M.A.Curtis1899C.G. LloydCincinnati
Specimen of Microsphaera diffusa Cooke & PeckMicrosphaera diffusa Cooke & Peck1899Aiken, Walter H.Cincinnati
A photograph of the species Quercus leana, not of this specimenQuercus × leana Nutt.1819Thomas Nuttall3 miles North of Cincinnati
A photograph of the species Atrichum angustatum, not of this specimenAtrichum angustatum (Brid.) Bruch & Schimp.1820T. G. Leaprobably Cincinnatti
A photograph of the species Barbula unguiculata, not of this specimenBarbula unguiculata Hedw.1820T. G. Leaprobably Cincinnatti
A photograph of the species Sebacina calcea, not of this specimenSebacina calcea (Pers.) Bres.1827Lloyd C. G.Linwood
A photograph of the species Rhus venenata, not of this specimenRhus venenata DC.1830Clark, JosephNorth of Cincinnati
A photograph of the species Equisetum arvense, not of this specimenEquisetum arvense L.1834Short, Charles Wilkins; Lea, Thomas G.Cincinnati
A photograph of the species Carex comosa, not of this specimenCarex comosa Boott1835Collector unspecifiedIn citivate Ohio prope Cincinnati. [Inferred locality from precise loc.]
A photograph of the species Carex lupulina, not of this specimenCarex lupulina Muhl. ex Willd.1835Joseph C. FrankCincinnati.
Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel1897Kellerman, W.A.College Hill

All 7,287 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Norwood: 3 unknowns, 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zirconium, Titanium, Tin, Lead, Antimony. 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
Avril Co/ Cincinnati, OhioTin, Lead, AntimonyUnknown
Continental Mineral/ Sharonville OhZirconium, TitaniumUnknown
N L Industries/ Cincinnati, OhioZirconiumUnknown
George L. Rack PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
George L. Rack PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Hamilton County

Storms near this place

17 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Norwood in 17 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 4 hail, 1 flood. 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
April 2006Thunderstorm WindNorwood$30,000An apartment building suffered a partial collapse.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindNorwood$20,000A few trees were downed, including two that fell onto parked cars.
September 2015Thunderstorm WindNorwood$10,000Numerous trees and power lines were downed in the Madisonville area, especially along Roe Street.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindNorwood$8,000A few trees were downed. A power pole and wires were also downed.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindNorwood$3,000A few trees were downed.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindNorwood$1,000A large tree was downed on Roe Street.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindNorwood$1,000Large limbs were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
March 2017Flash FloodNorwood-Residents were forced to evacuate homes along Simpson Avenue due to rising water.
August 2016Flash FloodNorwood-One to two feet of water was reported on Wooster Pike.
July 2013FloodNorwood-Water was over the road at Simpson Avenue and Bedford Street estimated at 2 feet deep due to heavy rainfall.
September 1998Flash FloodNorwood-Several hours of heavy rainfall caused Duck Creek to rise out of its banks. Also, several roads were covered by high water.
September 2015HailNorwood-no account filed
April 2011Thunderstorm WindNorwood-no account filed
May 2010HailNorwood-no account filed
April 2001HailNorwood-no account filed
July 1997HailNorwood-no account filed
July 1996Flash FloodNorwood-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hamilton 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
Idlewood0.9 miles19
Evanston0.9 miles19
Idlewild1.2 miles19
Bond Hill1.4 miles19
Oakley Square1.4 miles19
O'Bryonsville1.6 miles19
Hyde Park1.7 miles19
Oakley1.8 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 Q740980The 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 1056460. 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.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

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.