Norwood, Wisconsin
Norwood is a town (Wisconsin), town in Langlade County, Wisconsin, Langlade County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 913 at the 2010 census. The unincorporated community of Phlox, Wisconsin, Phlox is located in the town. Geography Norwood is on the southern edge of Langlade County, bordered to the east by Menominee County, Wisconsin, Menominee County and to the south by Shawano County, Wisconsin, Shawano County. It is southeast of Antigo, Wisconsin, Antigo, the county seat. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town of Norwood has a total area of , of which are land and , or 1.54%, are water. The Red River (Wolf River tributary), Red River, a tributary of the Wolf River (Fox River tributary), Wolf River, rises in the town and drains most of its area. The West Branch of the Red River crosses the southwest corner of the town. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 918 people, 332 households, and 252 families residing in the town. The population ...
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Town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an origin with the German word , the Dutch word , and the Old Norse . The original Proto-Germanic word, *''tūnan'', is thought to be an early borrowing from Proto-Celtic *''dūnom'' (cf. Old Irish , Welsh ). The original sense of the word in both Germanic and Celtic was that of a fortress or an enclosure. Cognates of ''town'' in many modern Germanic languages designate a fence or a hedge. In English and Dutch, the meaning of the word took on the sense of the space which these fences enclosed, and through which a track must run. In England, a town was a small community that could not afford or was not allowed to build walls or other larger fortifications, and built a palisade or stockade instead. In the Netherlands, this space was a garden, mor ...
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