Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Norwood, MI

Norwood is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Charlevoix County in Michigan's northwestern Lower Peninsula, set along the shore of Lake Michigan in Norwood Township.

The area was settled in 1867, when Orvis Wood, Lucius Pearl and Orin Adams built a dock and sawmill on the lakeshore — at a time when the site was still part of Emmet County, two years before Charlevoix County was organized.

Norwood's name was chosen for its setting in the northern woods, and its post office opened on February 1, 1868, with hotel keeper William Harris as the first postmaster; the office operated until 1913.

With its dock and hotel, Norwood became an important Lake Michigan shipping point in its early years.

The Norwood School District No. 1 was organized in 1867, and its 1890 schoolhouse — after the district merged into Charlevoix's schools in 1957 and the building served as a church — was restored as a museum by the Norwood Area Historical Society and dedicated as a Michigan State Historic Site in 2017.

Norwood was listed as a newly organized census-designated place for the 2010 census, and it had 144 residents at the 2020 census across 2.03 square miles.

Norwood Township, which surrounds the community, contains the southern portion of Fisherman's Island State Park on the Lake Michigan shore.

Norwood uses the Charlevoix ZIP Code 49720, and US 31 runs just east of the community; its children attend Charlevoix Public Schools.

Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Jay Norwood Darling, better known as Ding Darling, a founder of the National Wildlife Federation, was born in Norwood.