Norman, California

39°24′29″N 122°11′31″W

Norman
Unincorporated community
Solar eclipse of January 1, 1889, from Norman, CA
Solar eclipse of January 1, 1889, from Norman, CA
Norman is located in California
Norman
Norman
Location in California
Norman is located in the United States
Norman
Norman
Norman (the United States)
Coordinates: 39°24′29″N 122°11′31″W
CountryUnited States
StateCalifornia
CountyGlenn County
Elevation
[1]
92 ft (28 m)

Norman is an archaic placename in Glenn County, California.[1] It was a railroad stop along the Southern Pacific Railroad ("Woodland Line")[2] 8 miles (13 km) south of Willows,[3] at an elevation of 92 feet (28 m).[1]

History

A post office operated at Norman from 1870 to 1914, with a closure from 1889 to 1890.[3] The town post office was known as Belvidere for two months in 1879 before it was renamed Norman, after a rancher named Norman Rideout.[4][5] The original Norman railroad depot was destroyed in a fire in 1886.[6] The settlement was in the path of the solar eclipse of 1 January 1889.[7] Norman was a farming community in the 19th century.[8][9] California State Senator John Boggs had a ranch near Norman[10] where he held indentures for 13 native California indigenous people.[11] Norman lay between Logandale and Colusa Junction, and still appeared on maps as of 1939.[12]

Norman in 1904

Climate

According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Norman has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate, abbreviated "Csa" on climate maps.[13]

References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Norman, California
  2. "Maxwell Quad 1904 - California Topographic Maps - Perry-Castañeda Map Collection - UT Library Online". maps.lib.utexas.edu. Retrieved October 24, 2023.
  3. Durham, David L. (1998). California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State. Clovis, Calif.: Word Dancer Press. p. 285. ISBN 1-884995-14-4.
  4. "History & Happenings - GLENN COUNTY - Belvidere > Norman". historyandhappenings.squarespace.com. Retrieved October 24, 2023.
  5. "Record Group 28: Records of the Post Office DepartmentSeries: Reports of Site Locations - California: Glenn - Imperial - NAID: 68225674".
  6. "Brief notes". The Record-Union. November 25, 1886. p. 3. Retrieved October 24, 2023.
  7. "The Solar Eclipse". The Sacramento Bee. December 22, 1888. p. 2. Retrieved October 24, 2023.
  8. "For the farmer". The Sacramento Bee. November 15, 1890. p. 7. Retrieved October 24, 2023.
  9. "Norman (Colusa County)". The Marysville Appeal. March 27, 1883. p. 3. Retrieved October 24, 2023.
  10. "Swallowed Strychnine". The San Francisco Examiner. August 8, 1897. p. 32. Retrieved October 24, 2023.
  11. Magliari, Michael F. (2012). "Free State Slavery: Bound Indian Labor and Slave Trafficking in California's Sacramento Valley, 1850–1864". Pacific Historical Review. 81 (2): 155–192. doi:10.1525/phr.2012.81.2.155. ISSN 0030-8684. JSTOR 10.1525/phr.2012.81.2.155.
  12. "Metsker's map of Glenn County, California". archives.csuchico.edu. Retrieved October 24, 2023.
  13. Climate Summary for Norman, California


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