Norton
Norton is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia, located in the far western tip of the state and surrounded by Wise County, Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 3,687, making it the least populous city in Virginia.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 3,960 residents
- Description: independent city in Virginia, United States
- Also known as: “Norton, VA”, “Norton, Virginia”, “Prince’s Flats”, and “Princes Flats”
- Postal code: 24273
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hotel Norton and John I. Burton High School.
Hotel Norton
Building
Photo: Betcantrell, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hotel Norton is a historic hotel building located in Norton, Virginia. It was built in 1921, and is a six-story Colonial Revival style building consisting of a cut sandstone base, brick middle, and a deep stone and wood entablature.
John I. Burton High School
School
John Ira Burton High School is a high school located in the City of Norton, Virginia, United States. A part of Norton City Schools, it has an enrollment of approximately 320 students.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dorchester and Dooley.
Dorchester
Locality
Dorchester is an unincorporated community and coal town located in Wise County, Virginia, United States.
Dooley
Locality
Dooley is an unincorporated community and coal town located in Wise County, Virginia, United States. It was also known as Eolia.
Needmore
Hamlet
Needmore is an unincorporated community and coal town located in Wise County, Virginia, United States. Needmore is situated 1½ miles north of Norton.
Norton
- Categories: independent city in the United States and locality
- Location: Norton, Virginia, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
36.93369° or 36° 56′ 1″ northLongitude
-82.6299° or 82° 37′ 48″ westPopulation
3,960Elevation
2,136 feet (651 metres)United Nations Location Code
US NOGOpen location code
868VW9MC+F2OpenStreetMap ID
node 154014285OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Norton” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نورتون”
- Basque: “Norton city konderria”
- Bavarian: “Norton City”
- Bavarian: “Norton, Virginia”
- Cebuano: “Norton”
- Chechen: “Нортон”
- Chinese: “诺顿”
- Chinese: “諾頓”
- Dutch: “Norton”
- Finnish: “Norton”
- French: “Norton”
- German: “Norton”
- Gilaki: “نؤرتن”
- Haitian: “Norton, Vijini”
- Haitian: “Norton”
- Irish: “Norton”
- Italian: “Norton”
- Japanese: “ノートン”
- Ladin: “Norton”
- Low German: “Norton”
- Malagasy: “Norton, Virginia”
- Malagasy: “Norton”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Norton”
- Norwegian: “Norton”
- Persian: “نورتون، ویرجینیا”
- Persian: “نورتون”
- Polish: “Norton”
- Portuguese: “Norton”
- Russian: “Нортон”
- Serbian: “Нортон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Norton, Virginia”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Norton”
- South Azerbaijani: “نورتون، ویرجینیا”
- Spanish: “Norton (Virginia)”
- Spanish: “Norton”
- Swedish: “Norton, Virginia”
- Swedish: “Norton”
- Talysh: “Norton”
- Tatar: “Нортон (Вирджиния)”
- Tatar: “Нортон”
- Ukrainian: “Нортон”
- Urdu: “نورٹن، ورجینیا”
- Urdu: “نورٹن”
- Vietnamese: “Norton, Virginia”
- Vietnamese: “Norton”
- Volapük: “Norton”
- Waray (Philippines): “Norton, Virginia”
- Waray (Philippines): “Norton”
- Welsh: “Norton”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
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