Place:Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States

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NameNorfolk
Alt namesNorfolksource: Getty Vocabulary Program
TypeCounty
Coordinates42.167°N 71.25°W
Located inMassachusetts, United States     (1793 - )
See alsoSuffolk, Massachusetts, United StatesParent county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990)
Contained Places
Cemetery
Brookdale Cemetery
Center Cemetery
Elm Street Cemetery
Evergreen Cemetery
Milton Cemetery
Needham Cemetery
Old Parish Cemetery
Old Village Cemetery
Prospect Hill Cemetery
Walnut Hills Cemetery
Walnut Street Cemetery
Westwood Cemetery
Census-designated place
Millis-Clicquot
Former municipality
Dorchester ( 1793 - 1870 )
Roxbury ( 1793 - 1868 )
Inhabited place
Acorn Terrace
Adamsville
Anton ( - 2015 )
Ashcroft
Avon
Beaconsfield
Beechwood
Belchers Corner
Bellingham
Birds Hill
Braintree
Bridgewater
Brookline ( Nov 1705 - )
Camp Breezy Meadow
Camp Lincoln Hill
Camp Sayre
Campbells Station
Canton
Caryville
Cedar Hill
Cedar
Charles River Station
Charles River Village
City Mills
Clicquot
Cohasset
Coolidge Corner
Dedham Island
Dedham
Dover
East Foxboro
East Sharon
East Walpole
Ellis
Farm Street Station
Five Corners
Forbes Wharf
Forest Park
Foxborough
Foxvale
Franklin
Glenridge
Grantville
Harding
Highland Lake
Holbrook
Islington
Lincoln Heights
Maple Ridge
Medfield ( 1793 - )
Medway ( 1713 - )
Millis
Milton Hill
Milton Upper Mills
Milton
Montclair
Needham Junction
Needham ( 1711 - )
Norfolk Downs
Norfolk
North Cohasset
North Commons
North Foxboro
Norwood
Old Boat Point
Old Spain
Pine Grove
Plainville
Pondville
Ponkapoag
Post Island
Quincy Neck
Quincy ( 1625 - )
Randolph
Readville Manor
Reeds Corner
Rock Island
Rockville
Sharon
Sheldonville
South Commons
South Foxboro
South Walpole
Springdale
Stoughton Junction
Stoughton ( 1726 - )
Summer Heights
Wadsworth
Walpole Heights
Walpole
Wampum Corner
Wampum Rock
Wellesley
West Corners
West Foxboro
West Wapole
West Wrentham
Westbrook Village
Westwood ( 1897 - )
Weymouth ( 1622 - )
Wilkins Four Corners
Wrentham
Neighborhood
Dorchester ( 1793 - 1870 )
Roxbury ( 1793 - 1868 )
Populated place
West Medway
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Norfolk County is located in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. At the 2020 census, the population was 725,981. Its county seat is Dedham. It is the fourth most populous county in the United States whose county seat is neither a city nor a borough, and it is the second most populous county that has a county seat at a town. The county was named after the English county of the same name. Two towns, Cohasset and Brookline, are exclaves.

Norfolk County is included in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Norfolk County is the 24th highest-income county in the United States with a median household income of $107,361. It is the wealthiest county in Massachusetts. [1]

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Timeline

Date Event Source
1793 County formed Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1793 Court records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1793 Land records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1793 Probate records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1800 First census Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
1920 No significant boundary changes after this year Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990

Population History

source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
Census Year Population
1800 27,216
1810 31,245
1820 36,471
1830 41,972
1840 53,140
1850 78,892
1860 109,950
1870 89,443
1880 96,507
1890 118,950
1900 151,539
1910 187,506
1920 219,081
1930 299,426
1940 325,180
1950 392,308
1960 510,256
1970 605,051
1980 606,587
1990 616,087

Research Tips

External links

  • Outstanding guide to Norfolk County, Massachusetts family history and genealogy (FamilySearch Research Wiki). History, towns and cities, county histories, birth, marriage, and death records, deeds, wills, court records, divorce records, naturalizations, tax records, warnings out, maps, and societies.
  • Norfolk County GenWeb[2]


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