Skogn Municipality

Skogn Municipality
Skogn kommune
View of the area around the Skogn Station (c. 1920)
View of the area around the Skogn Station (c. 1920)
Nord-Trøndelag within Norway
Nord-Trøndelag within Norway
Skogn within Nord-Trøndelag
Skogn within Nord-Trøndelag
Coordinates: 63°42′03″N 11°11′12″E / 63.70083°N 11.18667°E / 63.70083; 11.18667
CountryNorway
CountyNord-Trøndelag
DistrictInnherred
Established1 Jan 1838
 • Created asFormannskapsdistrikt
Disestablished1 Jan 1962
 • Succeeded byLevanger Municipality
Administrative centreSkogn
Area
 (upon dissolution)
 • Total
340 km2 (130 sq mi)
Population
 (1962)
 • Total
4,756
 • Density14/km2 (36/sq mi)
DemonymSkogning[1]
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
ISO 3166 codeNO-1719[2]

Skogn is a former municipality in the old Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway. The 340-square-kilometre (130 sq mi) municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1962. The municipality was located to the south and southwest of the town of Levanger in what is now Levanger municipality in Trøndelag county. The administrative centre was the village of Skogn.[3]

  1. ^ "Navn på steder og personer: Innbyggjarnamn" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet.
  2. ^ Bolstad, Erik; Thorsnæs, Geir, eds. (26 January 2023). "Kommunenummer". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget.
  3. ^ Thorsnæs, Geir, ed. (26 March 2018). "Skogn – tidligere kommune". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 31 March 2018.