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North Vinemont, Alabama

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Vinemont census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35179. It stands on Lick Creek. The Survey maps it on the Eva quadrangle.

North Vinemont within Cullman County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

99 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of North Vinemont between 1997 and 2019, burning about 572 acres in total. None started naturally. 14 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Arson/incendiarism14
Equipment and vehicle use9
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 September 1999Smokingunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNER-20140924-002

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cullman County

Storms near this place

9 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Vinemont in 9 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2025Thunderstorm WindNorth Vinemont$2,000Trees were knocked down into the roadway blocking both lanes at 2553 CR 1371.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindNorth Vinemont$2,000Trees and power lines were knocked down at 435 CR 1391.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindNorth Vinemont$1,000A pine tree was reported down across the road at 2524 CR1371.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindNorth Vinemont$1,000A tree was reported down along county road 1386.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindNorth Vinemont-Trees were knocked down north of the airport in Vinemont.
March 2018Tornado (EF0)North Vinemont-A tornado continued from Morgan into Cullman County crossing CR 1375 and CR 1442 and lifted just south of the East Fork of Flint Creek. A few trees and branches were snapped along this path.
March 2018Tornado (EF0)North Vinemont-A tornado continued from Morgan into Cullman County crossing CR 1375 and CR 1442 and lifted just south of the East Fork of the Flint Creek. A few trees and branches were snapped along this path.
June 2011HailNorth Vinemont-Nickel sized hail was reported.
April 2009HailNorth Vinemont-Golf ball size hail fell at the Cullman Regional Airport.

Every storm recorded in Cullman County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Providence2.3 miles17
Longview2.6 miles20
Vinemont2.6 miles19
Pleasant Ridge2.7 miles17
Dyers Crossroads2.8 miles19
South Vinemont2.8 miles19
Centerville3.9 miles20
Enon4.1 miles17

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122593472The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 124018. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.