Vangordon, Alabama

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Bay Minette census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36507. The Survey maps it on the Bay Minette South quadrangle.

Vangordon within Baldwin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

1941 USGS Bay Minette quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1943 USGS Bay Minette quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Pensacola quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Pensacola quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Pensacola quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Bay Minette South quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Bay Minette quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

279 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 279 fires within 5 miles of Vangordon between 1994 and 2020, burning about 3,422 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 104 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 burning	105
Arson/incendiarism	104
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	27
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Recreation and ceremony	11
Natural	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Smoking	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Fireworks	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
26 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 2007	Natural	25 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Baldwin 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Holly Hills	0.7 miles	13
Whitehouse Forks	2.6 miles	13
Pine Grove	3.3 miles	18
Stapleton	3.6 miles	18
Pine Haven	4.2 miles	18
Douglasville	5.2 miles	13
Steelwood	5.3 miles	18
D'Olive	5.6 miles	13

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 Q122569510

The 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 134736. 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.