BlockVilula, Alabama
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Hamburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36756. The Survey maps it on the Marion South quadrangle. It stands 187 feet above sea level.
On record in Vilula
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record
- The Birds' Nest, U.S. Route 43, Vilulafederal building survey, 10 photographs
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Marion South quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Demopolis quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Demopolis quadrangle1:100000
Photographs
1 photograph,Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
107 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 107 fires within 5 miles of Vilula between 1994 and 2020, burning about 583 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 8 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 | 44 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 21 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 11 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Smoking | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20200908-1 |
| 8 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 1995 | Smoking | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 2006 | Natural | 129 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.5 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 September 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vilula in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2022: 2 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2011 | Tornado (EF2) | Vilula | $38,000 | A tornado touched down 2.7 miles north of Hamburg, just west of County Road 45. The tornado moved northeast where it snapped or uprooted several trees. As the tornado crossed County Road 45, it strenghtend to and EF-2 rating, with maximum winds of 115 mph. A barn sustained roof damage and a significant number of trees were snapped or uprooted. The tornado lifted about 0.5 miles west of County Road 45. |
| March 2022 | Tornado (EF2) | Vilula | - | National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in central Perry County and determined that it was consistent with an EF2 tornado, with maximum winds near 115 mph. The tornado began along Dr JJ Howard Road where a path of trees were snapped and uprooted either side of farmland. Additional trees were snapped and uprooted along Albert Turner Sr Memorial Highway. The most significant damage occurred along Fikes Ferry Road where a large swath of pine trees were snapped, pushing the rating to EF2. The tornado continued northeastward, lifting before reaching Highway 14 just north of Radford. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vilula | - | Phone lines were downed along County Road 45, near Vivula. |
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.
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.
| Wikipedia article on Vilula | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q21196651 | 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 128457. 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.