Vina, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Vina census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35593. It stands on Lutts Mill Branch. The Survey maps it on the Halltown quadrangle. 325 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 682 feet above sea level.

Vina within Franklin County

Population over time

2 figures

Vina fell from 358 to 325 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

Year	People	Change
2010	358
2020	325	-33 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1936 USGS Halltown quadrangle1:24000
1950 USGS Halltown quadrangle1:24000
1951 USGS Halltown quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Tupelo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Tupelo quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Tupelo quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Tupelo quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

150 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 150 fires within 5 miles of Vina between 1995 and 2020, burning about 2,351 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 118 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
Arson/incendiarism	118
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Debris and open burning	10
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Natural	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 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160908-4
6 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2000	Natural	30 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	8.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	66 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Vina: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

19 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vina in 19 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 11 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 tornado, 1 lightning. 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
February 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Vina	$75,000	Very large trees were uprooted or snapped. A garage collapsed due to the wind and uprooting of a very large root bulb and adjacent home was damaged due to trees falling onto the home. A car was smashed by a tree. Time estimated by radar.
February 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Vina	$25,000	A roof of a home was lifted off and very large trees were uprooted along Jacksontwon Road. Time estimated by radar.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Vina	$14,000	Multiple tree were blown down.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Vina	$14,000	Multiple trees were blown down in Vina.
February 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Vina	$10,000	Worldview 3 imagery indicated numerous hardwood trees were uprooted. Time estimated by radar.
April 2011	Lightning	Vina	$10,000	Lightning struck a car and set it on fire near the town of Vina.
February 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Vina	$5,000	Large trees were uprooted and snapped along Highway 172 just west of Cedar Tree Lane. Time estimated by radar.
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Vina	$5,000	Widespread trees were knocked down along CR 23 south of Vina.
November 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Vina	$5,000	Roofs of two homes were heavily damaged by thunderstorm winds.
February 1997	Hail	Vina	$2,000	no account filed
April 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Vina	$1,000	A tree was knocked down on Highway 19 in the Vina area.
February 2025	Tornado (EF1)	Vina	-	An EF-1 tornado touched down just west of Vina on Shottsville Road as identified on Worldview-3 satellite imagery. It then traveled northeastward causing major damage to the metal roof on a residence on Highway 42 along with a large uprooted tree falling onto the garage. The tornado continued northeast across Highway 172 where more tree damage was observed by Emergency Management before also damaging a chicken house roof off of Highway 32 and minor shingle damage to the roof of a home. The track then continued northeast through mainly wooded areas where Worldview-3 imagery indicated several areas of tree damage along the path before crossing Highway 37 and lifting just west of Bear Creek.
May 2025	Hail	Vina	-	Two inch in diameter hail was reported via social media at this location.
March 2017	Hail	Vina	-	Quarter sized hail was reported at the intersection of CR 23 and Alabama Highway 19 in Vina.
December 2016	Tornado (EF0)	Vina	-	A survey team from the National Weather Service and Franklin County Emergency Management conducted a ground survey of damage in Vina. An initially very weak and narrow tornado touched down in the Vina community along Highway 19 just west of Maple Street. Here some limbs were snapped off of a stand of trees on the south side of the road. Additional very minor tree damage was noted south of Highway 19. A tree was uprooted near a home along Cedar street south of Highway 19. Damage was once again noted on the south and west side of the Vina High School. On the south side, a large tree was snapped and a home sustained roof damage. The athletic fields sustained damage to the fences and a baseball dugout was destroyed. Several large unanchored objects here were thrown large distances. The school sustained roof damage in several locations including uplift of the roof on the main building. Windows were also blown out here by the wind with other damage due to the flying debris. Awnings were also destroyed connecting different portions of the school. The tornado was rated EF-0 here with maximum winds of 80 mph due to the damage to the roof in several different locations. The tornado lifted up and blew away shingles on another building here before lifting in the wooded area east-northeast of the school.
March 2012	Hail	Vina	-	Hail up to nickel size was reported in Vina.
March 2011	Hail	Vina	-	Nickel sized hail was reported.
November 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Vina	-	A few power lines and two power poles were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Vina	-	Several trees blown down due to thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
Old Burleson	2.6 miles	11
Atwood	3.5 miles	12
Halltown	5.3 miles	11
Burntout	5.5 miles	11
Red Bay	6.2 miles	12
Piney Bend	6.5 miles	12
Jordans Mill	6.5 miles	11
Seven Pines	6.7 miles	11

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 Vina	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q67235	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 153851. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.