Vinegar Bend, Alabama
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Fruitdale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36584. It stands on Pine Barren Creek. The Survey maps it on the Vinegar Bend quadrangle. 178 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 161 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresVinegar Bend fell from 192 to 178 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 | 192 | |
| 2020 | 178 | -14 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 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 Hattiesburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Hattiesburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1974 USGS Vinegar Bend quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Citronelle quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Hattiesburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
92 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Vinegar Bend between 1994 and 2019, burning about 2,979 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 35 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 | 35 |
| Debris and open burning | 29 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 18 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190906-12 |
| 5 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190905-2 |
| 19 September 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 17 September 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | 4.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190917-14 |
| 17 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 31 August 1995 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 31 August 1995 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
8 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vinegar Bend in 8 storm reports between 2000 and 2015: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vinegar Bend | $15,000 | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vinegar Bend | $8,000 | Several trees were blown down near Vinegar Bend by high winds from a thunderstorm. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vinegar Bend | $5,000 | Scattered tree limbs down and one tree down due to thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| October 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vinegar Bend | $5,000 | High thunderstorm winds blew down trees and power lines near the community. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vinegar Bend | $5,000 | A thunderstorm blew down trees in the vicinity. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vinegar Bend | $3,000 | Winds estimated at 60 mph blew several trees down. |
| April 2015 | Hail | Vinegar Bend | - | no account filed |
| March 2001 | Hail | Vinegar Bend | - | no account filed |
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 Vinegar Bend | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1274948 | 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 153854. 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.




