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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.

Vinegar Bend within Washington County

Population over time

2 figures

Vinegar 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.

YearPeople Change
2010192
2020178-14 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Fires near this place

92 since 1994

Regional 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/incendiarism35
Debris and open burning29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Recreation and ceremony6
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
Natural1

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
8 September 2006Debris and open burning20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190906-12
5 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190905-2
19 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2019Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190917-14
17 September 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 1995Debris and open burning30 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 1995Debris and open burning20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

8 since 2000

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 2008Thunderstorm WindVinegar Bend$15,000no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindVinegar Bend$8,000Several trees were blown down near Vinegar Bend by high winds from a thunderstorm.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindVinegar Bend$5,000Scattered tree limbs down and one tree down due to thunderstorm wind gusts.
October 2001Thunderstorm WindVinegar Bend$5,000High thunderstorm winds blew down trees and power lines near the community.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindVinegar Bend$5,000A thunderstorm blew down trees in the vicinity.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindVinegar Bend$3,000Winds estimated at 60 mph blew several trees down.
April 2015HailVinegar Bend-no account filed
March 2001HailVinegar Bend-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Four Point2.8 miles11
Escatawpa2.9 miles12
Deer Park3.6 miles15
Burbank4.0 miles14
Epworth4.2 miles12
Fruitdale6.4 miles12
Walley6.9 miles14
Uniform8.3 miles14

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 BendAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1274948The 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.