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Vineland, Alabama

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Dixons Mill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36784. It stands on Little Creek. The Survey maps it on the Surginer quadrangle. It stands 148 feet above sea level.

Vineland within Marengo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

86 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Vineland between 1994 and 2020, burning about 654 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Debris and open burning27
Recreation and ceremony10
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking3
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Other causes1

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
30 September 1994Recreation and ceremony15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160916-10
30 August 2011Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionOAK GROVE ST, AL
3 August 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 2007Naturalunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marengo County

Storms near this place

2 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vineland in 2 storm reports between 2020 and 2024: 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2024Thunderstorm WindVineland-Several trees were blown down around Vineland.
April 2020Tornado (EF1)Vineland-National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in southeast Marengo County and determined that it was consistent with an EF1 tornado, with maximum winds near 100 mph.||A tornado formed along State Route 25 about two miles southwest of the Moores Valley community in extreme southeast Marengo County. The tornado tracked northeast, causing significant tree damage at Friendship Baptist Church, along County Road 56, County Road 55, and Moores Valley Road. The damage path quickly grew to a width of 1000 yards as it crossed into Wilcox County.

Every storm recorded in Marengo 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
Moores Valley2.3 miles10
Pope2.6 miles9
Ellison (historical)2.8 miles10
Surginer3.0 miles10
Hampden3.6 miles10
Clayhill5.0 miles10
Magnolia6.9 miles9
Dixons Mills7.0 miles10

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 VinelandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7932433The 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 128461. 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.