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Vredenburgh, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Vredenburgh census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36481. The Survey maps it on the Vredenburgh quadrangle. 222 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 151 feet above sea level.

Vredenburgh within Monroe County

Population over time

2 figures

Vredenburgh fell from 312 to 222 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
2010312
2020222-90 (-29%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

51 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Vredenburgh between 1995 and 2020, burning about 369 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 4 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 burning15
Equipment and vehicle use11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Natural5
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1
Fireworks1

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
21 September 2000Natural2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2019Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190912-14
31 August 1999Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 1997Natural3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 August 2000Smokingunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 August 2000Debris and open burning8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 August 2007Natural1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
9 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

6 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vredenburgh in 6 storm reports between 2007 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
April 2007Tornado (EF1)Vredenburgh$750,000A few minutes after the huge microburst occurred, a tornado touched down just southwest of County Road 56 south of Vredenburgh. Most of the structural damage occurred north of County Road 56. A very old home was pushed from its blocks and roof was lifted off. The tornado then moved northeast and damaged a church that was located near the home. Many trees were blown down in this area. Another church a few hundred yards to the northeast of the first church had part of the back of the building blown off. A convergence pattern was observed in the fallen trees from southwest of County Road 56 to northeast of the home. The tornado either dissipated or went back into the clouds near the second church. The tornado wind speed was estimated at 105 mph. No injuries were reported. People who lived only a short distance away said they never heard or observed the tornado. The tornado ended near where a huge microburst had occurred a few minutes earlier.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindVredenburgh-In addition to the tornado, swaths of significant straight line wind|damage were surveyed in Monroe County Alabama, including in the|community of Vredenburgh where a large pine tree destroyed a|residence (estimated 90 mph), near Buena Vista and Rikard`s Mill|where damaging winds uprooted and snapped trees (90 mph), along a|private camp site east of State Highway 265 where numerous trees|were snapped (100-110 mph), and near the community of Beatrice where|additional trees were downed (90 mph).
August 2022Flash FloodVredenburgh-Flooding reported near the community of Vredenburgh.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindVredenburgh-High winds downed approximately 20 trees and caused minor damage to a mobile home.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindVredenburgh-A severe thunderstorm downed trees in the community of Vredenburgh.
August 2010Flash FloodVredenburgh-Heavy rain from thunderstorms producing flooding in area roadways. Several roadways had 2 to 3 inches of water flowing across them.

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Hybart3.2 miles7
Tinela4.2 miles7
Buena Vista4.6 miles7
Chestnut5.0 miles7
Natchez7.7 miles7
River Ridge7.9 miles7
Nadawah8.0 miles7
Beatrice9.0 miles9

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 VredenburghAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q65712The 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 128479. 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.