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Vinegar Bend is an unincorporated census-designated place in Washington County, Alabama, United States. Vinegar Bend is 15 miles (24 km) south-southwest of Chatom. As of the 2010 census, its population was 192. Vinegar Bend had a post office with ZIP code 36584 until it was closed July 1, 2010. When the bridge on the “main” road into Vinegar Bend was closed for repairs, the USPS closed the post office for good.

Vinegar Bend CDP overview:
Name:	Vinegar Bend CDP
LSAD Code:	57
LSAD Description:	CDP (suffix)
State:	Alabama
County:	Washington County
Elevation:	161 ft (49 m)
Total Area:	9.47 sq mi (24.54 km²)
Land Area:	9.45 sq mi (24.48 km²)
Water Area:	0.02 sq mi (0.05 km²)
Total Population:	178
Population Density:	18.83/sq mi (7.27/km²)
ZIP code:	36584
Area code:	251
FIPS code:	0179032
GNISfeature ID:	153854

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History

There are a number of stories about how Vinegar Bend got its name. One is that it received its name when a container holding vinegar burst at the freight station near the river’s bend. It has frequently been noted on lists of unusual place names.

Lucius Beebe visited Vinegar Bend in the 1940s and wrote “Vinegar Bend itself is a communal last chapter. Once at the turn of the century, a local ancient told us, it had been a hustling township boasting a huge planing mill, numerous stores and residences and a forty-two-room-hotel. The railroad had owned half a dozen engines, each one smokier and more pyrotechnic than the next, and life had gone on at a giddy pace.”