Vinegar Bend is an unincorporated census-designated place in Washington County, Alabama, United States.

One is that it received its name when a container holding vinegar burst at the freight station near the river's bend.

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.

The racial makeup of the CDP was 79.2% Black, 15.1% White, 2.6% Native American, 0.5% Asian and 2.6% from two or more races.