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Vernon
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city in Lamar County, Alabama, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Alabama
- County
- Lamar
- Total
- 5.89 sq mi (15.26 km )
- Land
- 5.89 sq mi (15.26 km )
- Water
- 0 sq mi (0.00 km )
- Elevation
- 364 ft (111 m)
- Density
- 326.0/sq mi (125.85/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( Central (CST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 (CDT)
- Area codes
- 205, 659
- Fips code
- 01-78480
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Encyclopedic overview
Vernon is a city in Lamar County, Alabama, United States. The city is the county seat of Lamar County, and previously served as the seat of its two predecessors, Jones County (not to be confused with Covington County), which briefly existed in 1867, and for Sanford County from 1868 until it was renamed Lamar in 1877. It incorporated in 1870. As of the 2020 census, Vernon had a population of 1,921.
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vernon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.