Vernon
Vernon is a town in Windham County, Vermont, in the United States. The population was 2,192 at the 2020 census. Vernon is the site of the now-defunct Vermont Yankee, the state of Vermont's only nuclear power plant, which closed in December 2014.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 2,190 residents
- Description: town in Windham County, Vermont, United States
- Also known as: “Hinsdale”, “Skwa-ga-nak”, “Squa-hee-gan”, “Squakheag”, “Squo-higgan”, “Vernon, Vermont”, and “Vernon, VT”
- Postal code: 05354
Places of Interest
Highlights include Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant.
Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant
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Vermont Yankee was an electricity generating nuclear power plant, located in the town of Vernon, Vermont, in the northeastern United States. It generated 620 megawatts of electricity at full power.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hinsdale and Ashuelot.
Hinsdale
Town
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Hinsdale is a town in Cheshire County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 3,948 at the 2020 census. Hinsdale is home to part of Pisgah State Park in the northeast, and part of Wantastiquet Mountain State Forest in the northwest. Hinsdale is situated 2½ miles northeast of Vernon.
Ashuelot
Hamlet
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Ashuelot is an unincorporated community in the town of Winchester near the southwestern corner of New Hampshire, United States. The village is named after the Ashuelot River. Ashuelot is situated 4½ miles east of Vernon.
Guilford
Village
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Guilford is a town in Windham County, Vermont, United States. The town was named for Francis North, 1st Earl of Guilford. The population was 2,120 at the 2020 census. Guilford is situated 5 miles northwest of Vernon.
Vernon
- Categories: New England town and locality
- Location: Town of Vernon, Windham, Vermont, New England, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.76205° or 42° 45′ 43″ northLongitude
-72.51387° or 72° 30′ 50″ westPopulation
2,190Elevation
262 feet (80 metres)Open location code
87J9QF6P+RFOpenStreetMap ID
node 158862184OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
5242285Wikidata ID
Q2305724
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Vernon” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فيرنون”
- Armenian: “Վերնոն”
- Catalan: “Vernon”
- Chechen: “Вернон”
- Chinese: “弗農”
- Dutch: “Vernon”
- French: “Vernon”
- German: “Vernon”
- Haitian: “Vernon, Vermont”
- Haitian: “Vernon”
- Hungarian: “Vernon”
- Irish: “Vernon”
- Italian: “Vernon”
- Japanese: “ヴァーノン”
- Japanese: “バーノン”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vernon”
- Norwegian: “Vernon”
- Persian: “ورنن”
- Polish: “Vernon”
- South Azerbaijani: “ورنون، ورمونت”
- Spanish: “Vernon (Vermont)”
- Spanish: “Vernon”
- Swedish: “Vernon, Vermont”
- Swedish: “Vernon”
- Tatar: “Вернон”
- Turkish: “Vernon”
- Ukrainian: “Вернон”
- Uzbek: “Vernon”
- Uzbek: “Вернон”
- Volapük: “Vernon”
- Welsh: “Vernon, Vermont”
- Welsh: “Vernon”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Vernon”. Photo: Jared and Corin, CC BY-SA 2.0.