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Mount Vernon

Mount Vernon is the county seat of Knox County, . It has a small, cute downtown, and is home to Mount Vernon Nazarene University and the manufacturer Ariel.
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  • Type: Town with 15,900 residents
  • Description: city in Knox County, Ohio, United States
  • Also known as: “Mount Vernon, OH”, “Mount Vernon, Ohio”, “Mt Vernon”, “Mt. Vernon”, and “Mt. Vernon, Ohio”
  • Postal code: 43050

Places of Interest

Highlights include Knox County Courthouse and Mount Vernon High School.

Courthouse
Photo: Mark Spearman, CC BY 2.0.
The is a historic building located on High Street in Mount Vernon, , . It was built in 1855 in the Greek Revival style of architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

School
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is a public four-year high school located in Mount Vernon, Ohio, United States. It is the only high school in the Mount Vernon City Schools district.

School
was a private Christian boarding high school located in Mount Vernon, Ohio. The school, founded in 1893, was the oldest operating boarding academy of the Seventh-day Adventist Church until its closing in 2015.

Mount Vernon

Latitude
40.3934° or 40° 23′ 36″ north
Longitude
-82.4857° or 82° 29′ 9″ west
Population
15,900
Elevation
1,001 feet (305 metres)
Open location code
86GV9GV7+9P
Open­Street­Map ID
node 154380089
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
5163799
Wiki­data ID
Q998575
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Mount Vernon” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ماونت فرنون”
  • Basque: “Mount Vernon”
  • Bengali: “মাউন্ট ভার্নন”
  • Catalan: “Mount Vernon”
  • Cebuano: “Mount Vernon (kapital sa kondado sa Estados Unidos, Ohio)”
  • Cebuano: “Mount Vernon”
  • Chechen: “Маунт-Вернон”
  • Chinese: “Mount Vernon”
  • Chinese: “芒特弗农”
  • Danish: “Mount Vernon”
  • Dutch: “Mount Vernon”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ماونت فرنون”
  • French: “Mount Vernon”
  • German: “Mount Vernon”
  • Gilaki: “مأؤنت ورنن”
  • Haitian: “Mount Vernon, Ohio”
  • Haitian: “Mount Vernon”
  • Hebrew: “מאונט ורנון (אוהיו)”
  • Hungarian: “Mount Vernon”
  • Irish: “Mount Vernon”
  • Italian: “Mount Vernon”
  • Japanese: “マウント・ヴァーノン”
  • Japanese: “マウント・バーノン”
  • Japanese: “マウントヴァーノン”
  • Japanese: “マウントバーノン”
  • Kazakh: “Mawnt Vernon”
  • Kazakh: “Маунт Вернон”
  • Kazakh: “ماۋنت ۆەرنون”
  • Kirghiz: “Маунт Вернон”
  • Korean: “마운트 버넌”
  • Korean: “마운트버넌”
  • Ladin: “Mount Vernon”
  • Malagasy: “Mount Vernon, Ohio”
  • Malagasy: “Mount Vernon”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Mount Vernon”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mount Vernon”
  • Persian: “موونت ورنون، اوهایو”
  • Persian: “موونت ورنون”
  • Polish: “Mount Vernon”
  • Portuguese: “Mount Vernon”
  • Russian: “Маунт-Вернон”
  • Serbian: “Маунт Вернон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Mount Vernon, Ohio”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Mount Vernon”
  • Slovenian: “Mount Vernon”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مونت ورنون، اوهایو”
  • Spanish: “Mount Vernon (Ohio)”
  • Spanish: “Mount Vernon”
  • Swedish: “Mount Vernon, Ohio”
  • Swedish: “Mount Vernon”
  • Tatar: “Маунт-Вернон (Огайо)”
  • Tatar: “Маунт-Вернон”
  • Turkish: “Mount Vernon, Ohio”
  • Turkish: “Mount Vernon”
  • Ukrainian: “Маунт-Вернон”
  • Urdu: “ماؤنٹ ورنن، اوہائیو”
  • Urdu: “ماؤنٹ ورنن”
  • Uzbek: “Mount Vernon”
  • Uzbek: “Моунт Вернон”
  • Vietnamese: “Mount Vernon, Ohio”
  • Vietnamese: “Mount Vernon”
  • Volapük: “Mount Vernon”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Mount Vernon, Ohio”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Mount Vernon”
  • Welsh: “Mount Vernon, Ohio”
  • Welsh: “Mount 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 Wikivoyage page “Mount Vernon”. Photo: Mark Spearman, CC BY 2.0.