VERNON, a city of northern Texas, U.S.A., on the Pease river, the county seat of Wilbarger county. The population was 5,142 in 1920 (95% native white) and was 9,137 in 1930 by the Federal census. It is the shipping point for a wide region (pro ducing cotton, wheat, alfalfa and cattle), and for oil-wells with a daily production (1928) of 35,000 barrels. Vernon was settled about 188o, incorporated in 1901, and chartered as a city in