As this happened, the town itself began to dwindle (down to a population of only 300 in 1907), and by 1918 so few people were left in Vernon and the nearby area that the post office closed its doors.

[2] Tunnel Camp,[3] located two miles north of Vernon, was created 1927 to build a mill and to dig a tunnel to the shafts of the older mines in the Seven Troughs area.

This spelled the end of Vernon as a town, and the last residents moved on shortly thereafter.

[1][5] To reach the site of Vernon today you can take the two-laned paved road leading out to the Eagle-Pitcher diatomaceous earth mine (look for signs indicating this) 14 miles from Lovelock towards Vernon.

The site itself is easily recognizable by the remains of the old stone jail (heavily vandalized), some depressions from old building foundation locations, and wood debris scattered about in the sagebrush.