Incorporated in 2005 as the "Town of Vernon" in McIntosh County, Oklahoma, United States.

It was named for Bishop William Tecumseh Vernon of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.

[3] The Fort Smith and Western Railway, which opened in 1899 and closed in 1939, operated through the town.

Other towns served included Crowder, Okemah, Boley, Prague, Vernon, Indianola and Meridian.

She retired around 1991, and several temporary workers kept it open for several months, until it was finally closed when the postal service consolidated all workers under the civil service dept and began eliminating and consolidating small town post offices across the state.