Historic courthouses have taken me to some teensy places, including some that don’t even exist on a map. Hamlets like Rome, Wilmington, and Fredonia -all thriving county seats two hundred years ago- have long since become bypassed, eclipsed, and largely forgotten. But some tiny county seats remain home to active courthouses, and the smallest of all is the town of Vernon in Jennings County. Only 236 people live there as of the 2020 census.