Town file
Mont Vernon, New Hampshire
Mont Vernon, New Hampshire (Hillsborough County, New Hampshire) is the town in one episode of Small Town Murder, the comedy true-crime podcast: episode 635, "The Murder And The Miracle" (2 October 2025). Mont Vernon is a small town in Hillsborough County, southern New Hampshire, about an hour and a quarter from Boston.
- Town
- Mont Vernon
- County
- Hillsborough County
- State
- New Hampshire
- Country
- USA
- Episodes
- 635
- Approximate location
- 42.909, -71.694
Episode 635 / 2 October 2025 / 177 min / full
The Murder And The Miracle
"We are going to Mont Vernon, New Hampshire, down in southern New Hampshire, in commuter range to Boston; this is in Hillsborough County." about 0:05:16
The case: Murder of Kimberly Cates and attack on Jamie Cates (October 4, 2009). Read the case file.
The figures, as told in 2025
- Population
- 2,580
- Median age
- 44 and a half
- Median household income
- $134,432 a year
- Median home value
- $535,700
- Cost of living
- 110
- Religious
- 43.5%
- Property crime
- ▼ about one third
- Violent crime
- ▼ less than half
- Murders in town
- one since 1840
History, in brief
- Named for Mount Vernon in Virginia after George Washington, but spelt without the U from the start. about 0:06:33
- The spelling without a U appears in the town charter in 1803. about 0:06:41
- Local hotel owner George Kitteridge persuaded the US Post Office to add the U in the late 1800s to boost business. about 0:06:47
- After Kitteridge died the U was taken out again. about 0:07:04
- The town was originally settled for agriculture. about 0:07:22
- The farms were hit hard after the Civil War when railroads opened up better farming land in the Midwest. about 0:07:25
- The population peaked in 1870 and declined for decades before rising again in the last thirty years. about 0:07:36
- It became a tourist town after the farms dried up and is now a suburban commuter community. about 0:07:49
The reviews read out
3 stars
"Very small and quiet with barely a town centre and no businesses, but the community gathers often and the elementary school is good; you have to go to the next town for stores and high school."about 0:08:10
4 stars
"Besides once a year maybe, there is very little crime here."about 0:09:00
3 stars
"I don't mind where I live and overall it's wonderful, but it can be a little too small at times."about 0:09:54
3 stars
"A few abandoned or foreclosed properties have cleared up in recent years, with new apartment buildings going up; the only really poor part is the trailer park near the dump."about 0:10:17
Nearest Small Town Murder towns
- Hooksett, New Hampshire18 miles
- Ashburnham, Massachusetts21 miles
- Groton, Massachusetts22 miles
- Salem, New Hampshire25 miles
- Deerfield, New Hampshire27 miles
- Fremont, New Hampshire30 miles
Everything here is as told in the episode, on the date it went out; figures and places may have changed since. Endings are covered: open an episode and use the spoiler switch to read them.