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The First State Bank

Vernon, TX · failed July 16, 1973 · FDIC certificate 11170

The First State Bank of Vernon, TX failed on July 16, 1973. It opened in 1907, 66 years before. At its last report before that it held $16.2 million in assets and $14.8 million in deposits. The FDIC's list gives no estimate of the loss: the FDIC says its figures are not complete for its own cases before 1986 or for FSLIC cases from 1934 to 1988.

Assets at the end$16.2 millionlast report before July 16, 1973
Deposits at the end$14.8 million
Estimated loss to the fundnot givenFDIC
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Also ended in 1973

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Source: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, BankFind Suite API. Source values and institutional identifiers are retained; formatting and normalization by Underfolio. No FDIC endorsement is implied. How these numbers are made · Report a data issue.