Welcome to Benton ...

So far, we found very little information about Benton. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Benton to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Benton - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Benton, please Contact Us.

While we don't have the exact location of Benton , we believe that it would have been located within present day Beaver County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Benton, you might consider that their post office opened in 1886.

Time Zone: The area where Benton was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Benton would have been located in the (580) area code.

Communities Also Named Benton ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 40 communities that are also named Benton - they are located in Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois (2), Indiana, Iowa, Kansas (2), Kentucky (3), Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri (2), Montana, Nebraska, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New York, Newfoundland and Labrador, Ohio (5), Pennsylvania (2), Tennessee (2), Texas and Wisconsin.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Benton.

Adding Benton to Our Gazetteer ...

The earliest source we've referenced which mentioned Benton was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

From that list, the Benton post office opened in 1886.

We also found Benton in the book titled Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Benton.

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for State of Oklahoma: https://www.ok.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>	We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Benton, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>	If you're interested in how the shape of Oklahoma's counties, including Beaver, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/