This Benton is located in Lowndes County and lies 1,389 miles [2,235.4 km]<1> to the southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lowndes County community of Benton.
Arkansas
Saline County
This Benton is located in Saline County and lies 1,523 miles [2,451 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Saline County community of Benton.
California
Mono County
This Benton is located in Mono County and lies 2,627 miles [4,227.7 km]<1> to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Mono County community of Benton.
Colorado
Otero County
This Benton is located in Otero County and lies 1,915 miles [3,081.9 km]<1> to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Otero County community of Benton.
Delaware
New Castle County
This Benton is located in New Castle County and lies 584 miles [939.9 km]<1> to the southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the New Castle County community of Benton.
Florida
Columbia County
This Benton is located in Columbia County and lies 1,341 miles [2,158.1 km]<1> to the southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Columbia County community of Benton.
Georgia
Floyd County
This Benton is located in Floyd County and lies 1,230 miles [1,979.5 km]<1> to the southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Floyd County community of Benton.
Illinois
Franklin County
This Benton is located in Franklin County and lies 1,219 miles [1,961.8 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Franklin County community of Benton.
Lake County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Benton [Lake County].
Indiana
Elkhart County
This Benton is located in Elkhart County and lies 954 miles [1,535.3 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Elkhart County community of Benton.
Iowa
Ringgold County
This Benton is located in Ringgold County and lies 1,384 miles [2,227.3 km]<1> to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Ringgold County community of Benton.
Kansas
Butler County
This Benton is located in Butler County and lies 1,607 miles [2,586.2 km]<1> to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Butler County community of Benton.
Phillips County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Benton [Phillips County].
Kentucky
Kenton County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Benton [Kenton County].
Marshall County
This Benton is located in Marshall County and lies 1,240 miles [1,995.6 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Marshall County community of Benton.
Muhlenberg County
We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Benton [Muhlenberg County].
Louisiana
Bossier Parish
This Benton is located in Bossier Parish and lies 1,658 miles [2,668.3 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bossier Parish community of Benton.
Maine
Kennebec County
This Benton is located in Kennebec County and lies 135 miles [217.3 km]<1> to the southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Kennebec County community of Benton.
Michigan
Washtenaw County
This Benton is located in Washtenaw County and lies 847 miles [1,363.1 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Washtenaw County community of Benton.
Minnesota
Carver County
This Benton is located in Carver County and lies 1,266 miles [2,037.4 km]<1> to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Carver County community of Benton.
Mississippi
Yazoo County
This Benton is located in Yazoo County and lies 1,502 miles [2,417.2 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Yazoo County community of Benton.
Missouri
Saint Louis City
This Benton is located in Saint Louis City and lies 1,260 miles [2,027.8 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Saint Louis City community of Benton.
Scott County
This Benton is located in Scott County and lies 1,283 miles [2,064.8 km] to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Scott County community of Benton.
Montana
Chouteau County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Benton [Chouteau County].
Nebraska
Colfax County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Benton [Colfax County].
New Hampshire
Grafton County
This Benton is located in Grafton County and lies 246 miles [395.9 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Grafton County community of Benton.
New York
Yates County
This Benton is located in Yates County and lies 517 miles [832 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Yates County community of Benton.
Newfoundland and Labrador
This Benton lies 646 miles [1,039.6 km]<1> to the east northeast.
Ohio
Crawford County
This Benton is located in Crawford County and lies 849 miles [1,366.3 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Crawford County community of Benton.
Hancock County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Benton [Hancock County].
Holmes County
This Benton is located in Holmes County and lies 804 miles [1,293.9 km] to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Holmes County community of Benton.
Lorain County
This community is historic<3> and although located in Lorain County, we don't know where within the .
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lorain County community of Benton.
Wood County
This community is historic and although located in Wood County, we don't know where within the .
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wood County community of Benton.
Oklahoma
Beaver County
This community is historic<3> and although located in Beaver County, we don't know where within the .
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Beaver County community of Benton.
Pennsylvania
Columbia County
This Benton is located in Columbia County and lies 549 miles [883.5 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Columbia County community of Benton.
Lancaster County
This Benton is located in Lancaster County and lies 611 miles [983.3 km] to the southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lancaster County community of Benton.
Tennessee
Marshall County
This community is historic<3> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Benton [Marshall County].
Polk County
This Benton is located in Polk County and lies 1,160 miles [1,866.8 km]<1> to the southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Polk County community of Benton.
Texas
Kendall County
This community is historic<3> and although located in Kendall County, we don't know where within the .
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Kendall County community of Benton.
Wisconsin
Lafayette County
This Benton is located in Lafayette County and lies 1,146 miles [1,844.3 km]<1> to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lafayette County community of Benton.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Benton ...
As we travel, we always see a community with a name that gives pause. While there are names which are interesting or familiar, some catch our attention or strike our fancy. We always wonder about such a name. If time permits and the community is not too far, we'll usually try to make a side-trip.
Blowdown (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Blowdown came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Benton to various places of note, such as Parliament Hill.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Benton and extending to:
The National Capital at Parliament Hill (Ottawa, ON) is 391 miles [629.3 km]<1> to the west (W). If you could drive a straight line from Benton to Parliament Hill, with an average speed<5>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take most of a day to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 23 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 16 days.
The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,225 miles [8,408.8 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 5,941 miles [9,561.1 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<8>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 3,817 miles [6,142.9 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<9>
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Benton) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Benton. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 45.9872, Longitude: -67.6091
<2>
If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer.
Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.
Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.
Also keep in mind that Benton could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong . Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.
<3>
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.
<4>
If we found a location and have questions about the accuracy of our information, we will simply say that the marker is 'in the vicinity'. We are not confident about the location and the position of our marker is only a rough guide. If we have too many doubts about the location, we will not include it in our database.
<5>
While we have tried to pick reasonable speeds, the rate of travel is very theoretical - obstacles like fences, hills, lakes, river crossings and rest stops have been ignored. When we say 'Days' of travel, we're assuming 8 hours of travel per day.
<6>
The shortest line can be visualized by stretching a string on a Globe from Point A to Point B - this is known as a Great Circle Route. Where you might expect the shortest route from Benton to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 301.193 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 297.094 degrees.
<9>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 296.884 degrees.