Do you know of Benge ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Benge. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Benge.

Our sources for Benge (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Benge other than they indicate that Benge would be found somewhere in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1897 and closed  in 1913.

This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.

Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.

Communities Also Named Benge ...

We found two communities that share the name Benge.

Within Oklahoma, the name Benge is unique.

Beyond Oklahoma, we know of another two communities that are located throughout in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Kentucky
    • Clay County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Benge [Clay County].
  • Washington
    • Adams County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Benge [Adams County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Benge ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Benge:

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

Rand McNally Map of Oklahoma (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in  Sequoyah County ...

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As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Sequoyah County.