Benton County, Iowa, United States

Details for Benton County

Name

Benton County

Place Type

County

Located in

Iowa, United States

County Seat

Vinton

Coordinates

Latitude		42.0666636		42° 03' 60" N
Longitude		-92.0668488		92° 04' 00.7" W

Population

22,429

Elevation

279 m

Surrounding Counties

Buchanan N
Linn E
Johnson SE
Iowa S
Poweshiek SW
Tama W
Black Hawk NW

USGS GNIS FeatureID

465195

Histopolis Place ID

525302936

Updated Apr 16, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Benton County

10 Resources; Select a Cemetery below for additional resources specific to that Cemetery.

Benton County, Iowa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benton_County,_Iowa (28 Jul 2010)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Iowa > Benton County > Cemeteries [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Iowa > Benton County > Cemeteries
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/IA/Benton/cem/ (15 Nov 2008)

The Political Graveyard: Benton County, Iowa [The Political Graveyard]
A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 192,291 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present.
http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/BE.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

Cemeteries in or near Benton County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=7166&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (29 Nov 2008)

Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials [Find A Grave]
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=csr&CScnty=552 (11 Sep 2009)

Benton County Iowa Archives [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ia/benton/cemetery.html (18 Oct 2009)

Benton County, Iowa Cemetery Records [Interment.net]
Cemetery records of Benton County, Iowa
http://www.interment.net/us/ia/benton.htm (16 May 2010)

Benton County, Iowa IA, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Benton County, Iowa IA, county profile, with sections on demographics, cemeteries, the economy, government, history and politics.
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=7166 (13 Nov 2008)

Iowa Ghost Towns - Benton County [Iowa Ghost Towns]
http://iowaghosttowns.com/bentoncounty.html (27 Jan 2010)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Iowa > Benton County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Iowa > Benton County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/IA/Benton/ (27 Feb 2010)

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Surveys in Benton County

1 Survey, 5 Ranges, 22 Townships

The Fifth Principal Meridian survey governs land descriptions in all or part of Benton County. You can navigate to any of the 22 survey townships that overlap Benton County using the navigation tool below.

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Townships of Benton County

20 Townships

Benton	Big Grove	Bruce	Canton
Cedar	Eden	Eldorado	Florence
Fremont	Harrison	Homer	Iowa
Jackson	Kane	Leroy	Monroe
Polk	Saint Clair	Taylor	Union

Cities of Benton County

14 Cities, 11 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (City is assumed unless noted)

Atkins	Belle Plaine	Benton City (historical u.p.)	Benton Station (historical u.p.)
Blairstown	Cheney (u.p.)	Country Aire Home Park (u.p.)	Eden (u.p.)
Garrison	Geneva (u.p.)	Irving (u.p.)	Keystone
Luzerne	Manatheka (historical u.p.)	Mount Auburn	Newhall
Norway	Rogersville (u.p.)	Shellsburg	Spencers Grove (u.p.)
Urbana	Van Horne	Vinton	Walford
Watkins (u.p.)

Cemeteries of Benton County

58 Cemeteries, 8 Alternate Names (*) (Cemetery is assumed unless noted)

Beal	Bear Creek	Bellar	Bender
Bishop Grove	Calvary Catholic	Carlisle Grove	Cox
Engledow	Evergreen	Fairview	First Eden
Fix	Garrison	Gnagy	Greenwall
Holy Cross	Houghton	Indian	International
Irving	Keystone	Kisling	LaRue
Lutheran	Maplewood	McBroom	Mound
Mount Auburn	Mt. Auburn (*)	Norway	Oakwood
Old International	Parkers Grove	Pettit Hill	Pleasant Hill
Plum Grove	Prairie Lutheran	Pratt Creek	Raetz
Ramthun	Redman	Saint Johns Lutheran	Saint Joseph
Saint Marys (Polk Township)	Saint Marys (Taylor Township)	Saint Michaels	Saint Patricks
Saint Stephens	Salem	Shellsburg	Spencers Grove
St. Johns Lutheran (*)	St. Joseph (*)	St. Marys (* Polk Township)	St. Marys (* Taylor Township)
St. Michaels (*)	St. Patricks (*)	St. Stephens (*)	Stringtown (historical cemetery)
Twogood	United Brethren	Urbana	Urmy
Van Metre	Wright

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