Benton County, Indiana, United States

Details for Benton County

Name

Benton County

Place Type

County

Located in

Indiana, United States

County Seat

Fowler (Center Township)

Coordinates

Latitude		40.6167044		40° 37' 00.1" N
Longitude		-87.3208519		87° 19' 15.1" W

Population

9,441

Elevation

251 m

Surrounding Counties

Jasper N
White E
Tippecanoe SE
Warren S
Vermilion (Illinois) SW
Iroquois (Illinois) W
Newton N

USGS GNIS FeatureID

450403

Histopolis Place ID

326312892

Updated Dec 3, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Benton County

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

Benton County, Indiana IN, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Benton County, Indiana IN, county profile, with sections on demographics, cemeteries, the economy, government, history and politics.
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=5181 (12 Nov 2008)

Cemeteries in or near Benton County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=5181&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (9 Dec 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=795 (25 Aug 2009)

(page title not available) [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/in/benton/benton.html (24 Jan 2010)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Indiana > Benton County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Indiana > Benton County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/IN/Benton/ (3 Feb 2010)

Benton County, Indiana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benton_County,_Indiana (16 Jul 2010)

The Political Graveyard: Benton County, Ind. [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/IN/BE.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

EveryNameIndex.com - Every Name Index to Counties of Warren, Benton, Jasper & Newton, IN (1883) [everynameindex.com] Added Dec 3, 2011
Compiled by Cathy L. O'Connor, 2008. Original text published by F. A. Battey & Co., 1883, reproduction by Unigraphic, Inc., 1973. This index contains over 20,500 entries.
http://www.everynameindex.com/BentonCoIN.html (2 Dec 2011)

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Surveys in Benton County

1 Survey, 4 Ranges, 12 Townships

The Second Principal Meridian survey governs land descriptions in all or part of Benton County. You can navigate to any of the 12 survey townships that overlap Benton County using the navigation tool below.

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Townships of Benton County

11 Townships

Bolivar	Center	Gilboa	Grant
Hickory Grove	Oak Grove	Parish Grove	Pine
Richland	Union	York

Cities of Benton County

6 Towns, 19 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (Unincorporated Place (u.p.) is assumed unless noted)

Ambia (town)	Atkinson	Barce	Boswell (town)
Chase	Dunn	Dunnington	Earl Park (town)
Fargo	Foresman	Fowler (town)	Free
Freeland Park	Gravel Hill	Handy	Lochiel
Otterbein (town)	Oxford (town)	Raub	Sheff
Swanington	Talbot	Templeton	Wadena
Yeagers Curve

Cemeteries of Benton County

12 Cemeteries, 1 Alternate Name (*) (Cemetery is assumed unless noted)

Blue Ridge	Boswell	Dehner	Earl Park
Fleming	Griffin	Justus	Oxford
Perigo	Saint John	Smith	St. John (*)
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