Bentonia
Bentonia is a town in Yazoo County, Mississippi, United States. The population as of the 2020 census was 319. The Bentonia School of blues singing and guitar-playing is named for Bentonia.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 499 residents
- Description: town in Yazoo County, Mississippi, United States of America
- Also known as: “Bentonia (Mississippi)”, “Bentonia, Mississippi”, “Bentonia, MS”, and “Pritchetts Cross Roads”
- Postal code: 39040
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Anding and Little Yazoo.
Anding
Hamlet
Anding is an unincorporated community located in Yazoo County, Mississippi. Anding is approximately 2 miles east of Oil City and approximately 5 miles north of Bentonia. It is the birthplace of quiltmaker Sarah Mary Taylor. Anding has a zip code of 39040. Anding is situated 4 miles northwest of Bentonia.
Little Yazoo
Hamlet
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Little Yazoo is an unincorporated community located in Yazoo County, Mississippi. Little Yazoo is approximately 5 miles north of Bentonia and 2 miles northeast of Anding on U.S. Route 49. Little Yazoo is situated 4½ miles north of Bentonia.
Oil City
Hamlet
Oil City is an unincorporated community located in Yazoo County, Mississippi. Oil City is approximately 2 miles west of Anding, 4 miles south of Tinsley and approximately 8 miles northwest of Bentonia. Oil City is situated 5 miles northwest of Bentonia.
Bentonia
- Categories: town in the United States and locality
- Location: Yazoo, Mississippi, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
32.64097° or 32° 38′ 28″ northLongitude
-90.36481° or 90° 21′ 53″ westPopulation
499Elevation
194 feet (59 metres)Open location code
864FJJRP+93OpenStreetMap ID
node 151814278OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
4417743Wikidata ID
Q1904367
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Bentonia” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بينتونيا”
- Basque: “Bentonia”
- Bulgarian: “Бентония”
- Catalan: “Bentonia”
- Cebuano: “Bentonia”
- Chechen: “Бентони”
- Chinese: “Bentonia”
- Chinese: “本托尼亞”
- Dutch: “Bentonia”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بينتونيا”
- French: “Bentonia”
- German: “Bentonia”
- Gilaki: “بنتنیا (ميسيسيپي)”
- Gilaki: “بنتنیا”
- Haitian: “Bentonia, Mississippi”
- Haitian: “Bentonia”
- Hebrew: “בנטוניה”
- Hungarian: “Bentonia”
- Italian: “Bentonia”
- Japanese: “ベントーニア”
- Japanese: “ベントニア”
- Kazakh: “Бентониа”
- Kirghiz: “Бентониа”
- Ladin: “Bentonia”
- Mazanderani: “بنتونیا (میسیسیپی)”
- Mazanderani: “بنتونیا”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bentonia”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bentonia”
- Norwegian: “Bentonia”
- Persian: “بنتونیا”
- Polish: “Bentonia”
- Portuguese: “Bentonia”
- Russian: “Бентония”
- Serbian: “Бентонија”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bentonia, Mississippi”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bentonia”
- South Azerbaijani: “بنتونیا، میسیسیپی”
- Spanish: “Bentonia”
- Swedish: “Bentonia”
- Tatar: “Бентония”
- Ukrainian: “Бентонія”
- Urdu: “بینٹونیا، مسیسپی”
- Urdu: “بینٹونیا”
- Uzbek: “Bentonia”
- Vietnamese: “Bentonia, Mississippi”
- Vietnamese: “Bentonia”
- Volapük: “Bentonia”
- Welsh: “Bentonia, Mississippi”
- Welsh: “Bentonia”
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