Benton
Benton is a town in Polk County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 1,532 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Polk County. Benton is included in the Cleveland, Tennessee Metropolitan Statistical Area.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 1,090 residents
- Description: city in Tennessee
- Also known as: “Benton, Tennessee”, “Benton, TN”, and “Four Mile Stand”
- Postal code: 37307
Places of Interest
Highlights include Polk County Courthouse and Nancy Ward Tomb.
Polk County Courthouse
Courthouse
Photo: BrineStans, CC BY 3.0.
The Polk County Courthouse is a historic building in Benton, Tennessee. It serves as the courthouse for Polk County, Tennessee. Three courthouses were built for Polk County before this one.
Nancy Ward Tomb
Memorial
Photo: Jamie Hargis, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Nancy Ward Tomb is the tomb of Nancy Ward, her brother and her son in Benton, Tennessee, U.S. In 1923, a plaque reading "Princess and Prophetess of the Cherokee Nation, the Pocahontas of Tennessee, and a constant friend of the American Pioneer" was installed by the Nancy Ward Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Nancy Ward Tomb is situated 1½ miles southwest of Benton.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Benton Station and Benton Springs.
Benton Station
Hamlet
Benton Station is an unincorporated community in Polk County, in the U.S. state of Tennessee. The community is two miles east from the county seat of Benton on Benton Station Road. Benton Station is situated 2 miles northwest of Benton.
Benton Springs
Hamlet
Benton Springs is an unincorporated community in Polk County, in the U.S. state of Tennessee. The community was named for Thomas Hart Benton, a Missouri politician. Nearby Benton Station and Benton were also named for him as well. Benton Springs is situated 2½ miles southeast of Benton.
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Ocoee is in the United States in the state of Tennessee. Ocoee's claim to fame is the fact that they were a venue for the 1996 Olympics hosted by Atlanta, GA.Benton
- Categories: town in the United States and locality
- Location: Polk, Tennessee, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
35.17424° or 35° 10′ 27″ northLongitude
-84.65355° or 84° 39′ 13″ westPopulation
1,090Elevation
741 feet (226 metres)United Nations Location Code
US BQOOpen location code
867Q58FW+MHOpenStreetMap ID
node 154000446OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Benton” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بنتون”
- Basque: “Benton”
- Catalan: “Benton”
- Cebuano: “Benton”
- Chechen: “Бентон”
- Chinese: “Benton”
- Chinese: “本顿”
- Dutch: “Benton”
- French: “Benton”
- German: “Benton”
- Gilaki: “بنتن (تنسي)”
- Gilaki: “بنتن”
- Haitian: “Benton, Tennessee”
- Haitian: “Benton”
- Hungarian: “Benton”
- Ido: “Benton, Tennessee”
- Ido: “Benton”
- Irish: “Benton”
- Italian: “Benton”
- Japanese: “ベントン”
- Ladin: “Benton”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Benton”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Benton”
- Norwegian: “Benton”
- Persian: “بنتون، تنسی”
- Persian: “بنتون”
- Polish: “Benton”
- Portuguese: “Benton”
- Russian: “Бентон”
- Serbian: “Бентон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Benton, Tennessee”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Benton”
- South Azerbaijani: “بنتون، تنسی”
- Spanish: “Benton”
- Swedish: “Benton, Tennessee”
- Swedish: “Benton”
- Tatar: “Бентон”
- Ukrainian: “Бентон”
- Urdu: “بینٹن، ٹینیسی”
- Urdu: “بینٹن”
- Uzbek: “Benton”
- Uzbek: “Бентон”
- Volapük: “Benton”
- Welsh: “Benton, Tennessee”
- Welsh: “Benton”
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