Benson
Benson is a borough in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, United States. The town is more commonly known to locals as Hollsopple, which is also the United States Postal Service name for the town, zip code 15935.Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.
- Type: Village with 181 residents
- Description: borough of Pennsylvania
- Also known as: “Benson, PA”, “Bethel”, “Hollsopple”, “Hollsopple, PA”, and “Hollsopple, Pennsylvania”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Seanor and Blough.
Seanor
Hamlet
Seanor is an unincorporated community and coal town in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, United States. Its post office closed in 2004. Seanor is situated 1½ miles east of Benson.
Blough
Hamlet
Blough is an unincorporated community and coal town in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, United States. Blough is situated 2½ miles south of Benson.
Paint
Village
Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.
Paint is a borough in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 907 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania Metropolitan Statistical Area. Paint is situated 5 miles northeast of Benson.
Benson
- Categories: borough of Pennsylvania and locality
- Location: Borough of Benson, Somerset, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.20841° or 40° 12′ 30″ northLongitude
-78.9278° or 78° 55′ 40″ westPopulation
181Elevation
1,529 feet (466 metres)Open location code
87G3635C+9VOpenStreetMap ID
node 157620591OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
5179991Wikidata ID
Q1130569
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Benson” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Benson”
- Catalan: “Benson”
- Cebuano: “Benson”
- Chechen: “Голлсоппл”
- Chinese: “Benson”
- Dutch: “Benson”
- Dutch: “Hollsopple”
- French: “Hollsopple”
- German: “Benson”
- German: “Hollsopple”
- Gilaki: “بنسن (پنسيلوانيا)”
- Gilaki: “بنسن”
- Haitian: “Benson, Pennsilvani”
- Haitian: “Benson”
- Italian: “Benson”
- Korean: “벤슨”
- Ladin: “Benson (Pennsylvania)”
- Ladin: “Benson”
- Low German: “Benson”
- Mainfränkisch: “Benson”
- Malagasy: “Benson, Pennsylvania”
- Malagasy: “Benson”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Benson”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Benson (Pennsylvania)”
- Norwegian: “Benson”
- Portuguese: “Benson”
- Serbian: “Бенсон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Benson, Pennsylvania”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Benson”
- Spanish: “Benson”
- Swedish: “Benson, Pennsylvania”
- Swedish: “Benson”
- Tatar: “Голлсоппл”
- Ukrainian: “Голлсоппл”
- Urdu: “بینسن، پنسلوانیا”
- Urdu: “بینسن”
- Uzbek: “Benson”
- Uzbek: “Бенсон”
- Vietnamese: “Benson, Pennsylvania”
- Vietnamese: “Benson”
- Volapük: “Benson”
- Welsh: “Benson, Pennsylvania”
- Welsh: “Benson”
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