City of Benham

City of Benham is a locality in Harlan, Kentucky. City of Benham is situated nearby to the hamlet Clutts, as well as near Blair.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kentucky Coal Museum and Kingdom Come State Park.

Kentucky Coal Museum

Museum

The Kentucky Coal Museum is a heritage center located in Benham, Kentucky. Its focus is the history of the coal industry in Eastern Kentucky, featuring specific exhibits on the company towns of Benham and neighboring Lynch.

Kingdom Come State Park

Park

Kingdom Come State Park is a part of Kentucky's state park system in Harlan County atop Pine Mountain near the city of Cumberland. It was named after the 1903 best-selling novel The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come by native Kentuckian John Fox, Jr. Kingdom Come State Park is situated 2½ miles north of City of Benham.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cumberland and Lynch.

Cumberland

Town

Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.

Cumberland is a home rule-class city in Harlan County, Kentucky, in the United States. As of the 2020 census, Cumberland had a population of 1,947. The city sits at the confluence of Looney Creek and the Poor Fork Cumberland River.

Lynch

Village

Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.

Lynch is a home rule-class city in Harlan County, Kentucky, United States. In the 2020 census the city population was 658, down from 747 in 2010.

Clutts

Hamlet

Clutts is a coal town and an unincorporated community in Harlan County, Kentucky, United States. The coal it produced was distributed through the Clutts railroad station that gave the community its original name. It has also been referred to as Pee Vee.

City of Benham

Type: Locality with 500 residents
Location: Harlan, Kentucky, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

36.9674° or 36° 58′ 3″ north

Longitude

-82.9601° or 82° 57′ 36″ west

Population

500

Elevation

1,552 feet (473 metres)

Open location code

868VX28Q+WX

GeoNames ID

7169614

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