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Benton County, Indiana

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—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

7historic places

—earliest paper

1840formed

8,719pop. 2020

13cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 7 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1984. Most listings are in or near Oxford, Fowler.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Indiana is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Benton titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

3 of 7 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

7 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Benton County Courthouse	Fowler	Building	2008
Fowler Theatre	Fowler	Building	2004
Fraser & Isham Law Office	Fowler	Building	2000
Heath, David S., House	Oxford	Building	1999
Oxford Community Mausoleum	Oxford	Building	2020
Oxford Town Square Historic District	Oxford	District	2026
Presbyterian Church Building	Oxford	Building	1984

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Benton was formed in 1840 (1840-02-18) from Jasper.

BENTON created from JASPER.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Benton County population from 1850 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1850	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
1,144	2,809	11,108	13,123	12,206	11,117	11,462	11,912	10,218	9,421	8,719

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

13 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 13 of 13 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Blue Ridge Cemetery	40.69325	-87.50068
Boswell Cemetery	40.52003	-87.37001
Dehner Cemetery	40.72202	-87.3633
Earl Park Cemetery	40.67562	-87.42233
Fleming Cemetery	40.72279	-87.51989
Griffin Cemetery	40.4989	-87.20109
Justus Cemetery	40.51334	-87.2481
Oxford Cemetery	40.51843	-87.25897
Perigo Cemetery	40.50945	-87.34572
Saint John the Baptist Cemetery	40.67482	-87.42221
Smith Cemetery	40.48209	-87.35907
Sumner Cemetery	40.6754	-87.42253
Totheroh Cemetery	40.53531	-87.51408

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

HMdb link

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