BlockBefore

Bennington, Idaho

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Montpelier census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83254. The Survey maps it on the Georgetown quadrangle. 236 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,008 feet above sea level.

Bennington within Bear Lake County

Population over time

2 figures

Bennington grew from 190 to 236 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010190
2020236+46 (+24%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

6 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Bennington between 1994 and 2016, burning about 10 acres in total. 4 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Natural4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
12 September 2004Naturalunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National ForestMOOSE RIDGE
2 August 2016Natural5.3 acresCaribou-Targhee National ForestMAPLE CANYON
26 July 1994Naturalunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictW.BENINGTN
18 July 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National Forestnot named
3 October 2010Natural1.5 acresCaribou-Targhee National ForestBENNINGTON CANYON
11 October 2012Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresCaribou-Targhee National ForestFOX FLAT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bear Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Bennington: 4 occurrences, 2 unknowns, 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Lead, Silver, Gold, Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Owen QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducer
Tiptop ProspectLead, Silver, GoldOccurrenceReplacement
Unnamed LocationGold, SilverUnknown
Bear Lake ConcreteSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Bear River AreaPhosphorus-PhosphatesUnknown
Bennington Canyon MinePhosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer1941
Phosphate DepositPhosphorus-PhosphatesOccurrence
Unnamed LocationSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Unnamed LocationSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Bear Lake County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Montpelier4.9 miles13
Bern4.9 miles13
Wooleys5.4 miles14
Lindsayville6.0 miles14
Georgetown6.8 miles13
Ovid8.1 miles13
Liberty8.6 miles13
Novene8.8 miles14

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on BenningtonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3638287The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 396104. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.