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Bennington, Nebraska

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Jefferson precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68007. It stands on Hanover Creek. The Survey maps it on the Elkhorn quadrangle. 2,026 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,106 feet above sea level.

Bennington within Douglas County

On record in Bennington

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 4 records

Population over time

2 figures

Bennington grew from 1,458 to 2,026 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
20101,458
20202,026+568 (+39%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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

94 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Bennington between 2007 and 2020, burning about 526 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning51
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Recreation and ceremony8
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Smoking4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Fireworks2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
23 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
31 August 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
25 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
23 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
10 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
10 August 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
5 July 2008Fireworksunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this place

49 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bennington in 49 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 28 hail, 18 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 1998Thunderstorm WindBennington$100,000no account filed
April 1998Thunderstorm WindBennington$10,000Pole barn leveled
March 2025Thunderstorm WindBennington-Mesonet measured wind gust of 63 mph.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindBennington-Personal weather station measured wind gust of 64 mph.
April 2025HailBennington-Public report of hail estimated up to 2 in diameter. Report received via mPING. Delayed report with the time estimated from radar.
April 2025HailBennington-Public report of hail estimated up to 1 in diameter from an mPING report.
April 2025HailBennington-Public report of hail estimated up to 1 in diameter.
April 2025HailBennington-Public report of hail measured up to 2.75 in diameter.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindBennington-Personal weather station measured wind gust of 58 mph.
May 2024HailBennington-Numerous hail reports were received to the office between Elkhorn and Bennington, Nebraska, extending northeast towards the Douglas-Washington County Line a few miles east of Bennington. Hail sizes were predominantly quarters, with golf ball sized hail reported 3 miles southwest of Bennington at 5:30 AM.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindBennington-The office received a public report of trees down 5 miles east of Bennington.
June 2024HailBennington-An off-duty NWS employee reported half-dollar sized hail.
July 2023HailBennington-Public reported 1-inch hail via mPING.
July 2023HailBennington-NWS Employee reported 1- to 1.25-inch hail.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindBennington-A personal weather station measured a peak wind gust of 60 mph.
April 2023HailBennington-Public reported 1-inch hail via social media.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindBennington-Public reported minor damage to limbs and roofing due to a thunderstorm wind gust enhanced by a gustnado.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindBennington-Public reported a 10-12 inch diameter limb snapped off a tree.
May 2019Flash FloodBennington-Several videos posted to social media showing flowing water across several roads across the Omaha metro.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindBennington-Spotters estimated wind gusts to 70 mph in the area. This resulted in some large limbs being blown down.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindBennington-Bleachers were blown over by damaging thunderstorm winds at Bennington High School.
April 2016Tornado (EF0)Bennington-A tornado touched down in a retention pond in the Waterford Subdivision. The tornado was observed by several storm chasers in the area. The damage survey team found little damage in the area.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindBennington-Large tree limbs, 4 to 6 inch in diameter, blown down along Highway 36.
September 2016Thunderstorm WindBennington-The observer noted wind gusts to near 60 mph. Some small tree branches were noted down in the area.
July 2013HailBennington-Trained spotters reported hail of around 1 inch in diameter, but posted on Twitter was a picture of hail up to 2.50 inches in diameter.
August 2012HailBennington-Near 156th and Military.
March 2011HailBennington-Hail that was near tennis ball-size was reported near Bennington. The hail was from the same supercell that produced the damaging hail in the Valley area a few minutes earlier.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindBennington-Thunderstorm winds were estimated by a spotter at over 60 mph near Bennington.
June 2010Heavy RainBennington-Heavy rain caused the Big Papillion Creek to rise to bank-full during the morning hours of June 5th. Six hour rainfall on automated gauges on the creek were as much as 4.25 inches in southern Washington county to around 2.5 inches at gauges in north central Douglas county near and east of Bennington. Omaha Eppley measured a little under 1.5 inches with the storms.
June 2010HailBennington-The hail was accompanied by winds at least 40 to 50 mph.
June 2010HailBennington-Reported near the Washington county line in the northwest part of Douglas county.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindBennington-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph knocked numerous large limbs and several trees down in the Bennington area. The fallen trees caused damage to a few homes and also closed a few roads temporarily.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindBennington-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 mph blew patio chairs into a window causing it to break and also blew a pontoon boat two houses down near Bennington.
September 2006Thunderstorm WindBennington-A thunderstorm wind gust of 61 mph was measured on a home weather station anemometer.
June 2017HailBennington-no account filed
June 2017HailBennington-no account filed
September 2016HailBennington-no account filed
July 2010HailBennington-no account filed
June 2008HailBennington-no account filed
September 2006HailBennington-no account filed
May 2005HailBennington-no account filed
May 2003HailBennington-no account filed
October 2002HailBennington-no account filed
September 2002HailBennington-no account filed
May 2001HailBennington-no account filed
May 2001HailBennington-no account filed
August 1998Thunderstorm WindBennington-no account filed
July 1998HailBennington-no account filed
October 1998HailBennington-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Douglas 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
Maplewood Estates5.4 miles18
Elk City5.8 miles16
Green Meadows6.1 miles17
Irvington6.2 miles18
Omaha Regency6.7 miles17
Elkhorn6.8 miles17
Boys Town7.3 miles17
Rellers Park7.7 miles15

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 Q965343The 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 827327. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.