Bennington, Oklahoma
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the East Bryan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74723. It stands on Rabbit Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bennington North quadrangle. 282 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 632 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresBennington fell from 334 to 282 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 334 | |
| 2020 | 282 | -52 (-16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1899 USGS Atoka quadrangle1:125000
- 1900 USGS Atoka quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Ardmore quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1963 USGS Ardmore quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1969 USGS Bennington North quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Tishomingo quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
3 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Bennington between 1995 and 2018, burning about 169 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 burning | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 August 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 146 acres | Talihina Agency | RHUE FIRE |
| 14 March 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 15 January 1995 | Debris and open burning | 23 acres | Chickasaw National Recreation Area | COLLINS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Bennington: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown Sandstone Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
19 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bennington in 19 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 10 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bennington | $50,000 | Relayed images courtesy of the Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management show the roof of a large brick outbuilding blown off along with siding damage to a nearby house. The event time is estimated from radar observations. |
| May 2007 | Flash Flood | Bennington | $10,000 | A vehicle was swept off a county road near HWY 70. The occupant was rescued without injury. Monetary damages were estimated. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bennington | $2,000 | Trees were downed on Perry Street. Monetary damages were estimated. |
| April 1994 | Hail | Bennington | $500 | no account filed |
| April 2026 | Hail | Bennington | - | The location is approximate, and the event time is estimated based on radar observations. |
| May 2016 | Tornado (EF2) | Bennington | - | A tornado developed southeast of Bennington, and quickly became very large as it moved east-northeast. Widespread destruction of trees was observed across eastern Bryan County. The tornado moved into Choctaw County southwest of Boswell. See the eastern Oklahoma Storm Data entry from NWS Tulsa for information about this tornado in Choctaw County. |
| April 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bennington | - | Damage to trees and power lines. |
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Bennington | - | Starlight Lane was closed due to flooding. |
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Bennington | - | County Line Road, 1/2 mile north of Highway 70, was closed due to flooding. |
| June 1994 | Hail | Bennington | - | Thunderstorms in central and southern Oklahoma during the late afternoon and evening hours on the 24th produced hail up to golf ball-size and damaging winds. Thunderstorm winds tore the roof off and damaged a wall of the Ole Waffle Shop, damaged several homes, broke out windows, damaged several signs, snapped power poles, overturned tombstones, overturned an irrigation pivot, uprooted trees, and knocked down a fence in Duncan. Thunderstorm winds at Duncan Municipal Airport blew out windows, destroyed a hanger, and damaged three airplanes. Thunderstorm winds destroyed a storage building and broke two large plate glass windows at a car dealership south of Duncan, overturned a mobile home in southeast Duncan, knocked down power lines and trees in Comanche, tore the roof off a grocery store, destroyed a barn, destroyed several sheds, ripped shingles off a roof, and broke tree limbs in Waurika, ripped the roof off a store south of Waurika, broke tree limbs in Durant, and ripped shingles from roofs from Ryan south along Route 81 to near Terral. Hail up to golf ball-size in combination with thunderstorm winds destroyed a satellite dish in Durant. |
| June 1994 | Hail | Bennington | - | A thunderstorm in southeast Oklahoma during the late afternoon hours on the 25th produced hail up to nickel-size. |
| April 2020 | Hail | Bennington | - | no account filed |
| April 2020 | Hail | Bennington | - | no account filed |
| December 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bennington | - | no account filed |
| September 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bennington | - | no account filed |
| November 2004 | Hail | Bennington | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Bennington | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Bennington | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | Bennington | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Bennington | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2339408 | The 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 1090009. 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.
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.





