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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.

Bennington within Bryan County

Population over time

2 figures

Bennington 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.

YearPeople Change
2010334
2020282-52 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

3 since 1995

Regional 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 burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
24 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined146 acresTalihina AgencyRHUE FIRE
14 March 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
15 January 1995Debris and open burning23 acresChickasaw National Recreation AreaCOLLINS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bryan County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unknown Sandstone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Bryan County

Storms near this place

19 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2025Thunderstorm WindBennington$50,000Relayed 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 2007Flash FloodBennington$10,000A vehicle was swept off a county road near HWY 70. The occupant was rescued without injury. Monetary damages were estimated.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindBennington$2,000Trees were downed on Perry Street. Monetary damages were estimated.
April 1994HailBennington$500no account filed
April 2026HailBennington-The location is approximate, and the event time is estimated based on radar observations.
May 2016Tornado (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 2014Thunderstorm WindBennington-Damage to trees and power lines.
July 2007Flash FloodBennington-Starlight Lane was closed due to flooding.
July 2007Flash FloodBennington-County Line Road, 1/2 mile north of Highway 70, was closed due to flooding.
June 1994HailBennington-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 1994HailBennington-A thunderstorm in southeast Oklahoma during the late afternoon hours on the 25th produced hail up to nickel-size.
April 2020HailBennington-no account filed
April 2020HailBennington-no account filed
December 2012Thunderstorm WindBennington-no account filed
September 2007Thunderstorm WindBennington-no account filed
November 2004HailBennington-no account filed
May 2001HailBennington-no account filed
April 1996HailBennington-no account filed
May 1995HailBennington-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bryan 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
Old Bennington3.0 miles14
Banty5.4 miles14
Bokchito5.6 miles14
Cade7.0 miles15
Pritchard8.0 miles14
Smith-Lee8.1 miles6
Wade8.2 miles6
Matoy9.1 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 Q2339408The 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.