Benson, Utah
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Logan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84335. The Survey maps it on the Newton quadrangle. 1,492 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,429 feet above sea level.
On record in Benson
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 1 record
- Benson Elementary Schoollisted 1985
Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record
- Benson Bridge, Spanning Cutler Reservoir, Bensonfederal building survey, 11 photographs
Population over time
2 figuresBenson grew from 1,485 to 1,492 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 | 1,485 | |
| 2020 | 1,492 | +7 (+0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 16 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.
- 1914 USGS Logan quadrangle1:125000
- 1916 USGS Logan quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Ogden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Ogden quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Ogden quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Newton quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS Logan quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
27 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Benson between 1992 and 2017, burning about 971 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 September 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | CUTLER PEAK |
| 8 August 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | 3200 WEST |
| 8 August 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | HYDE PARK LANE |
| 6 August 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | 218 |
| 30 August 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | HYDE PARK LANE |
| 29 August 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 29 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | BIRD |
| 29 August 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | GREEN CANYON SUBSTATION |
| 27 August 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 20 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | BENSEN MARINA |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Riverside | 0.7 miles | 16 | |
| Petersboro | 3.0 miles | 16 | |
| Ballard Junction | 3.0 miles | 16 | |
| Greenville | 4.6 miles | 18 | |
| Cache Junction | 5.1 miles | 10 | |
| Cardon | 5.2 miles | 18 | |
| Amalga | 5.4 miles | 16 | |
| Mendon | 5.9 miles | 17 |
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 Benson | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2251957 | 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 1425433. 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.






