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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.

Benson within Cache County

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

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Benson 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,485
20201,492+7 (+0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

27 since 1992

Regional 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/undetermined12
Debris and open burning7
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsCUTLER PEAK
8 August 1998Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State Lands3200 WEST
8 August 1998Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsHYDE PARK LANE
6 August 2006Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State Lands218
30 August 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsHYDE PARK LANE
29 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined29 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsBIRD
29 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsGREEN CANYON SUBSTATION
27 August 2005Equipment and vehicle use20 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsBENSEN MARINA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cache 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
Riverside0.7 miles16
Petersboro3.0 miles16
Ballard Junction3.0 miles16
Greenville4.6 miles18
Cache Junction5.1 miles10
Cardon5.2 miles18
Amalga5.4 miles16
Mendon5.9 miles17

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 BensonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2251957The 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.