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History · Benton Township

31% of Benton Township’s homes were built before 1940

0on the National Register
31%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Benton Township’s past

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A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Benton Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The story so far

Benton Township, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Benton Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Benton Township is a township in Atchison County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 1,014.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 1,014 to 963 (-5%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

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Famous people

Famous people close to Benton Township

Nobody well known was born in Benton Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Amelia EarhartAmerican aviation pioneer and author · b. 1897
Lynn JenkinsFormer U.S. Representative from Kansas · b. 1963
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Mary Peters FieserAmerican chemist · b. 1909
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Jesse StoneAmerican rhythm and blues musician and songwrit… · b. 1901
Bill JamesAmerican baseball writer and statistician · b. 1949
John Moore AllisonAmerican diplomat · b. 1905
Places that used to be

Places now gone and burying grounds

Gone or out of use
Noffsinger SchoolschoolPrairie View SchoolschoolStar Schoolschool
4cemeteries and burying grounds inside Benton Township
Maple GroveMonroviaNeillPleasant Grove

Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Kapioma TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townCenter Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townGrasshopper TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townNorton TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townLancaster TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.