Benton County is the name of nine counties in the United States:
- Benton County, Arkansas
- Benton County, Indiana
- Benton County, Iowa
- Benton County, Minnesota
- Benton County, Mississippi
- Benton County, Missouri
- Benton County, Oregon
- Benton County, Tennessee
- Benton County, Washington
- Calhoun County, Alabama was established as Benton County in 1832, and renamed in 1858.
- Hernando County, Florida was named Benton County from 1844 through 1850.
Famous quotes containing the words benton and/or county:
“All my life I’ve felt like somebody’s wife, or somebody’s mother or somebody’s daughter. Even all the time we were together, I never knew who I was. And that’s why I had to go away. And in California, I think I found myself.”
—Robert Benton (b. 1932)
“It would astonish if not amuse, the older citizens of your County who twelve years ago knew me a stranger, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working on a flat boat—at ten dollars per month to learn that I have been put down here as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)