Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Minnesota
- County
- Swift
- Total
- 3.12 sq mi (8.08 km )
- Land
- 3.10 sq mi (8.03 km )
- Water
- 0.019 sq mi (0.05 km )
- Elevation
- 1,040 ft (320 m)
- Density
- 1,122.9/sq mi (433.55/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( Central (CST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 (CDT)
- Fips code
- 27-05212
- Website
- https://cityofbensonmn.gov/
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- county seat
- Official name
- Benson
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Swift County
- Population
- 3480
- Area
- 7.823575
- Elevation
- 319
- Time zone
- Central Time Zone
- Capital of
- Swift County
- Official website
- www.bensonmn.org
- Image
- 2012-0828-Swift-CountyCourthouse.jpg
- Households
- 1480
- Dialing code
- 320
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- postal code
- 56215
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Benson, Minnesota
- P8168
- NVD
- water as percent of area
- 0.7181
- different from
- Benson
- per capita income
- 31586
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Encyclopedic overview
Benson is a city in Swift County, Minnesota, United States, along the Chippewa River. The population was 3,480 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Benson” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.