Benton Pennsylvania Map

About Benton, Pennsylvania

Benton is a locality in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a small community with a population of 823. The population density is 532.3 people per km². Benton is located at 41.1957°N, 76.3843°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Benton is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 17518, 17814.

Benton occupies a quiet expanse of land where the earth rises in slow, deliberate swells, draped in the verdant, tangled growth of Ferncliff Wildlife & Wildflower Preserve. It lies 18.3 miles south of Lancaster, PA (from Lancaster, PA: bearing 171°T), and is situated 9.5 miles south-southwest of Quarryville. Sunlight here seems to possess a peculiar, honeyed weight, lingering over the fields before slipping toward the Susquehanna River, which flows with a steady, muscular grace just a mile from the center of the village. The air carries the scent of damp loam and cooling stone, a sensory reminder of the deep, inland woods that define the horizon. Distant peaks of the Appalachian Mountains stand as pale, jagged ghosts against the sky, marking the limit of the world beyond these immediate, shadowed hollows.

Benton maintains a rhythm dictated by the changing seasons and the legacy of the soil, grounded in an economy that favors the yield of the land and the quiet persistence of local commerce. Life moves with the deliberate pace of a place that has long watched the seasons cycle through the nearby timber of the William Penn State Forest, where the canopy creates a cathedral of shifting emerald light. The memory of older, industrial labors still clings to the architecture of the streets, though the modern day finds its focus in the preservation of the surrounding wilderness and the stewardship of the fields. Travelers might find the nearby Mason-Dixon Trail a passage into the deeper, quieter reaches of the landscape, where the silence is broken only by the wind moving through the leaves.

About This Benton Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Benton, Pennsylvania. Coordinates: 41.195691, -76.384254. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Benton includes the ZIP code (17518, 17814), telephone area code (215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878), county seat of Lancaster County (Lancaster), and school district assignment (Benton Area School District).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.