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Benton is a city in and the county seat of Franklin County, Illinois.The population was 6,709 at the 2020 census. [3] In 1839, Franklin County was split roughly in half and the county seat was permanently fixed "at a hill at the south end of Rowling's Prairie", the site of the future city of Benton.
In recent years, average temperatures in the county seat of Benton have ranged from a low of 21 °F (−6 °C) in January to a high of 90 °F (32 °C) in July, although a record low of −22 °F (−30 °C) was recorded in January 1977 and a record high of 104 °F (40 °C) was recorded in August 2007.
As of the 2020 census [1] there were 8,662 people, 3,684 households, and 2,084 families residing in the township. The population density was 235.93 inhabitants per square mile (91.09/km 2).
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Franklin County was settled slowly. Few squatters occupied public lands before the land office at Shawneetown opened in 1814, and as late as 1850, half of the public land remained in federal ownership; only after the Bit Act of 1854, which cut prices by 90%, did private men purchase most of the remaining lands.
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