Benoit, Wisconsin

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Benoit, Wisconsin
unincorporated community
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Coordinates: 46°30′07″N91°04′37″W / 46.50194°N 91.07694°W / 46.50194; -91.07694
Country Flag of the United States.svg United States
State Flag of Wisconsin.svg Wisconsin
County Bayfield
Towns Keystone, Mason
Elevation
275 m (902 ft)
Time zone UTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)
ZIP code
54816 [1]
Area codes 715 and 534
GNIS feature ID1578756 [2]

Benoit is an unincorporated community in the towns of Keystone and Mason, Bayfield County, Wisconsin, United States. [2] It is along County Highway F. Benoit is 13 miles southwest of the city of Ashland. Nearby is the junction of U.S. Highway 2 and U.S. Highway 63. [3]

History

The community was named for Antoine Benoit, a pioneer French settler. [4] Other names before Benoit included Thirty Miles Siding, Peckville, Peck and Benoitville. [5]

Notes

  1. ↑ "Benoit ZIP Code". zipdatamaps.com. 2022. Retrieved November 11, 2022.
  2. 1 2 "Benoit". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  3. ↑ "Benoit Populated Place Profile / Bayfield County, Wisconsin Data".
  4. ↑ Chicago and North Western Railway Company (1908). A History of the Origin of the Place Names Connected with the Chicago & North Western and Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railways. p. 168.
  5. ↑ Gard, Robert (2015). The Romance of Wisconsin Place Names (2nd ed.). Madison, WI: Wisconsin Historical Society Press. p. 27. ISBN   978-0-87020-707-5.


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