Benton County was created in the year 1837 and named in the honor of Thomas Hart Benton, a U.S. Senator from Missouri. Located in the U.S. state of Iowa, this county is home to more than 26k people with marvelous combination of races including White, Native American, black or African American, Asian, Hispanic or Latino, Pacific Islander, and others along with 9.7K households and 7K families. This county sprawls across around 718.45 sq mi. Vinton is the county seat.

The rapid demand of genealogical research has necessitated the inception of this excellent Benton County search index. From this archive you can quite easily pull up a huge collection of records and information concerning probates, marriage, casualty reports, naturalization and immigration details, civil war records, birth, familial SSN, civil court facts, census and assets deeds, separation decree information, military armed service and so on.