Over de plaats » Bennington, Bear Lake County, Idaho, Verenigde Staten

Bennington is an unincorporated census-designated place in Bear Lake County, Idaho, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 190. It is located in the southeast corner of the state, on U.S. Route 30 about five miles north of Montpelier and 12 miles south of Georgetown. Bennington is a small farming community settled by Mormon Pioneers in 1864. It was named by Brigham Young after a town in Vermont near where he was born and grew up. Many of the inhabitants in Bennington are direct descendants of these early pioneers. Its elevation is 6,053 ft (1,845 m).