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Village · Lancaster County · Population 1,082 (2020 census) · ZIP 68317 · Founded 1871

About Bennet

Bennet is a village of 1,082 people (2020), the most it has counted, in southeastern Lancaster County, at 1,299 feet about 13 miles southeast of downtown Lincoln, near the Little Nemaha River. NE 43 runs through the village and meets NE 2 just to the north. Bennet is part of the Bennet–Palmyra school district (OR-1). Bennet is on Central Time.

History

Bennet was founded on July 29, 1871, as a station on the Midland Pacific Railway between Nebraska City and Lincoln, on land previously owned by William Roggenkamp, and was first called Bennett’s Station for John Bennett, an officer of the railroad. It was incorporated on October 1, 1881. In 1890 it had about 700 people on the Burlington’s Nebraska City branch. A 1992 survey found that 76 percent of residents worked in Lincoln, and the village grew from 570 people in 2000 to 1,082 in 2020.

Highways and trails through Bennet

Route	One way	Other way
NE 43North–south through the village	North to NE 2	South toward Adams

Nearby towns

Cheney	about 6 mi west-northwest	County roads
Panama	about 6 mi south	County roads
Palmyra	about 6 mi east-northeast	NE 2
Hickman	about 8 mi west-southwest	County roads
Roca	about 8 mi west	County roads
Eagle	about 10 mi north-northeast	County roads
Lincoln	about 13 mi northwest	NE 2

Things to see

Whispering Pines disc golf

Schools and health care

Schools: Bennet–Palmyra School District OR-1 (elementary in Bennet; junior-senior high in Palmyra, Otoe County)

Health care: Hospitals: Bryan Medical Center (East and West), CHI Health St. Elizabeth and Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital, Lincoln, about 13 mi

Sources: U.S. Census; Wikipedia; Andreas, History of the State of Nebraska (1882); Nebraska State Gazetteer (1890); NEGenWeb Lancaster County; History Nebraska; National Register; Nebraska Game and Parks; Lower Platte South NRD; City of Lincoln; Lincoln Airport; Nebraska State Capitol; Flatwater Free Press; school districts; city and village sites. Distances marked "about" are straight-line estimates.