Editing Bennett, Colorado

{{short description|A statutory town in Adams and Arapahoe counties, Colorado, United States}}
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| name               = Bennett, Colorado
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| elevation_ft       = 5486
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| leader_title       = Mayor
| leader_name        = Whitney Oakley<ref>{{cite web |title=Town Board of Trustees |publisher=Town of Bennett |url=https://www.bennettco.gov/town-board-trustees |accessdate=April 28, 2025 }}</ref>
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| established_date2  = January 22, 1930<ref name=MuniIncCO>{{cite web | url = http://www.colorado.gov/dpa/doit/archives/muninc.html | title = Colorado Municipal Incorporations | publisher = [[Colorado|State of Colorado]], Department of Personnel & Administration, Colorado State Archives | date = December 1, 2004 | accessdate = August 18, 2007}}</ref>
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| population_total   = 2,862
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| website            = [https://www.bennettco.gov/ Town of Bennett]
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'''Bennett''' is a [[List of municipalities in Colorado#Statutory town|statutory town]] located in [[Adams County, Colorado|Adams]] and [[Arapahoe County, Colorado|Arapahoe]] [[List of counties in Colorado|counties]], [[Colorado]], United States.<ref name=COMun/> The town population was 2,862 at the [[2020 United States census]] with 2,443 residing in Adams County and 419 residing in Arapahoe County.<ref name=2020_Census/>

==History==
Bennett was originally known as Kiowa Crossing, The Bennet, Colorado, post office opened on March 16, 1877, but the spelling was changed to Bennett on June 1, 1907,<ref name=CPO>{{cite book|title=Colorado Post Offices 1859–1989|first1=William H.|last1=Bauer|first2=James L.|last2=Ozment|first3=John H.|last3=Willard|date=1990|publisher=[[Colorado Railroad Museum|Colorado Railroad Historical Foundation]]|location=[[Golden, Colorado]]|isbn=0-918654-42-4}}</ref> and the Town of Bennett was incorporated on January 22, 1930.<ref name=MuniIncCO/> Bennett was named for [[Hiram Pitt Bennet]], congressional delegate from the Territory of Colorado and Colorado Secretary of State.<ref>{{cite book|last=Dawson|first=John Frank|title=Place names in Colorado: why 700 communities were so named, 150 of Spanish or Indian origin|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015051116740;view=1up;seq=15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230217074131/https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015051116740;view=1up;seq=15|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 17, 2023|year=1954|publisher=The J. Frank Dawson Publishing Co.|location=Denver, CO|page=9}}</ref>

===Kiowa Crossing and train wreck===
On May 21, 1878, a heavy rainstorm washed out the railroad bridge over [[Kiowa Creek (Colorado)|Kiowa Creek]] to the east of town. A [[Kansas Pacific Railway]] train of 25 cars loaded with scrap iron was washed into the stream with crewmen Frank Seldon, George Piatt, and John Bacon on board. Most of the wrecked train was recovered, but the locomotive #51 was never officially found. The story of the lost locomotive inspired [[Clive Cussler]] to write ''[[Night Probe!]]''; Later, in 1989, his nonprofit [[National Underwater and Marine Agency|NUMA]] searched for the locomotive with no luck, as it turned out the locomotive wasn't there to find. That same year, archivist Lloyd Glasier at Union Pacific discovered that the railroad had found the locomotive, secretly lifted it to the surface and towed it to their workshop, where they rebuilt it, put it back into service with a new number, and collected the insurance money for its loss in an insurance fraud.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.numa.net/expeditions/lost-locomotive-of-kiowa-creek/|publisher=NUMA.net|accessdate=May 18, 2016|title=Lost Locomotive of Kiowa Creek}}</ref>

===Colorado spam king===
[[Eddie Davidson|Edward Davidson]], known also as the "Colorado Spam King", operated an illegal spamming company, Power promotions, from July 2002 through April 2007 from a home near Bennett where he had a large network of computers and servers, according to federal authorities. The spam contained false header information, concealing the actual sender from the recipient of the e-mail. Davidson provided spammed messages for about 19 different companies, prosecutors said. Some of the e-mailed pitches were used to dupe stock investors and manipulate the market, federal authorities said. Davidson was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $714,139 to the Internal Revenue Service.{{Citation needed|date=November 2009}} On July 20, 2008, he escaped from a minimum-security federal prison in [[Florence, Colorado]]. Four days later, he was found dead with his wife and a child, both also dead, in an apparent murder-suicide near Bennett.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cbs4denver.com/crime/Edward.Davidson.dead.2.779131.html |title='Spam King' Inmate Dies Along With Wife, Daughter |website=CBS4 Denver |date=July 24, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080725102909/http://www.cbs4denver.com/crime/Edward.Davidson.dead.2.779131.html |archive-date=July 25, 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Geography==
Bennett is located at coordinates {{coord|39.7589|-104.4275|type:city_region:US-CO_source:GNIS-204738|display=inline}} at an elevation of 5486<ref name=GNIS/> at the intersection of State Highways [[Colorado State Highway 36|36]] and [[Colorado State Highway 79|79]], just north of [[Interstate 70 in Colorado|Interstate 70]].

At the [[2020 United States census]], the town had a total area of {{convert|15.024|km2|acre|order=flip}} including {{convert|0.016|km2|acre|order=flip}} of water.<ref name=2020_Census/>

The [[U.S. state temperature extremes|highest temperature ever recorded in Colorado]] occurred in Bennett on July 11, 1888, when it reached 118&nbsp;°F (48&nbsp;°C).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/pub/data/special/maxtemps.pdf |title=Record Highest Temperatures by State |website=www.ncdc.noaa.gov |access-date=June 9, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150214150501/http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/pub/data/special/maxtemps.pdf |archive-date=February 14, 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref> However, climatologists say this reading is an error because the temperature in downtown Denver on that day reached 100 degrees and it would be nearly impossible for it to be 18 degrees hotter just 30 miles east.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.9news.com/article/weather/weather-colorado/colorado-temperature-record-1888-false/73-b5706f9e-9925-4f8e-9ced-6fa035fd80ab | title=Colorado temperature record from 1888 is not valid | date=July 12, 2023 }}</ref>

==Education==
Bennett is served by the Bennett 29-J School District. In the 2023-2024 school year, [[Bennett High School (Colorado)|Bennett High School]] enrolled 449 students.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=0802430&ID=080243000092 |title=BENNETT HIGH SCHOOL| publisher=National Center for Education Statistics}}</ref>

==Demographics==
{{US Census population
| align = left
| 1930 = 211
| 1940 = 199
| 1950 = 272
| 1960 = 287
| 1970 = 613
| 1980 = 942
| 1990 = 1757
| 2000 = 2021
| 2010 = 2308
| 2020 = 2862
| estyear = 2025
| estimate = 3979
| estref = <ref>{{cite web |title=Bennett |publisher=World Population Review |url=https://worldpopulationreview.com/us-cities/colorado/bennett |accessdate=April 28, 2025 }}</ref>
| footnote = [[United States census|U.S. Decennial Census]]
}}
Bennett is a part of the [[Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area]] and the [[Front Range Urban Corridor]].

As of the [[census]]<ref name="GR2">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov |publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]] |accessdate=January 31, 2008 |title=U.S. Census website  }}</ref> of 2000, there were 2,021 people, 715 households, and 539 families residing in the town. The population density was {{convert|652.3|PD/sqmi|PD/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}. There were 732 housing units at an average density of {{convert|236.3|/sqmi|/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}. The racial makeup of the town was 94.56% [[White (U.S. Census)|White]], 0.49% [[African American (U.S. Census)|African American]], 0.74% [[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]], 0.30% [[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]], 0.15% [[Pacific Islander (U.S. Census)|Pacific Islander]], 1.63% from [[Race (United States Census)|other races]], and 2.13% from two or more races. [[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]] of any race were 4.45% of the population.

There were 715 households, out of which 49.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 58.3% were [[Marriage|married couples]] living together, 10.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 24.5% were non-families. 21.0% of all households were made up of individuals, and 6.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.83 and the average family size was 3.30.

In the town, the population was spread out, with 34.5% under the age of 18, 7.0% from 18 to 24, 34.7% from 25 to 44, 18.1% from 45 to 64, and 5.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 31 years. For every 100 females, there were 103.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 97.8 males.

The median income for a household in the town was $46,600, and the median income for a family was $50,881. Males had a median income of $38,672 versus $26,354 for females. The [[per capita income]] for the town was $17,905. About 3.7% of families and 5.8% of the population were below the [[poverty line]], including 5.9% of those under age 18 and 8.9% of those age 65 or over.
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*[[Hiram Pitt Bennet]] (September 2, 1826 – November 11, 1914), congressional delegate from the [[Territory of Colorado]] and [[Colorado Secretary of State]]<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite/TownofBennett/CBON/1251599843938|title= Town History|publisher= State of Colorado|accessdate= August 31, 2012|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140804042624/http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite/TownofBennett/CBON/1251599843938|archive-date= August 4, 2014|url-status= dead}}</ref>
*[[Tim Samaras]] (1957–2013), engineer and storm chaser who starred on [[Discovery Channel]]'s documentary reality television series ''[[Storm Chasers (TV series)|Storm Chasers]]''
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==See also==
{{portal|Geography|History|United States|Colorado}}
*[[Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area]]
*[[Front Range Urban Corridor]]
*[[List of municipalities in Colorado]]
*[[List of populated places in Colorado]]
*[[List of post offices in Colorado]]
*[[The Sea Hunters: True Adventures With Famous Shipwrecks]]
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==References==
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==External links==
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*[https://www.bennettco.gov/ Town of Bennett]
**[http://www.townofbennett.org/ Bennett, Colorado]
*[https://www.colorado.gov/ State of Colorado]
**[http://dtdapps.coloradodot.info/staticdata/Downloads/CityMaps/Bennett.pdf CDOT map of the Town of Bennett]
**[https://www.historycolorado.org/ History Colorado]
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[[Category:Towns in Adams County, Colorado]]
[[Category:Towns in Arapahoe County, Colorado]]
[[Category:Towns in Colorado]]
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