Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 288
Land area (2000): 0.394286 sq. miles (1.021195 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.394286 sq. miles (1.021195 sq. km)
FIPS code: 05662
Located within: Kentucky (KY), FIPS 21
Location: 36.964832 N, 82.954035 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 40807
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Benham
Wikipedia
Benham may refer to:
The Benham was an automobile manufactured in Detroit, Michigan, by the Benham Manufacturing Company from 1914-17. Approximately 60 units were produced. Benham Manufacturing was the successor to the S&M (Strobel & Martin). The Benham had a Continental engine.
Benham is an Anglo-Scottish locational surname, from Benham, Berkshire or Binham, Norfolk. Notable people with the surname include:
- Andrew Ellicot Kennedy Benham, admiral
- Chris Benham, cricketer
- Donald Benham, politician
- Ellen Ida Benham (1871–1917) science teacher in South Australia.
- Flip Benham, Christian fundamentalist
- Henry Washington Benham, 19th-century American soldier
- Isabel Benham (1901–2013), American railroad finance expert
- Jane Benham Hay (b. 1829), English artist
- Joan Benham, actress.
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John Lee Benham (1785-1864), founder of Benham & Sons of Wigmore Street, London, cooking apparatus manufacturers
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Edward Benham (d. 1869), son of the above and founder of Benham & Co., printers of Colchester, Essex. Editor of Essex County Standard
- Sir William Gurney Benham (1859-1944), elder son of the above, and his successor as proprietor of Benham & Co. Prolific author, High Steward of Colchester. Editor of Essex County Standard
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Hervey Benham (1910-1987), his son. Author, particularly on marine topics. Editor of Essex County Standard
- Jane Benham MBE (c.1943 - 1992), his daughter, restorer of boats and associated
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Hervey Benham (1910-1987), his son. Author, particularly on marine topics. Editor of Essex County Standard
- Charles Edwin Benham (1860-1929) of Colchester, Essex, journalist, author (particularly Essex ballads, 1st ed., 1895), and experimenter. Younger son of Edward, creator of Benham's top. Editor of Essex County Standard
- Sir William Gurney Benham (1859-1944), elder son of the above, and his successor as proprietor of Benham & Co. Prolific author, High Steward of Colchester. Editor of Essex County Standard
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Edward Benham (d. 1869), son of the above and founder of Benham & Co., printers of Colchester, Essex. Editor of Essex County Standard
- Robert Benham (judge), Georgia Supreme Court Judge
- Captain Robert Benham, early American pioneer, member of First Ohio Legislature
Usage examples of "benham".
TWELVE Nancy's wristwatch indicated just three minutes after two, on Friday afternoon when Baer pulled his car up in front of the house on Benham Road.
A few minutes later Baer pulled the Toronado to a halt on the south side of Benham Road, opposite the house.
I remember meeting what's his-name--you know--chappie who writes plays and what not--George Benham--I remember meeting George Benham, and he told me she was rehearsing in a piece of his called--I forget the name, but I know it was called something or other.
Archie, transferring his gaze from the scenery outside the window, perceived that his friend, George Benham, the playwright, had materialised from nowhere and was now in his midst.
George Benham was a grave young man whose spectacles gave him the look of a mournful owl.
George Benham from their mind as having nothing to do with themselves, but Archie had never been made of this stern stuff.
As a matter of fact, jolly old Benham told me himself that he has the greatest esteem and respect for Percy, and wouldn't have kicked him for the world.
The house itself faced south, its irregular half-acre lot fronting on Benham Road, which cut west from Main to lose itself a few blocks farther west in residential meanders and cul de sacs.
As Ventris had already pointed out, Benham at no time of day sustained a very heavy flow of traffic, and the kids would not be running out of their yard directly into a busy highway.
Across Benham, the land sloped downhill into the large back yards of the next street's houses.
To the east on Benham, the nearest house was a contemporary four-bedroom-sized brick ranch.
TWO By the time he pulled the rented van off Benham Road Dan had gotten pretty well used to driving it.
After closing the front door it could still watch her through the small glass panels beside the door, and after that through the kitchen windows on the west side of the house as she moved down the edge of Benham Road and then across her own immaculate lawn to her front door.
Anyway he was not being taken back indoors but out for a stroll, on the grass border of Benham Road.
When he had reached the corner of Main and Benham it turned him southward for a block, walking the sidewalk slowly between the suburban lawns on his right and the four lanes of traffic on his left.