Benoit, Wisconsin
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|subdivision_name2 = Bayfield
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|subdivision_name3 = Keystone, Mason
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|timezone = Central (CST)
|utc_offset = -6
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|postal_code = 54816{{cite web|url=https://www.zipdatamaps.com/54816|title=Benoit ZIP Code|publisher=zipdatamaps.com|year=2022|access-date=November 11, 2022}}
|area_codes = 715 and 534
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Benoit is an unincorporated community in the towns of Keystone and Mason, Bayfield County, Wisconsin, United States.{{cite gnis|1578756|Benoit}} It is along County Highway F. Benoit is 13 miles southwest of the city of Ashland. Nearby is the junction of U.S. Highway 2 and U.S. Highway 63.{{cite web |url=http://wisconsin.hometownlocator.com/wi/bayfield/benoit.cfm |title = Benoit Populated Place Profile / Bayfield County, Wisconsin Data}}
History
The community was named for Antoine Benoit, a pioneer French settler.{{cite book|author=Chicago and North Western Railway Company|title=A History of the Origin of the Place Names Connected with the Chicago & North Western and Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railways|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OspBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA168|year=1908|page=168}} Other names before Benoit included Thirty Miles Siding, Peckville, Peck and Benoitville.{{cite book |last1=Gard |first1=Robert |title=The Romance of Wisconsin Place Names |date=2015 |publisher=Wisconsin Historical Society Press |location=Madison, WI |isbn=978-0-87020-707-5 |page=27 |edition=2nd}}
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Category:Unincorporated communities in Wisconsin
Category:Unincorporated communities in Bayfield County, Wisconsin
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