Septic records and services in Benton, Wisconsin

In Lafayette County, Wisconsin, which covers Benton, we have measured 4,561 parcels on septic and 3,678 on sewer. That is a county measurement. We do not hold a septic count for Benton on its own and this page does not estimate one.

What Benton is, in the records

Benton is a village in Lafayette County, Wisconsin. The Census Bureau puts its internal point at 42.570006, -90.38345 and its land area at 0.84 square miles. Septic permitting and record keeping happen at the county level, not the village level, which is why every figure below is attributed to the county and linked back to the county page it came from.

What we hold for the county that covers Benton

We have not yet collected septic documents from Lafayette County, Wisconsin, so for a Benton property the county's own file is currently the only route. This page is about getting you to it, not about pretending we hold something we do not. The county is genuinely mixed: 4,561 of 8,239 classified parcels are on septic and the rest are sewered. Which side of that line a Benton address falls on is worth establishing before anything else. We have not found a published online records portal for this county, which means the file is requested from the county directly rather than searched.

Start from who you are

Septic is one subject with very different jobs inside it. These go straight to the page that does yours.

Questions people ask

Does Parcel Perfect have a septic count for Benton?

No. We measure septic and sewer at parcel level and roll it up by county. In Lafayette County, Wisconsin, which covers Benton, we have measured 4,561 parcels on septic and 3,678 on sewer. That is a county measurement. We do not hold a septic count for Benton on its own and this page does not estimate one.

Which county is Benton in?

Benton is in Lafayette County, Wisconsin.

Records and services around Benton

• Lafayette County septic records — what we hold, and where the county keeps the originals
• Wisconsin septic regulations — the rules that actually bind here, which no page on this site restates from memory
• Wisconsin septic records index

ZIP codes that overlap Benton

From the Census ZCTA-to-place relationship file, with the share of Benton’s land area that falls in each. A ZIP is not a place boundary and the two only ever partly agree, which is exactly why both pages exist.

• ZIP 53803 (100% of the village)

Nearest other places

Straight-line distance from the Census internal point of Benton.

• Cuba City — 3.4 mi
• Hazel Green — 3.6 mi
• Shullsburg — 7.6 mi
• Kieler — 11.3 mi
• Dickeyville — 11.5 mi
• Platteville — 11.7 mi
• Belmont — 11.9 mi
• Sandy Hook — 12.0 mi
• Darlington — 15.3 mi
• Tennyson — 17.5 mi
• Gratiot — 18.3 mi
• Potosi — 18.3 mi
• Rewey — 18.8 mi
• Wiota — 22.6 mi
• Mineral Point — 22.7 mi
• Livingston — 22.9 mi
• Linden — 24.7 mi
• Lancaster — 25.2 mi
• South Wayne — 25.8 mi
• Woodford — 27.3 mi
• Cobb — 27.5 mi
• Montfort — 27.7 mi
• Argyle — 27.8 mi
• Edmund — 28.0 mi
• Browntown — 30.2 mi
• Dodgeville — 30.2 mi
• Hollandale — 31.1 mi
• Blanchardville — 31.3 mi

Get the septic design for a property here

Parcel Perfect generates a code-shaped septic design and as-built style drawing for a parcel from the records and site data we hold, and shows every parcel we have classified as septic or sewer on one map. Both are open to use for any parcel in Lafayette County, Wisconsin.

Open the parcel map and design tool