page_title: Benton County, Minnesota
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Benton County, Minnesota / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: Colored map shows native vegetation of area in and around the State of Minnesota DNR Sartell Wildlife Management Area. Wildlife Management Area is 368 acres on left / west side and top middle of map.
context_page_description: Benton County is a county in the East Central part of the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 38,451. Its county seat is Foley.
  Benton County is part of the St. Cloud, MN Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN-WI Combined Statistical Area.
context_section_description: The Mississippi River flows southeast along Benton County's western border, and the Platte River flows south through the county's northwest corner, discharging into the Mississippi at the county's western border. The terrain consists of low rolling hills, wooded or devoted to agriculture. It generally slopes to the south and east, although its western portion slopes into the river valleys. The county's highest point is a small hill near the midpoint of the northern border, one mile (1.6 km) north of Brennyville, at 1,311' (399m) ASL. The county has a total area of 413 square miles (1,070 km²), of which 408 square miles (1,060 km²) is land and 4.8 square miles (12 km²) (1.2%) is water. It is the fifth-smallest county in Minnesota by land area and fourth-smallest by total area.
caption: Soils of Sartell WMA neighborhood
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