Atkinson is an unincorporated community in Center Township, Benton County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.

[3] The site of Atkinson is home to the county's only junior/senior high school, Benton Central.

Atkinson was noted as one of the seven Benton County towns on the Big Four railway when Elmore Barce listed these seven towns in The History of Benton County, Indiana, from northwest to southeast: "Raub, Earl Park, Fowler, Swanington, Atkinson, Templeton and Otterbein.

[8] Despite its small size, during the 1920s, Atkinson was called a "thriving little village" in the Oxford (Indiana) Gazette.

[12] Despite its location on a major rail line, Atkinson's population remained small.