Benton is a town in Lafayette County, Wisconsin, United States.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 28.0 square miles (72.5 km2), all of it recorded as land.

Before the town of Benton was settled, Indians of the Pottawatomie and Winnebago tribes would pass through its modern boundaries.

[4] Though Europeans passed through and visited the region, threats from the Indians kept the area from being permanently settled until Andrew Murphy, along with his wife Catherine, five sons, a French voyageur named Francois and a servant named Peggy, established a homestead in the area that is now the town of Benton in 1827.

Though no one settled for several years after the Murphy party, the relative safety after the conclusion of the Black Hawk War and the prosperity promised by the rich lead deposits brought large numbers of settlers.

[6] Benton has long since moved from the extractive economy of mining to one based in agriculture and modern business.