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Bennet is a village in southeastern Lancaster County, Nebraska, in the Lincoln metropolitan area — note the spelling: Bennet with a single final "t."

Bennet was founded on July 29, 1871, when the Midland Pacific Railway extended its Lincoln-to-Nebraska City line to a new station built on land owned by William Roggenkamp.

The station was originally named Bennett's Station, with two t's, for John Bennett, an officer of the Midland Pacific Railway, though the community's name was later shortened to Bennet.

Bennet was incorporated on October 1, 1881.

By the early 1900s Bennet had become a prosperous commercial and social center for its corner of Lancaster County, at a time when Lincoln itself was still relatively small.

The Great Depression hit Bennet hard, closing businesses and driving residents away to find work in cities, and its population drifted down for decades.

Bennet has boomed as a Lincoln commuter village in recent years: the 2020 census counted 1,082 residents, a jump of 50.5 percent from 719 in 2010.

The 2020 census counted 379 households and 287 families in Bennet.

The village covers just over half a square mile, about 0.52 square miles of land along Nebraska Highway 43 southeast of Lincoln.