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Fort Benning

United States Army post outside Columbus, Georgia, previously known as Fort Moore
Organization unincorporated_community Q1438462

Facts

12 properties

Identity

Instance of
unincorporated community, educational institution, garrison[9][10]
Official website
www.benning.army.mil, www.moore.army.mil, www.benning.army.mil[17]

Status and dates

Inception
1918[15]

Location

Country
United States[8]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 32.366°, -84.969°[16]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Columbus, Georgia, Muscogee County, Chattahoochee County, Marion County, Alabama, Russell County, Cusseta[2][3][4][5][6][7]
Postal code
31905, 31995[12][13]

Relations

Has part(s)
Martin Army Community Hospital[14]
More facts +4
Described by source
FortWiki[18]
Located in the statistical territorial entity
Fort Benning South
Name
Fort Benning, Fort Moore, Fort Benning[19]
Named after
Henry L. Benning, Hal Moore, Julia Compton Moore, Fred G. Benning[11]
🏷️ Also known as
en Fort Benning, Georgia en Fort Benning en Fort Moore en Fort Moore, Georgia de Fort Benning es Fuerte Benning (Georgia) es Fuerte Benning fa فورت بنینگ fr Fort Benning he מבצר בנינג he פורט בנינג it Forte Benning ja ベニング基地 ja フォート・ベニング ja フォート・ベニング基地 ko 베닝 군영 ko 베닝 요새 ko 캠프 베닝 ko 포트 무어 ko 포트 베닝
🔖 Identifiers · 21
VIAF cluster ID
139062115
Library of Congress authority ID
n81109250
GND ID
4492066-0
ArchINFORM location ID
27575
DPLA subject term
Fort Benning (Ga.)
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Fort-Moore
Freebase ID
/m/02cwk7
GNIS Feature ID
355875
GeoNames ID
4195789
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
2022914
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
fort-benning
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0431846
Show all 21 identifiers +9
Harper's tag
fort-benning-ga
MusicBrainz area ID
44548724-d1af-4a94-82ae-078bc25383d4
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007555166505171
New Georgia Encyclopedia ID
government-politics/fort-benning
OpenStreetMap relation ID
4829991
Quora topic ID
Fort-Benning-GA
U.S. National Archives Identifier
10040382
Who's on First ID
1126026281
Yale LUX ID
place/48d73ace-1484-41a0-8b74-1c4df852666d
📚 Sources · 1
  • GeoNames as of 2026-09-26 · 1 statement · CC BY 4.0 CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.

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Elevation above sea levelP2044
94 m 2026-09-26 P/PPL · US GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
where from?
Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
Bronze
1da92a6323a5fec3… admin1CodesASCII.txt +9 files
Transform
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CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
🔗 Connections
People born here 16
James Carville, Phil Gramm, Laura Jane Grace, Regan Burns, Brad Cox, Lewis Grizzard, Tracy Reed, Zach Wamp +8 more
Located in the administrative territorial entity 8
Alabama, Georgia, Columbus, Chattahoochee County, Marion County, Russell County, Muscogee County, Cusseta
Located in this place 4
75th Ranger Regiment, Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, 98th Training Division (IET), United States Army Sniper School
Instance of 2
garrison, educational institution
Named after 2
Hal Moore, Henry L. Benning
← Headquarters location 2
United States Army Infantry School, 98th Training Division (IET)
Contained subdivisions 1
Lawson Army Airfield
Country 1
United States
Described by source 1
FortWiki
Located in the statistical territorial entity 1
Fort Benning South
Located in time zone 1
Eastern Time Zone
Notable alumni 1
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
People who died here 1
Manton S. Eddy
Residents 1
Laura Jane Grace
← Place of burial 1
Willibald Borowietz
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Summary

Fort Benning is an unincorporated community[1].

🛰️ Living Edge · news-derived, source-cited

high ≥ 0.90 · emerging ≥ 0.65 · low below — calibrated against hand-rated truth (single-source .44 · two-source .62 · production-typical .70), so a band is a measurement, not a promise. High is rare by design: it needs both a supported assertion and an evidence sentence. A confirmed or contradicted chip is a Wikidata cross-check; no chip means Wikidata has no value for that property — the ordinary case here, and it says nothing either way. A confirm-only note marks a property whose check can never disagree (Wikidata's border and capital data is not exhaustive), so silence there is a limit of the check, not of the claim.

served-tier precision 80.7% [76.2, 84.5] · rated rows currently served n=342 · entailment-gated at 0.85 · measured 2026-09-29 · re-scored every 10 min, demoted at the half-hourly fold

Located in the administrative territorial entity Georgia high0.99contested28 independent sources

evidence “Radiant Industries at Fort Benning in Georgia;” adn.com · read source

Related Entities

Alabama Brad Cox FortWiki Georgia Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono United States United States Army Sniper School

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [8] ↑ . archINFORM. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [10] ↑ . benning.army.mil. Retrieved . benning.army.mil. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [2] ↑ . www2.census.gov. www2.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [4] ↑ . dot.ga.gov. dot.ga.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [5] ↑ . dot.ga.gov. dot.ga.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [6] ↑ . dot.ga.gov. dot.ga.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [7] ↑ . www2.census.gov. www2.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 5w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-10-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → fort-benning-ga
    Wikipedia languages → ['be', 'bg', 'commons', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'et', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'he', 'ht', 'i
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: fort-benning-ga, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289931074|fort benning ga (#289931074)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper'"
  2. 15w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-07-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Inception → —
    Official website → https://www.benning.army.mil/, https://www.moore.army.mil/, https://www.benning.army.mil/
    Instance of → —
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 32.366111111111, 'lon': -84.969166666667}
    + 15 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/43884|batch #43884]]: redundant value; it should not have a time zone."
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