It’s been nearly a decade since the Bantam Jeep Heritage Festival became Butler’s signature event, and the shine still hasn’t worn off.

If you needed proof of that, the best thing would have been to stroll down Main Street last Friday, when a capacity crowd of 1,200 Jeeps and about 15,000 spectators took part in the city’s annual Jeep Invasion, according to information released Wednesday by festival organizers.

But in case you missed a weekend full of history, fun and — of course — all types of Jeeps, here’s a by-the-numbers rundown of who and what visited Butler this year during the Jeep festival:

A total of 24,639 people attended the weekend-long event this year

2,348 Jeeps were registered to participate in festival activities this year.

29.5 percent of those jeeps were participating in their first heritage festival.

11 percent have attended the festival since its inaugural year in 2011.

Jeeps from 30 states, Washington, D.C., and Ontario and Quebec, Canada, were represented at this year’s festival.

The most popular Jeep model at this year’s festival by far was the Wrangler JK, which made up 53 percent of registered Jeep models.

The rarest was the Wrangler JL or 2018 JK, which accounted for just 2 percent of registered Jeeps at the festival.

All those Jeeps and spectators combine to put on a spectacle you won’t find anywhere else in the world. It’s a celebration of Butler’s history as the birthplace of one of the most iconic American-made vehicles ever produced.

We should also mention that organizers — most recently the Friends of Bantam Jeep Association, which in 2015 took over the event for the county tourism and convention bureau — manage to put on this spectacular show with little-to-no problem. It’s a family-friendly atmosphere that gild’s Butler’s lily rather than trashing our city. That’s no small feat.

The group’s good work goes beyond the absence of negative side-effects. For the past two years the association has donated tens of thousands of dollars in proceeds from the festival to nonprofit and civic organizations throughout the county.

For that, and for continuing to honor and promote the heritage of Butler, we thank the volunteers, Jeep enthusiasts and everyone who gives their time and effort every year to ensure that tens of thousands of people get to enjoy our city and county.