Boone County | |
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 Location within the U.S. state of Missouri | |
 Missouri's location within the U.S. | |
| Coordinates: 38°56′54″N 92°20′02″W / 38.9483°N 92.3339°W | |
| Country |  United States |
| State |  Missouri |
| Founded | November 16, 1820 |
| Named for | Daniel Boone (1734-1820) |
| Seat |  Columbia |
| Largest city | Columbia |
| Area | |
• Total | 691 sq mi (1,790 km2) |
| • Land | 685 sq mi (1,770 km2) |
| • Water | 5.6 sq mi (15 km2) 0.8% |
| Population (2020) | |
• Total | 183,610 |
| • Density | 270/sq mi (100/km2) |
| Time zone | UTC−6 (Central) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−5 (CDT) |
| Congressional district | 4th |
| Website | www |
Boone County is located in the U.S. state of Missouri. Centrally located the state's Mid-Missouri region, its county seat is in Columbia, which is Missouri's fourth-largest city and location of the University of Missouri. As of the 2020 U.S. Census, the county's population was listed as 183,610,[1] making it the state's eighth-most populous county. The county was organized November 16, 1820, removed from the former larger Howard County (now to the northwest) of the old federal Missouri Territory of 1812-1821, and named for the famous Western explorer and settler of Kentucky, then recently deceased Daniel Boone (1734-1820), whose kin largely populated the Boonslick area, having arrived in the 1810s on the Boone's Lick Road.[2]
Boone County comprises the Columbia Metropolitan Area. The towns of Ashland and Centralia are the second and third most populous towns in the county.
- ^ "2020 Population and Housing State Data". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved August 30, 2021.
- ^ Eaton, David Wolfe (1916). How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named. The State Historical Society of Missouri. pp. 211.