List of all cities and towns in Boone County
Boone County is in the state of Missouri in the United States.
The county seat is Columbia, Missouri’s fourth-largest city and home to the University of Missouri.
It is in the middle of Mid-Missouri. As of the 2020 census, there were 183,610 people living there.
This made it the eighth most populous county in the state. The county was made on November 16, 1820.
It was named after Daniel Boone, who had just died. Many of his relatives had moved to the Boonslick area in the 1810s via the Boone’s Lick Road.
The Columbia Metropolitan Area is made up of Boone County. Ashland and Centralia are the towns with the second and third most people in the county.
On November 16, 1820, a part of the territory’s Howard County became Boone County.
The area was called Boone’s Lick Country back then because Daniel Boone’s sons used a salt lick for their livestock.
The county has a total area of 691 square miles (1,790 km2), of which 685 square miles (1,770 km2) are land and 5.6 square miles (15 km2) (0.8%) are water, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
The southern edge of the county is the Missouri River.
Here is a list of cities, towns, places, and villages in Boone County, Missouri:
- Ashland
- Bourbon
- Browns
- Centralia
- Claysville
- Columbia
- Deer Park
- Easley
- Elkhurst
- Englewood
- Ginlet
- Hallsville
- Harg
- Harrisburg
- Hartsburg
- Hinton
- Huntsdale
- McBaine
- Middleton
- Midway
- Minnie
- Moores Switch
- Murry
- Oldham
- Pierpont
- Prathersville
- Providence
- Riggs
- Rileysburg
- Rocheport
- Rucker
- Sapp
- Shaw
- Stephens
- Sturgeon
- Switzler
- Turner
- Wilton
- Woodlandville