Boone County
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county in West Virginia, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- West Virginia
- Founded
- March 11, 1847
- Named after
- Daniel Boone
- Seat
- Madison
- Largest city
- Madison
- Total
- 503.19 sq mi (1,303.3 km )
- Land
- 501.53 sq mi (1,299.0 km )
- Water
- 1.66 sq mi (4.3 km )
- Estimate 2025
- 20,251
- Density
- 43.48/sq mi (16.79/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Congressional district
- 1st
- Website
- www .boonecountywv .org
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Boone County West Virginia : Boone County Community and Economic Developmen Corp.
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Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Daniel Boone
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Virginia
- Capital
- Madison
- Population
- 21809
- Area
- 1303
- Shares border with
- Logan County
- Official website
- www.boonecountywv.org
- Image
- Boone County Courthouse West Virginia.jpg
- Households
- 8691
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- Commons category
- Boone County, West Virginia
- topic's main category
- Category:Boone County, West Virginia
- inception
- 1847-03-11
- different from
- Boone County
- water as percent of area
- 0.3
- native label
- Boone County
- per capita income
- 23078
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Encyclopedic overview
Boone County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 21,809. Its county seat is Madison. Boone County is part of the Charleston, WV Metropolitan Statistical Area. Leading industries and chief agricultural products in Boone County include coal, lumber, natural gas, tobacco, and strawberries.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Boone County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.