Boone, Iowa Boone, Iowa Stoll Bottling Works Building in Boone Stoll Bottling Works Building in Boone Location of Boone, Iowa Location of Boone, Iowa County Boone Boone (/ bu n/ boon) is a town/city in Des Moines Township, and governmental center of county of Boone County, Iowa, United States. It is the principal town/city of the Boone, Iowa Micropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses all of Boone County.
This micropolitan statistical area, along with the Ames, Iowa Metropolitan Travel Destination comprise the larger Ames-Boone, Iowa Combined Statistical Area.
Map of the Boone region from 1908, showing the barns s and coal mines (shown in red) of the region.
Coal quarrying played an meaningful part in the early history of the Boone area.
Local blacksmiths were already quarrying coal from the banks of Honey Creek south of what became Boone in 1849.
Boone was platted as a town in 1865 by John Insley Blair.
The town was originally titled "Montana"; it was retitled to Boone in 1871. The close-by town of Boonesboro was also chartered in 1866; Boonseboro was took in to Boone in 1887. There were coal seams in the Boone area; the upper vein, about 3 feet thick, was always worked using longwall mining, while the lower vein was always mined using room and pillar mining. In 1912, United Mine Workers Local 869 in Boone had 554 members, close to 10% of the populace at the time. The first Casey's General Store was also established in Boone, Iowa in 1968.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 9.02 square miles (23.36 km2), all of it land. Ledges State Park is positioned four miles south of Boone and is a prominent destination.
There were 5,380 homeholds of which 29.4% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 47.3% were married couples living together, 9.7% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 3.9% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 39.1% were non-families.
23.5% of inhabitants were under the age of 18; 9.3% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 25% were from 25 to 44; 26.1% were from 45 to 64; and 16.2% were 65 years of age or older.
There were 5,313 homeholds of which 30.2% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 51.0% were married couples living together, 9.8% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 36.7% were non-families.
24.3% of the populace were under the age of 18, 9.5% from 18 to 24, 27.2% from 25 to 44, 21.4% from 45 to 64, and 17.6% who were 65 years of age or older.
About 5.4% of families and 8.4% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 10.9% of those under age 18 and 5.8% of those age 65 or over.
Boone is positioned on US Highway 30.
The initial Lincoln Highway ran through the center of town, but a new 4-lane highway was assembled in the late 1960s that bypassed the center of Boone to the south.
Boone is served by the mainline of the Union Pacific Railroad which purchased the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad (C&NW) in 1995.
Boone was a division and crew change point on the barns under the Chicago & Northwestern and some of that company remains today.
Boone was also the exact midpoint on the Fort Dodge, Des Moines & Southern Railroad, an electric interurban line converted to diesel in 1955 after a flood on the Des Moines River devastated the Fraser hydroelectric power plant that supplied power to the barns .
The part of the line to Fraser has been resurrected as the Boone and Scenic Valley Railroad, a tourist line.
Paul and Pacific Railroad also ran a branch line into Boone from the southeast.
Pufferbilly Days, an annual event celebrating Boone's barns heritage, is held the week after Labor Day and is one of Iowa's top five improve celebrations with over 30,000 attendees. Boone is also the site of the annual Farm Progress Show.
Back in the days when the show rotated from one farm to another in Iowa, Illinois and Indiana before the permanent sites were established at Boone, Iowa and Decatur, Illinois.
Vincenzo Miserendino's final and biggest statue of Theodore Roosevelt, which was eight times life-size was commissioned in 1941, and was scheduled to arrive in Boone, Iowa, in 1943.
Miserendino commented that Theodore Roosevelt himself would have allowed of that decision to put the service of the nation first. Later, in 1946, the Roman Bronze Corporation of Corona, New York City, produced the casting in Miserendino's initial mold. On January 6, 1948, it was placed in Mc - Hose Park. Residing on three large granite blocks, the 6' 3" statue depicts Roosevelt rising out of a mountainous landscape with his hand outstretched as if addressing a crowd.
Birthplace of First Lady Mamie Doud Eisenhower, 709 (formerly 718) Carroll Street, Boone, Iowa Eisenhower, was born in Boone.
Mamie Eisenhower Avenue, one of the chief east-west streets in Boone, is titled in her honor.
Norman Arthur Erbe, was a Republican Governor of Iowa from 1961 to 1963; he was born and resided in Boone Hap Moran, an All-American basketball player from Boone High School and New York Giants football star Ray Lyman Wilbur, third president of Stanford University, also United States Secretary of the Interior; born in Boone On July 25, 1924, Mc - Hose and his wife, Ella, gave nearly 200 acres of territory on the southwest side of Boone to the town/city for a park which is titled in their honor.
"Bird's eye view of the town/city of Montana, Boone Co., Iowa 1868".
Boone County, Iowa.
Lees, History of Coal Mining in Iowa, Chapter III of Annual Report, 1908, Iowa Geological Survey, 1909, pages 575 579.
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
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