Boone County, Missouri
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The Boone County Courthouse at the Boone County Government Complex
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 Location in the U.S. state of Missouri |
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 Missouri's location in the U.S. |
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| Founded | November 16, 1820 | |
| Named for | Daniel Boone | |
| Seat | Columbia | |
| Largest city | Columbia | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 691 sq mi (1,790 km2) | |
| • Land | 685 sq mi (1,774 km2) | |
| • Water | 5.6 sq mi (15 km2), 0.8% | |
| Population (est.) | ||
| • (2015) | 174,974 | |
| • Density | 237/sq mi (92/km²) | |
| Congressional district | 4th | |
| Time zone | Central: UTC-6/-5 | |
| Website | www |
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| Elected countywide officials | ||||
| Assessor | Tom Schauwecker | Democratic | ||
| Circuit Clerk | Christy Blakemore | Democratic | ||
| County Clerk | Wendy S. Noren | Democratic | ||
| Collector | Brian McCollum | Democratic | ||
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Commissioner (Presiding) |
Dan Atwill | Democratic | ||
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Commissioner (District 1) |
Fred Parry | Republican | ||
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Commissioner (District 2) |
Janet Thompson | Democratic | ||
| Prosecuting Attorney | Dan Knight | Democratic | ||
| Public Administrator | Sonja Boone | Democratic | ||
| Recorder | Nora Dietzel | Democratic | ||
| Sheriff | Robert Dwayne Carey | Democratic | ||
| Treasurer | Tom Darrough | Democratic | ||
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| 2008 Republican primary in Missouri | ||
| John McCain | 4,948 (31.26%) | |
| Mike Huckabee | 3,838 (24.25%) | |
| Mitt Romney | 5,688 (35.94%) | |
| Ron Paul | 1,047 (6.62%) | |
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| 2008 Democratic primary in Missouri | ||
| Hillary Clinton | 9,601 (36.92%) | |
| Barack Obama | 15,750 (60.57%) | |
| John Edwards (withdrawn) | 396 (1.52%) | |
Boone County is a county in the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2010 census, the population was 162,642; a 2015 estimate put the population at 174,974, making it the state's seventh-most populous county. Its county seat is Columbia, Missouri's fourth-largest city. The county was organized November 16, 1820 and named for Daniel Boone.
Boone County comprises the Columbia, MO Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The University of Missouri is in Columbia.
Boone County was organized November 16, 1820, from a portion of the territorial Howard County. The area was then known as Boone's Lick Country, because of a salt lick which Daniel Boone's sons used for their stock.
Boone County was settled primarily from the Upper South states of Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia. The settlers brought slaves and slave-holding with them, and quickly started cultivating crops similar to those in Middle Tennessee and Kentucky: hemp and tobacco. Boone was one of several counties settled by Southerners to the north and south of the Missouri River. Because of its culture and traditions, the area became known as Little Dixie, and Boone County was at its heart. In 1860 slaves made up 25 percent or more of the county's population, and Little Dixie was strongly pro-Confederate during the American Civil War.
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