Place:Boone, Watauga, North Carolina, United States

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NameBoone
Alt namesBoonsource: USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS37003439
TypeTown
Coordinates36.211°N 81.669°W
Located inWatauga, North Carolina, United States
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Boone is a town in and the county seat of Watauga County, North Carolina, United States. Located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina, Boone is the home of Appalachian State University and the headquarters for the disaster and medical relief organization Samaritan's Purse. The population was 19,092 at the 2020 census.

The town is named for famous American pioneer and explorer Daniel Boone, and every summer from 1952 (except 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic) has hosted an outdoor amphitheatre drama, Horn in the West, portraying the British settlement of the area during the American Revolutionary War and featuring the contributions of its namesake. It is the largest community and the economic hub of the seven-county region of Western North Carolina known as the High Country.

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