Boone County (Arkansas)

The Boone County is a county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas. The administrative headquarters ( County Seat) is Harrison. The county is one of the Dry counties, which means that the sale of alcohol is restricted or prohibited.

Geography

The County is located in the extreme north of Arkansas, bordered to the north Missouri and has an area of 1,559 square kilometers, of which 28 square kilometers of water surfaces. It is bordered by the following counties:

History

The Boone County was formed on April 9, 1869 from parts of Carroll County and the Madison County as 63 County and one of the first after the Civil War. It was named after Daniel Boone, an American pioneer and frontiersman who explored the so-called Wilderness Trail and the town of Boonesborough in Kentucky founded.

Demographic data

According to the census of 2000, there were 33 948 people in Boone County. Of these, 600 people were living in collective centers, the other inhabitants lived in 13,851 households and 9,861 families. The population density was 22 people per square kilometer. The racial the population was made ​​up of 97.60 percent White, 0.11 percent African American, 0.71 percent Native American, 0.32 percent Asian, 0.02 percent of residents from the Pacific Islander, and 0.34 percent from other races groups; 0.90 percent are descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 1.06 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Of the 13,851 households out of which 30.7 per cent of children or young people under the age of 18 who lived with them. 59.5 percent were married couples living together, 8.8 percent were single mothers, 28.8 percent were non-families. 25.6 percent of all households were single-person households, and 11.2 percent had someone living alone at the age of 65 years or older. The average household size was 2.41 and the average family size is 2.88 people.

23.9 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 8.2 percent between 18 to 24, 26.5 percent between 25 and 44, 24.7 percent between 45 and 64 and 16.7 percent were 65 years or older. The average age was 39 years. For every 100 females there were 93.1 males to every 100 females age 18 and over, there were an average of 89.7 males.

The median income for a household was $ 29,988, and the median income for a family $ 34,974. Males had a median income of $ 27,114, women $ 19,229. The per capita income was $ 16,175. 10.7 percent of families and 14.8 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Places in Boone County

Citys

• Diamond City
• Harrison

Towns

• Alpena1
• Bellefonte
• Bergman

• Everton
• Lead Hill
• Omaha

• South Lead Hill
• Valley Springs
• Zinc

1 - partly in Carroll County

• Batavia
• Bear Creek Springs
• Bellville
• Boone
• Burlington
• Capps
• Crawford
• Crest
• Cricket
• Dugger
• Elmwood
• Francis
• Gaither
• Grubb Springs
• Harmon
• Hopewell
• Keener
• Lick Branch
• Little Arkansaw
• Lowry
• New Hope
• Olvey
• Pleasant Ridge
• Prosperity
• Rally Hill
• Red Bank
• Ridgeway
• Self
• Sycamore
• Willis
• Winington
• Wooden Hills

Townships

• Batavia Township
• Bellefonte Township
• Blythe Township
• Bryan Township
• Carrollton Township
• Elixir Township
• Ewing Township
• Gaither Township
• Jackson Township
• Jefferson Township
• Lee Township
• Long Creek Township
• North Harrison Township
• Olvey Township
• Omaha Township
• Prairie Township
• South Harrison Township
• Sugar Loaf Township
• Summit Township
• Zinc Township