Boone, North Carolina Boone Official logo of Boone Country United States State North Carolina Named for Daniel Boone Water 0 sq mi (0 km2) Boone is a town positioned in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, United States.
Boone's populace was 17,122 in 2010.
Boone is the governmental center of county of Watauga County and the home of Appalachian State University.
The town is titled for famous American pioneer and explorer Daniel Boone, and every summer since 1952 has hosted an outside amphitheatre drama, Horn in the West, portraying the British settlement of the region during the American Revolutionary War and featuring the contributions of its namesake.
It is the biggest improve and the economic core of the seven-county region of Western North Carolina known as the High Country.
In 2012, Boone was listed among the 10 best places to retire in the U.S.
1 Boone Boone as seen from Howard's Knob Boone took its name from the famous pioneer and explorer Daniel Boone, who on a several occasions camped at a site generally agreed to be inside the present town/city limits.
Boone was served by the narrow gauge East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad (nicknamed "Tweetsie") until the flood of 1940.
Boone is the home of Appalachian State University, a constituent member of the University of North Carolina.
Appalachian State is the sixth biggest university in the seventeen-campus system.
Caldwell Community College & Technical Institute also operates a satellite ground in Boone.
"Horn in the West", a dramatization of the life and times of the early pioneer of the mountain area, which features Daniel Boone as one of its characters, has been performed in an outside amphitheatre above the town every summer since 1952.
The initial actor in the part of "Daniel Boone" was Ned Austin.
His "Hollywood Star" stands on a pedestal on King Street in downtown Boone.
He was followed in the part by Glenn Causey, who portrayed the rugged frontiersman for 41 years, and whose image is still seen in many of the depictions of Boone featured in the region today.
Boone is a center for bluegrass musicians and Appalachian storytellers.
Notable artists associated with Boone include the late, Grammy Award-winning bluegrass guitar player Doc Watson and the late guitarist Michael Houser, beginning member of and lead guitarist for the band Widespread Panic, both Boone natives, as well as Old Crow Medicine Show, The Blue Rags, and Eric Church.
The Blair Farm, Daniel Boone Hotel, Jones House, John Smith Miller House, and US Post Office-Boone are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Boone is positioned at 36 12 41 N 81 40 7 W (36.211364, 81.668657) and has an altitude of 3,333 feet (1015.9 m) above sea level.
Boone has the highest altitude of any town of its size (over 10,000 population) east of the Mississippi River.
As such, Boone features, depending on the isotherm used, a oceanic climate (Koppen Cfb), or a humid continental climate (Koppen Dfb), a rarity for the Southeastern United States, and straddles the boundary between USDA Plant Hardiness Zones 6 - B and 7 - A; the altitude also results in enhanced precipitation, with 52.7 inches (1,340 mm) of average annual precipitation.
The daily average temperature in January is 31.2 F ( 0.4 C), which gives Boone a winter climate more similar to coastal southern New England clean water the Southeast, where a humid subtropical climate dominates.
Summers are warm, but far cooler and less humid than lower regions to the south and east, with a July daily average temperature of 68.5 F (20.3 C). Boone typically receives on average nearly 35 inches (89 cm) of snow flurry annually, far higher than the lowland areas in the rest of North Carolina.
Climate data for Boone, North Carolina (0) 0 Average snowy days ( 0.1 in) 4.5 4.0 2.2 1.3 0 0 0 0 0 0.1 0.8 3.2 16.2 The average homehold size was 1.97 and the average family size was 2.63. Both the overall age distribution and the median age are driven by the existence of the small-town university, Appalachian State.
However, poverty statistics that are based on surveys of the entire populace can be extremely misleading in communities dominated by students, such as Boone.
Boone is mainly served by three small-town newspapers: A lesser newspaper, The Appalachian, is Appalachian State University's ground newspaper; it is presented twice a week on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
WWMY 102.3 FM is an Adult Contemporary airways broadcast, mostly music, also University of North Carolina Tar Heels sports network, and Carolina Panthers football.
WASU 90.5 FM is a college airways broadcast run from the Appalachian State University campus.
WFDD 88.5 FM NPR Affiliate a noncommercial enhance airways broadcast from Wake Forest University broadcasts an additional signal for the North Carolina High Country at 100.1 FM Boone operates under a mayor-council government.
Industrial, commercial, and residentiary evolution in the town of Boone is a controversial copy due to its locale in the mountain peaks of Appalachia.
On October 16, 2009, the town council accepted the "Boone 2030 Land Use Plan." While the document itself is not in any way actual law, it is used by the town council, board of adjustment, and other committees to guide decision making as to what types of evolution are appropriate. In 2009, the North Carolina Department of Transportation began widening 1.1 miles of U.S.
194 (Jefferson Road), including a new entrance and exit to the new Watauga High School, at a cost of $16.2 million. The widening has displaced 25 businesses and 63 residences east of historic downtown King Street. The universal was slated to be instead of by December 31, 2011, but assembly continued into the spring of 2012.
Samaritan's Purse is based in Boone.
1 Appalachian State University 1,000+ 7 Town of Boone 100-249 Appalachian State University Daniel Boone Native Gardens Doc Watson sculpture in downtown Boone A History of Watauga County, North Carolina.
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Enumeration of Population and Housing".
"WFDD in the High Country on 100.1".
"Boone 2030 Land Use Plan PDF" (PDF).
Town of Boone CAFR[permanent dead link] Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Boone (North Carolina).
Digital - NC: Historic Boone Historical Boone Photos, Postcards, and Paper Municipalities and communities of Watauga County, North Carolina, United States State of North Carolina
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