Boone

Formed March 11, 1847 (37^th county)

Boone County (21,807), Madison (2,909)

The masonry Neo-Classical and Beaux Arts structure was erected in 1921 on a square at State Street, B Avenue, Court Street, and C Avenue.  State Street is West Virginia State Highway 85 in the town.  Harry Rus Warne provided the building designs.  It features a tower with veteran memorials on the grounds.  An 1865 courthouse was also in Madison.  The county was established on March 11, 1847 from parts of Kanawha, Cabell, and Logan counties as the 37^th county and Madison has always been the county seat.  The county is named for American frontiersman Daniel Boone.  Madison was named for settler William Madison Peyton. 

Boone County government consists of a sheriff and 3 Commissioners.  Two Circuit Court Judges, Two Family Court Judges and Two Magistrate Court Judges serve Boone and Lincoln counties.  The county is in the southwest part of West Virginia.  Charleston, West Virginia is north and Huntington, West Virginia is northwest of the county. 

The area of the county is 503 square miles.  It is 16 out of 55 in the state.  It ranks 29 out of 55 in population in the state.  It has a density of 43.4 persons per square mile making it 31 out of 55 in the state.  Boone County has 18.9% of its population in its incorporated areas.  United States Highway 119 enters the county from the north, Kanawha County, and exits to the southwest, Logan County.  The county center is 8.8 miles Southeast of Madison nearer Uneeda.  The county is surrounded clockwise by Kanawha, Raleigh, Wyoming, Logan, and Lincoln counties.  The county looks like a popped kernel of popcorn.  Madison is located in the western third of the county.  Madison is the county seat and the largest city.  It is 13.3% of the county population.  This county is in the Charleston Metropolitan Statistical Area.

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