Boone is a Statutory Town located along the Arkansas River in Pueblo County, Colorado, United States. The town population was 305 at the 2020 United States Census. Boone was founded as Booneville during the Pikes Peak Gold Rush by Albert Gallatin Boone, a grandson of Daniel Boone. The Booneville, Colorado Territory, post office opened on Jan…Boone is a Statutory Town located along the Arkansas River in Pueblo County, Colorado, United States. The town population was 305 at the 2020 United States Census. Boone was founded as Booneville during the Pikes Peak Gold Rush by Albert Gallatin Boone, a grandson of Daniel Boone. The Booneville, Colorado Territory, post office opened on January 2, 1863. Boone was the first postmaster and for a brief time Indian agent to the Cheyenne and Arapaho. Colorado became a state on August 1, 1876. The name of the Booneville post office was shortened to Boone on December 5, 1891, and the Town of Boone was incorporated on September 22, 1956.
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