Boonesboro, Missouri

Unincorporated community in Missouri, U.S.

Boonesboro is a community in Howard County, Missouri, United States.^[1] It is located on Route 87 midway between Boonville and Glasgow in the historical Boone's Lick country.^[2]

The community was laid out in 1840 on the Boone's Lick Road and is named for frontiersman Daniel Boone.^[3]^[4]^[5] Boone's Lick State Historic Site is approximately two miles to the west on Missouri Route 187. The approximate population of the town is 150 citizens.^{[citation needed]}

References

^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Boonesboro, Missouri
^ Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, 1998, Delorme p.30 ISBN 0-89933-224-2
^ Eaton, David Wolfe (1916). How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named. The State Historical Society of Missouri. pp. 175.
^ Ramsay, Robert L. (1952). Our Storehouse of Missouri Place Names. University of Missouri Press. p. 22. ISBN 9780826205865.
^ Earngey, Bill (1995). Missouri Roadsides: The Traveler's Companion. University of Missouri Press. p. 21. ISBN 9780826210210.