1211 SE Marshall St
Boone, IA 50036

Near the geographical center of Iowa, Boone is a city in Des Moines Township and is the county seat of Boone County. With parts of the original Lincoln Highway running through it, Boone presents the picture of a big “little city.” Bounded by abundant parks and summer camping areas along the colorful Des Moines River, it is adjacent to some of Iowa’s richest farm lands. As far back as 1849, local blacksmiths were mining coal from the banks of Honey Creek, south of what would later become Boone. Boone was platted as a town in 1865 under the name “Montana” and incorporated the following year when the Chicago and North Western Transportation Company built a railroad there. In 1871 the name was changed to Boone. Pufferbilly Days, an annual event celebrating Boone’s railroad heritage, is held the week after Labor Day and is one of Iowa’s top five community festivals with over 30,000 attendees. In 2019, Boone won Insurify’s Best Up and Coming Housing Market award for the state of Iowa. Winners from each state were evaluated on metrics including home value growth, new construction, share of homeowners, trends in median sales price, and home value forecasts. Boone has an average household income of $46,749, future job growth of 33.14% (above the U.S. average), and an unemployment rate of 4.3% (below the U.S. average).