Booneville, KY

Booneville is a home rule-class city in Owsley County, Kentucky, in the United States. The 2020 census counted 168 residents. Booneville is the county seat of Owsley County. Booneville is located at the junction of Kentucky Route 11 and Kentucky Route 30 on the South Fork of the Kentucky River. Booneville has a lending library, the Owsley County Public Library. A newcomer can read Booneville through the overlap of its older landmarks, surrounding geography, and current places. For a newcomer, Booneville comes into focus through those concrete links among its past, landscape, and current routines. The town was originally named Moore's Station after its chief landowner. Booneville was renamed Boone's Station and then Booneville in honor of the American frontiersman, Daniel Boone.