Boone is a town in and the county seat of Watauga County, North Carolina, United States.  Located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina, Boone is the home of Appalachian State University and the headquarters for the disaster and medical relief organization Samaritan's Purse.  The population was 17,122 at the 2010 census.
The town is named for famous American pioneer and explorer Daniel Boone, and every summer, other than 2020, from 1952 has hosted an outdoor amphitheatre drama, Horn in the West, portraying the British settlement of the area during the American Revolutionary War and featuring the contributions of its namesake.  It is the largest community and the economic hub of the seven-county region of Western North Carolina known as the High Country.


Boone was founded by European Americans in the 18th century as an outpost settlement. Before the arrival of white settlers, the area was part of Cherokee territory. The Watauga Association (1772–76) and other settlements along what became known as the "Watauga River" were established by pioneers primarily from Virginia and Pennsylvania who had begun arriving in 1771; they were also joined later by immigrants from Maryland, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina.

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