Welcome to Boon ...

Boon is located in Hill Country.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Boon, you might consider that their post office opened in 1882.

Time Zone: Boon lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Code for Boon: 830

Communities Also Named Boon ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 5 communities that are also named Boon - they are located in Kansas, Michigan, Mississippi, Ontario and Pennsylvania.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Boon.

Adding Boon to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Boon in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Boon was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

From that list, the Boon post office opened in 1882.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Boon.

Footnotes ...

<1>	If you're interested in how the shape of Texas' counties, including Blanco, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/