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is a city in Logan County, Arkansas, United States, and the county seat of its southern district. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 4,117.
Booneville sits comfortably nestled in the Arkansas River Valley between the Ouachita and Ozark Mountains.
Booneville supports a community center, a senior citizens center, a community hospital, a municipal airport and new school facilities. Hunting, fishing, camping, hiking and other outdoors activities are readily available in nearby national forests and state parks.
Booneville can be easily found at the intersection of State Highways 10 and 23
From its early days, Booneville has supported education. In 1874, as a response to needs for higher learning in western Arkansas, the Fort Smith District of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, authorized the establishment of the Fort Smith District High School in Booneville, forty miles to the west. Local church members donated the land, building materials and labor. The school, located on South College Street, was to be supported by student tuitions. Students came from towns all over western Arkansas to board with Booneville families and attend a school that offered an advanced curriculum, including Latin, German, advanced mathematics, literature and music. The school functioned until the early 1900s.
After the school closed, a group of residents and business leaders formed the Booneville Education Association and acquired of land in the northwest part of town. The new school was called the Booneville Co-Educational Institute and also offered a more advanced curriculum than the public school around. Graduates were admitted as sophomores at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.
In 1920, state funds were made available for the support of public high schools and the school's property was transferred to the Booneville school system. The building continued to be used as the city's high school until a new building was built in 1929. The old Co-Educational Institute building was used as the Booneville elementary school for several decades after that.