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is a town located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina, USA.
Boone is the county seat of Watauga County.
Boone is the home of Appalachian State University.
The town is named for famous pioneer and explorer Daniel Boone, and every summer since 1952 has hosted a outdoor amphitheatre portrayal of the life and times of its namesake.
Boone is located at (36.211364, -81.668657) and has an elevation of 3,266 feet (995.5 m) above mean sea level. An earlier survey gave the elevation as 3,332 ft and since then it has been published as having an elevation of 3,333 ft (1,016 m). Boone has the highest elevation of any town of its size (over 10,000 population) east of the Mississippi River. As such, the climate of Boone is a subtropical variant of the humid continental climate zone, closer to that of Northern New England or the upper Midwest than the South. During summer, high temperatures in Boone are typically 78 °F (25 °C) or below, noticeably cooler than the lowland areas to the east and south, and summers are also considerably less humid than in other parts of the Carolinas. However, winters are long, harsh, and cold, with frequent sleet and snowfall. Blizzard-like conditions are not unusual during most winters. Boone typically receives on average nearly 40 inches of snowfall annually, which is far higher than the lowland areas in the rest of North Carolina, which usually receive under 10 inches of snowfall annually on average.