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Boonville

Ghost town · Polk County, Tennessee

Isabella quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1936, 1:24,000)
Isabella quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1936, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Boonville is a ghost town in Polk County, Tennessee. It is one of 7 former communities in Polk County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 37th among the 86 Tennessee counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Boonville as a historical populated place on the Isabella topographic quadrangle: the name is no longer in official use for a community, whether the settlement was abandoned, absorbed into a neighbouring town or renamed. The recorded location is 35.0548° N, 84.3730° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleIsabella
Elevation1,732 ft
Nearest living townDucktown, TN
Distance to it1.5 miles
GNIS feature ID1640651
Coordinates35.05480, -84.37298

Open the location on a map

Then and now

Drag the slider: the old USGS map on the left, the same ground from the air today on the right. Both cover the same 1.9-mile square centred on the recorded location.

Boonville today, aerial view
Isabella quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1936, 1:24,000)

Left: Isabella quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1936, 1:24,000), U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection. Right: The same ground today: NAIP aerial imagery, USDA Farm Service Agency, National Agriculture Imagery Program (via USGS). Both public domain.

What's there now

Boonville is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Ducktown, TN (population 470), about 1.5 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 1,732 feet above sea level. The aerial view above shows what covers the ground today. Much of the land around former townsites is private; check access before you visit.

Nearby places

Questions

Where is Boonville?

Boonville is in Polk County, Tennessee, at 35.0548, -84.3730.

How many ghost towns are in Polk County?

Polk County, Tennessee has 7 ghost towns on record at Wayfarrow.

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Facts marked "approximately" carry an uncertain date in the source. Text on this page is generated from the sources above; no encyclopedia prose is copied. Last updated 2026-11-06.