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Boon is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Boon Township in Wexford County, in Michigan's northern Lower Peninsula.

Boon was first settled as early as 1888 as a station on the Toledo, Ann Arbor, and Northern Michigan Railroad, and the community was platted in 1889.

Boon received its first post office on December 19, 1899, and the community still has its own post office with the 49618 ZIP Code.

Long before European settlement, the Boon area was used by the Hopewell people as a site for building mounds and circles and for farming corn, beans and squash.

The Boon area lay along the Old Indian Trail, the historic route that connected the Cadillac area with the Traverse City area.

Boon counted just 90 residents at the 2020 census, down sharply from 167 at the 2010 census, while surrounding Boon Township had 650 residents in 2020.

The Boon CDP covers only 0.84 square miles of land at an elevation of about 1,378 feet, giving it a population density of roughly 107 people per square mile.

Boon was first given officially defined boundaries when it was listed as a newly organized census-designated place for the 2010 census.

Children in Boon are served by two different districts: Cadillac Area Public Schools in Cadillac to the southeast and Mesick Consolidated Schools in Mesick to the northwest.