Boone River
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The Boone River is a tributary of the Des Moines River in north-central Iowa in the United States. It is Template:Convert long<ref name=NHD>U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Template:Webarchive, accessed May 26, 2011</ref> and drains an area of Template:Convert.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Via the Des Moines River, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River.
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The Boone River rises near Britt in western Hancock County and flows generally southwardly through Wright, Hamilton and Webster counties, past Goldfield and Webster City.<ref name=DeLorme>DeLorme (1998). Iowa Atlas & Gazetteer. Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. Template:ISBN.</ref> It flows into the Des Moines River Template:Convert north of Boone.<ref>Columbia Gazetteer of North America entry for Boone River Template:Webarchive</ref>
Tributaries of the Boone River also drain portions of Kossuth and Humboldt counties.<ref name=DeLorme/> Two headwaters tributaries are known as the East Branch Boone River<ref>Template:Gnis</ref> and the Middle Branch Boone River.<ref>Template:Gnis</ref>
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources has designated the lower Template:Convert of the Boone River from Webster City to its mouth as a "Protected Water Area". This stretch of the river cuts through a wooded valley and allows canoeing and fishing for smallmouth bass, channel catfish, walleye, northern pike and flathead catfish.<ref>Iowa Department of Natural Resources. Water Trails: Boone River. Template:Webarchive</ref>