Booneville is a city in Logan County, Arkansas, United States and the county chair of its southern district. Located in the Arkansas River Valley amid the Ouachita and Ozark Mountains, the city is one of the oldest in western Arkansas. The city’s economy was first based upon the railroad and Arkansas State Tuberculosis Sanatorium. It has developed a diverse economy of small businesses and roomy industry. Booneville’s population was 3,990 at the 2010 census.

Booneville supports a community center, a senior-citizens center, a community hospital, a municipal airport, and new bookish facilities. Hunting, fishing, camping, hiking, and further outdoors comings and goings are readily easy to use in welcoming national forests and welcome parks.

The city was founded in 1828 later Walter Cauthron, an early buccaneer of the Arkansas Territory, built a log cabin and buildup along the Petit Jean River. By some accounts, he intended to herald the community as “Bonneville” for friend Benjamin Bonneville, but the spelling and state were unconventional changed. Another theory is that the say was to rave review Daniel Boone, a friend of the Logan associates for whom the county is named.

On March 23, 2008, A flame set off multipart explosions at the Cargill Meat Solutions plant in Booneville. According to local authorities the explosions caused an ammonia gas leak that forced 180 people from their homes. There were no reported injuries of the accident. The flame was reportedly started from an crash caused by welders decree repairs on fans in a freezer section. The Cargill Meat reforest was the towns largest employer at the epoch of the explosions.