Boomer Township, Wilkes County, North Carolina

Boomer is a farming community located in Wilkes County, North Carolina. Legally it is a township, a non-governmental county subdivision. The population was 2,286 at the 2010 Census.^[1] The community was named after its first postmaster, Ed "Boomer" Matheson. The community was originally called Warrior Creek, after a stream which flows through the area. Boomer was the birthplace and home of James Larkin Pearson, a poet and newspaper publisher who served as North Carolina Poet Laureate from 1953 to 1981.

Geography

Boomer is located 36.067N, 81.253W. Boomer has an elevation of 1,243 feet above sea level. The community is located in the foothills of the Brushy Mountains, an isolated spur of the Blue Ridge Mountains to the west.

References

↑ "Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): Boomer township, Wilkes County, North Carolina". U.S. Census Bureau, American Factfinder. Retrieved November 6, 2012.

U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Boomer Township, Wilkes County, North Carolina

Coordinates: 36°04′02″N 81°15′13″W / 36.06722°N 81.25361°W / 36.06722; -81.25361

Municipalities and communities of Wilkes County, North Carolina, United States

County seat: Wilkesboro

Towns	Elkin‡ North Wilkesboro Ronda Wilkesboro

CDPs	Cricket Fairplains Hays Millers Creek Moravian Falls Mulberry Pleasant Hill

Unincorporated communities	Clingman Darby Ferguson McGrady Parsonsville Purlear Roaring River

Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

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