Boon is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Wexford County in the U.S. state of Michigan.

As an unincorporated community, Boon has no legal autonomy of its own but does have its own post office with the 49618 ZIP Code.

[3][4] Prior to European settlement, the area that is now Boon was utilized by the Hopewell as a site for building mounds and circles, as well as for farming several species of corn, bean and squash.

[5] Boon was first settled as early as 1888 as a station on the Toledo, Ann Arbor, and Northern Michigan Railroad.

[6] The community of Boon was listed as a newly-organized census-designated place for the 2010 census, meaning it now has officially defined boundaries and population statistics for the first time.