Booneville is a home rule-class city in Owsley County, Kentucky, in the United States.

The town was originally named Moore's Station after its chief landowner.

[4] During the Civil War, Booneville was a crossroads for various Union and Confederate regiments, and was threatened by Confederate guerrillas, but avoided the destruction that befell some other county seats of Kentucky during the war.

The Moyers Building in Boonesville was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

[5] According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.6 square miles (1.6 km2), all land.

There were 40.0% of families and 57.6% of the population living below the poverty line, including 92.7% of under eighteen and 11.8% of those over 64.