Boos lies between the Hunsrück and the North Palatine Uplands on the river Nahe, southeast of Bad Sobernheim.

[4] The village of Boos arose on a flood-free point bar on the Nahe on a low terrace north of that river on a brook.

This estate also included a holding in Boos that Kuno von Böckelheim and his wife, who had been Archbishop of Mainz Willigis’s (995–1011) regents, had donated to their young charge in 976.

Beginning in 1798, Boos belonged to the administrative unit of Sobernheim, which in 1815 passed to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1815, within which it was grouped into the new Bad Kreuznach district the following year.

On the other hand, Boos's own website suggests another derivation, from the archaic word bozen, which meant “hit” or “strike”.

The basis for believing this is that on the slopes northwest of the village were once found many sandstone quarries, where of course stone was struck with hammers or pickaxes.

After a thorough restoration and the reconstruction (or new construction) of the Backes in 2009 and 2010, the Boos town hall took on a new shine and afforded the local people the opportunity to revive the traditional communal baking at the old bakehouse's oven.

The unpaid work, especially, done by many citizens – foremost among them Rüdiger Franzmann, Berthold Schick, Horst and Karl Weyrich – but also contributions made by the state within the framework of village renewal, made it possible to create this gem on the village's Denkmalinsel (“monumental island”, although it is not geographically an island).