of families and 9.2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 14.1% of those under age 18 and 7.3% of those age 65 or over. Government The government consists of a mayor and a city council. The mayor is elected in citywide vote. The city council consists of five members. Four are elected from individual districts. One is elected at-large. Transportation The Boonville Airport is located two nautical miles (2.3 mi, 3.7 km) west of the central business district. Boonville also has the Warrick Area Transit System (WATS), a public bus line which connects with the nearby Metropolitan Evansville Transit System (METS). Education The town has a lending library, the Boonville-Warrick County Public Library. Notable people Louis A. Arnold – HVAC worker and Socialist Party of America Wisconsin State Senator Benoni S. Fuller – schoolteacher, sheriff, and Democratic state legislator and Congressman Barbara Maier Gustern - singer and vocal coach James A. Hemenway - lawyer, US Representative, US Senator Monte M. Katterjohn – screenwriter for 68 films between 1912 and 1931 Menz Lindsey – lawyer who was also a quarterback in the early National Football League for the Evansville Crimson Giants Philip Lutz, Jr. – 27th Indiana Attorney General (1933-37) W. Otto Miessner – composer and music educator Ken Penner – baseball pitcher who played Major League Baseball for two seasons (1916 and 1929) between decades of a minor league career that lasted through 1943 Dustin Ransom – musician, producer, vocalist, arranger, music transcriber, and film composer Rachel Rockwell – theatre director, choreographer, dancer and actor Robert G. Roeder - Professor at The Rockefeller University, pioneer scientist in eukaryotic transcription Jeremy Spencer – musician, songwriter and record producer, co-founder and drummer for heavy metal band Five Finger Death Punch Travis Williams – tailback in the National Football League's Evansville Crimson Giants References External links City website Cities in Indiana Cities in Warrick County, Indiana County seats in Indiana Evansville metropolitan area Communities of Southwestern Indiana