Boaz is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

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, United States. Boaz is part of the

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Metropolitan Statistical Area. The community is located approximately seven miles southwest of Nixa and is about five miles east of

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. A post office called Boaz was established in 1893, and remained in operation until 1914. The community derives its name from

Boaz Boaz (; Hebrew: בֹּעַז ''Bōʿaz''; ) is a biblical figure appearing in the Book of Ruth in the Hebrew Bible and in the genealogies of Jesus in the New Testament and also the name of a pillar in the portico of the historic Temple in Jeru ...

, a figure in the Hebrew Bible.

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