boom town

Marysville was a gold rush boom town, more populous in 1860 than any other city in the state except for San Francisco and Sacramento.

Laukkaing took on the character of a Wild West boom town, where anything goes and anything can be bought and sold.

Reminiscent of a frontier boom town, the human-built industrial port refines fossil fuels at a relentless pace.

Since the 1980s, hundreds of thousands of the plants have been removed to make way for renewable energy facilities or housing and shopping centers in desert boom towns such as Lancaster and Palmdale.

Work in the mines was always grueling, but in the heyday of coal, it made for a glittering strand of little mountain boom towns.