page_title: Boomtown
section_title: United States
hierarchical_section_title: Boomtown / Examples / United States
caption_attribution_description: English: Portsmouth Square, San Francisco, California. Early daguerrotype. Signs in image include: California Restaurant, Book and Job Printing, Louisiana, Sociedad, Drugs &amp; Medicines Wholesale &amp; Retail, Henry Johnson &amp; Co, Alta California, Bella Union, A. Holmes. Français&#160;: Place de Portsmouth, San Francisco, Californie. Daguerrotype ancien. Les panneaux dans l'image incluent: California Restaurant, Book and Job Printing (imprimeur de livres et de cartes), Louisiana, Sociedad, Drugs &amp; Medicines Wholesale &amp; Retail (Médicaments, gros, détail) , Henry Johnson &amp; Co, Alta California, Bella &amp; Union, A. Holmes.
context_page_description: A boomtown is a community that undergoes sudden and rapid population and economic growth, or that is started from scratch. The growth is normally attributed to the nearby discovery of a precious resource such as gold, silver, or oil, although the term can also be applied to communities growing very rapidly for different reasons, such as a proximity to a major metropolitan area, huge construction project, or attractive climate.
context_section_description: Anderson, Indiana, automotive industry
  Atlanta, Georgia (rapidly rebuilt and became a commercial center in the years following the Civil War)
  Atlantic City, New Jersey resort boomtown, 1870-1940
  Basic City, Virginia, railroads and mining, 1880s-1900s
  Beaumont, Texas, oil
  Belleville, California, gold-mining boomtown, 1860-1870
  Birmingham, Alabama, coal and iron ore, 1880s
  Bodie, California
  Borger, Texas
  Buffalo, New York, shipping via Erie Canal, steel production, 1825-1890
  Burkburnett, Texas
  Butte, Montana, copper and other resources
  Caldwell, Kansas
  Central City, Colorado
  Chicago, Illinois, railroads, commodity resources, business
  Cincinnati, Ohio, trade, shipping
  Colstrip, Montana
  Columbia, California
  Cripple Creek, Colorado
  Deadwood, South Dakota
  Denver, Colorado
  Desdemona, Texas
  Detroit, Michigan rise of the automobile industry, 1910-1950
  Dodge City, Kansas
  El Paso, Texas
  Elkhart, Indiana recreational vehicle and manufactured housing industry
  Ellsworth, Kansas
  Endicott, New York (shoe manufacturing boomtown, 1900s-1920s)
  Fairbanks, Alaska, during the Klondike Gold Rush and the building of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline
  Gary, Indiana, steel
  Gillette, Wyoming
  Goldfield, Nevada
  Graysonia, Arkansas
  Guthrie, Oklahoma, oil
  Hancock, Michigan
  Harrisburg, Illinois
  Holyoke, Massachusetts, paper, silk and wool textiles, 1860-1914
  Houghton, Michigan
  Humble, Texas
  Idaho City, Idaho, gold rush, 1860s
  Jeffrey City, Wyoming
  Kilgore, Texas
  La Paz, Arizona, gold-mining boomtown, 1862-1864
  Leadville, Colorado
  Minneapolis, Minnesota Lumber Industry 1852-1880
  Newport, Wisconsin, sprang up because of a bridge expected to be built across the Wisconsin River there
  New Bedford, Massachusetts, whaling
  Nome, Alaska
  Odessa, Texas, oil
  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, steel, trade
  Pocatello, Idaho, railroad, 1870s-1920s
  Richland, Washington
  Rochester, New York, starting in the 1820s, with the opening of the Erie Canal
  Sacramento, California
  St. Joseph, Florida
  San Francisco, California, US settlement after winning Mexican War
  Salt Lake City, Utah
  San Luis, Arizona
  Seattle, Washington, became a prosperous port city during the Klondike Gold Rush in 1897 subsequently after its great fire which also brought in an influx of jobs and newcomers
  Sioux City, Iowa
  Tombstone, Arizona
  Texarkana, TX/AR
  Virginia City, Nevada, silver-mining boomtown, 1860s
  Wenatchee, Washington and other towns in the area are currently undergoing massive electrical infrastructure growth to support bitcoin mining due to the cheap local electricity
  Wentzville, Missouri
  Williston, North Dakota, oil
caption: San Francisco in 1851, during the heyday of the California gold rush.
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