boomtown
boom town

A boomtown is a place that has very quick population and economic growth.

Its history, however, is primarily that of an oil boomtown.

Every decade has just made Vegas more of a boomtown than ever before.

Soon, there were enough people living in the boomtown to warrant a post office.

Overnight and against the odds, it has become a boomtown.

He went to Sacramento, then a boomtown, to live as a professional card player.

The city is modern with the air of an oil-country boomtown.

Las Vegas was still far from being the boomtown it would become.

Far from ever being a boomtown, Madison's central growth had been slow and cautious.

He is best known as the host of the long-running children's television show Boomtown.

"Boomtown Girl," about a young, provincial woman's search for a better life.

A bustling economy had turned Houston into a boomtown for the construction industry.

Through the late 1990s, Shanghai was the world's boomtown, rebuilding itself and growing at a rate far beyond that of any other major city.

During this construction period Colstrip was a boomtown, with a large increase in population.

Currently there are plans to renovate the boomtown into a small city.

Snyder became a boomtown as the population jumped to approximately 12,000 in just a years time.

Originally home to a bank, it was one of the largest commercial blocks built during the city's boomtown period.

This boomtown grew quickly from the late 19th century to the early 20th century.

So much has changed that it is being hailed as the nation's new Mexican boomtown.

When he discovered silver here in 1877, Tombstone became a boomtown.

He entered the boomtown of three thousand population in June 1883 and there met his future partner, who had arrived just two months earlier.

Earp moved constantly throughout most of his life from one boomtown to another.

Boomtown is the prairie town where the Edwards family now resides.

A boomtown, it grew quickly around the start of the 20th century, with outside investors and immigrants contributing to its success.