Edge Rewrite
// HTMLRewriter · presentation

This page was redesigned at the edge.

Cloudflare fetched the original article and streamed it through HTMLRewriter to apply an entirely new visual system without rebuilding the source page.

// request.cf · coarse context

A page that knows where it met you.

Only coarse request metadata is shown. This demo does not display or persist visitor IP addresses.

Country
US
Cloudflare location
CMH
Connection
HTTP/2
Language
Not provided

Ray ID: a234666cff87a3ae

Jump to content

Talk:Boomtown

Page contents not supported in other languages.
Add topic
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Latest comment: 7 months ago by ELSchissel in topic Etymology

Needs more info

[edit]

This page needs more info. I had to write a report on this topic and couldn't find any information on it. I was kind of depending on wikipedia to give me some info but this is what i found--Lord nukka (talk) 20:43, 22 September 2008 (UTC)Reply

Well then, you sound like just the person to do this article justice! Come on, don't be shy. If you find some examples of boomtowns that aren't in the United States, you can help make this article less US-centric and more "world-view".--Metron4 (talk) 23:08, 26 September 2008 (UTC)Reply

Too many boomtowns

[edit]

The list of examples is too long. The list should not be used for every town that experienced a period of prosperity, but only for places that experienced such rapid growth that, for example, newcomers had to live in tents or sleep in the open air. There are a number of places, such as Aberdeen and Detroit that may not qualify as boomtowns in any but the loosest sense. Unless someone objects, I'd like to start weeding out questionable towns on the list - those whose wiki articles do not mention boomtown conditions. Plazak (talk) 19:04, 21 April 2010 (UTC)Reply

"freewheeling materialistic decadence" in "Dubai, UAE" entry

[edit]

What does that even mean? Neko Cherise Sapphire Star (talk) 11:30, 3 September 2023 (UTC)Reply

Etymology

[edit]

The contemporary author Hamlin Garland rejects the boom/bust etymology, claiming that the boomtown he grew up in was so named because""booms" or yards for holding pine logs laced the quiet bayou and supplied several large mills with timber." (Garland, "A Son of the Middle Border", Chapter 3.) ELSchissel (talk) 18:05, 23 December 2025 (UTC)Reply