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Cowtown is a boomtown with 978,468 residents, climbing one spot in the charts, according to recent Census data.
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Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 June 2024
The 19th-century silver-mining boomtown was filled with more than 100 saloons, a bowling alley, and even an opera house.
—Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 17 June 2024
The director revels in the frantic bustle of the Oklahoma boomtown of Fairfax where most of the film is set — a world of fast, shiny cars, hollering cowboys, and seemingly endless oil fields.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2024
But in the 1800s, miners, ranchers and homesteaders moved into the Mojave, building ephemeral boomtowns like Barnwell and Vanderbilt.
—Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2024
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Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 June 2024
The 19th-century silver-mining boomtown was filled with more than 100 saloons, a bowling alley, and even an opera house.
—Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 17 June 2024
The director revels in the frantic bustle of the Oklahoma boomtown of Fairfax where most of the film is set — a world of fast, shiny cars, hollering cowboys, and seemingly endless oil fields.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2024
But in the 1800s, miners, ranchers and homesteaders moved into the Mojave, building ephemeral boomtowns like Barnwell and Vanderbilt.
—Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2024
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“Boomtown.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boomtown. Accessed 2 Jul. 2024.
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boomtown
noun
boom·town
ˈbüm-ˌtau̇n 
: a town experiencing a sudden growth in business and population
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