Williston: It's Official -- "Boomtown, USA"

California has its surfing capital, USA: Huntington Beach.

New York state has its Big Apple.

Now the US has it's official "Boomtown."

The Dickinson Press is reporting:

The city in the heart of western North Dakota's booming Oil Patch has a new brand — “Boomtown USA.”

The Williston Convention and Visitor's Bureau unveiled the theme on Thursday.
The city has some of its earliest roots as a boomtown, when the fur trading business exploded in 1828. That also is the year when Fort Union opened its doors. It was a fur-trading post along the Missouri River in northwestern North Dakota for much of the 19th century, and now is a national historic site.

The oil boom and its promise of jobs has drawn people from around the country to Williston. The U.S. Census bureau estimates that the city's population has grown from 14,700 in 2010 to 26,700, and a city-sponsored study done by North Dakota State University concluded that the number could be as high as 33,000.

If only Mark Twain or HST could be around.