Colorado's Boom Towns

23 October 2000 - 7:00am

Five boom towns in Colorado are among the top 20 fastest growing communities in the United States.

Census figures released today show Superior, Colorado was the fourth-fastest-growing city in the country in the past decade, surging 2,516 percent. It was the fastest-growing city in Colorado.Four other Colorado communities - Mountain Village, 768 percent; Pitkin, 309 percent; Severance, 300 percent; and Lone Tree, 298 percent - were in the nation's top 20.

Source: The Denver Post, October 20, 2000
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Its very unsuitability for an urban center justifies its current usage as a suburban or ex-urban pattern.