Welcome to Boom ...Boom is located in Pickett County<1>. While we don't have a date for the founding of Boom, you might consider that their post office opened in 1904. Boom is 960 feet [293 m] above sea level.<2>. Time Zone: Boom lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time Note: If you travel east from Boom (for example, toward Helenwood), you will leave Central Time and cross into the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT). Area Code for Boom: 931 Communities Also Named Boom ...Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Boom - it's located in Alabama. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Boom. Communities near Boom ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Boom.
To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy. We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Boom. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Boom. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Boom. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Boom. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Boom. See our Newspapers Page for Boom. TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Boom ...Looking for more information about Boom? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions. While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Boom, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Boom. Adding Boom to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Boom in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page. From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for Boom was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4> For more details, see References and Mentions for Boom. Footnotes ...
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