Monticello and the San Juan County area experienced significant growth during the uranium boom of the 1950s.

This period marked the end of the first uranium boom and saw the number of operating mines drop to four.

This lodge had been built for the rough-and-tumble uranium boom, not the genteel fat-tire one.

It saw heavy use during the uranium boom of the 1950s.

Like the radium and vanadium booms before it, the latest uranium boom was largely over.

Had Canyonlands been created a decade earlier Utah would have missed out on the economic benefits of the uranium boom.

How did the uranium boom relate to the cold war?

By the early 1960s, however, the demand had eased, and the uranium boom faded.

The uranium boom brought new motels, cafes, stores, schools, and businesses to Moab.

The town, on the site of an old Ojibwa village, owes its existence to the postwar uranium boom.