Boom is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

Pickett County, Tennessee Pickett County is a County (United States), county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 5,001, making it the least populous county in Tennessee. Its county seat is Byrdstow ...

History

post office A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letter (message), letters and parcel (package), parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post o ...

called Boom was established in 1904, and remained in operation until 1955. The community was so named on account of a nearby

log boom A log boom (sometimes called a log fence or log bag) is a barrier placed in a river, designed to collect and or contain floating logs timbered from nearby forests. The term is also used as a place where logs were collected into booms, as at th ...

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Unincorporated communities in Pickett County, Tennessee Unincorporated communities in Tennessee {{PickettCountyTN-geo-stub