Boulder City

Boulder City is a town in the Mojave Wasteland. Boulder City was formerly a functioning town but was destroyed by the NCR during the First Battle of Hoover Dam. Normally Boulder City acts as a mill town in which all the concrete mixing workers live at, but as of now, Boulder City is a practical ghost town with one permanent resident since Deathclaws stopped production of limestone from Quarry Junction.

Background
Boulder City began its life as a federal company town, established in 1931 by the Bureau of Reclamation and Six Companies, Inc. to house the workers contracted to build the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River. The town replaced the collection of ramshackle tents and sheds established along the river since the beginning of the Dam's construction in 1930. As a publicly owned company town, Boulder was carefully planned and built up as a model community under Saco Rienk de Boer, a Dutch-born urbanist. Although his plan was ultimately rejected due to the projected costs, Boulder City was nevertheless heavily inspired by his work and designed to house around five thousand workers. Entrepreneurs had to be vetted by the Bureau of Reclamation in order to set up shop within the town and any visitors had to enter the town with a special permit. Since it was also founded during the Prohibition, alcohol was naturally banned within city limits. The city would not be incorporated until later in the century, and would remain relatively small and contained, like the nearby Henderson.

A peripheral town by the late 21st century, Boulder City survived the Great War almost unscathed and became a frontier, sleepy town functioning until 2277 and the First Battle of Hoover Dam. Vacated by its denizens, the town was packed with high explosives and used as a booby trap against the Legion's primary force. When Caesar's forces entered the town, lured in by Chief Hanlon's battle plan, the town exploded around them. For the price of a town, the NCR broke the back of the Legion's offensive and threw it back across the Colorado. A memorial to the NCR soldiers who fell during the battle was placed at the western end of town, near the main entrance.

Nearly the entire town was leveled in the battle, sparing only the concrete mixing yard near the Boulder City train station and the Big Horn Saloon. In the following years, the ruins became a stopover town for caravans resting at the Saloon and a source of concrete for the NCR's fortifications built up and down the Colorado, produced using limestone shipped in by train from Quarry Junction. However, because of the recent Deathclaw infestation at Quarry Junction, limestone mining has ground to a halt which has in turn put a hold on deliveries and production of concrete. All the concrete workers that usually inhabit the town have wandered off leaving only Ike, the bartender of the town saloon, as the only resident.

Layout
There is little in the town apart from the Boulder City ruins and a saloon, run by Ike. At the western entrance, there is the Boulder City Memorial, honoring the soldiers who died at the First Battle of Hoover Dam being looked at by Private Kowalski.

Buildings

 * Big Horn Saloon
 * Boulder City train station
 * Boulder City Memorial
 * Great Khan hideout in Boulder City ruins

Big Horn Saloon

 * One Sunset Sarsaparilla star bottle cap - second table on the left after entering.
 * Three bottles of Nuka-Cola Quartz on the middle shelf on the back wall that must either be stolen or purchased from Ike.

Related quests

 * They Went That-a-Way
 * Ring-a-Ding-Ding!
 * Boulder City Showdown
 * Defacing the Humble Stone
 * We Must Stop Meeting Like This, III

Appearances
Boulder City appears only in Fallout: New Vegas.

Behind the scenes

 * Boulder City is based on the real world location Boulder City, Nevada. Lake Mead, located next to Boulder City, is the home of the Hoover Dam.
 * The city's motto of "Home of the Eagles", seen on the Boulder City train station sign, mirrors the mascot and motto of the real world Boulder City High School.