Thompson (North Dakota)
Grand Forks County
38-78660
Thompson is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) in Grand Forks County in the U.S. state of North Dakota. In 2010, Thompson had 986 inhabitants.
Thompson is part of the metropolitan area of Greater Grand Forks.
Geography
Thompson is located in eastern North Dakota, a few kilometers west of the Red River of the North, which forms the border with Minnesota. The geographical coordinates of 47 ° 46'25 Thompson are " north latitude and 97 ° 06'35 " west longitude. The city covers an area of 1.22 km ².
Towns nearby are Grand Forks Thompson ( 22.2 km NNE ) Fisher in Minnesota (30,5 km to the east ), Reynolds (16 km south) and Northwood (38,6 km to the west ).
The nearest major cities are Winnipeg in the Canadian province of Manitoba (253 km north), Duluth, Minnesota on Lake Superior ( 425 km east-southeast ), Minneapolis, Minnesota (487 km south-east ), Fargo (111 km south) and North Dakota's capital city Bismarck ( 378 km west-southwest ).
The border with Canada is located 143 km north.
Traffic
About a kilometer east of Thompson runs in a north -south Interstate 29, which is the shortest route from Winnipeg to Kansas City in Missouri. Coincident with the I 29 here runs the U.S. Highway 81 through the urban area extends in a west-east direction of the North Dakota Highway 18 and Main Street. All other streets within the city are subordinate roads, some unpaved roadways and within local roads.
By Thompson runs in a north -south direction, a railroad line of the BNSF Railway.
The nearest airports are the Grand Forks International Airport ( 24.5 km NNW ), the Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport (256 km in the same direction) and the Hector International Airport in Fargo (107 km south).
Demographic data
According to the census in 2010 lived in Thompson 986 people in 356 households. The population density was 808.2 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 356 households lived statistically 2.77 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 98.1 percent white, 0.3 percent African American, 1.0 percent Native American, 0.1 percent Asian and 0.1 percent from other ethnic groups; 0.4 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 0.9 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
28.4 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 64.5 percent were between 18 and 64 and 7.1 percent were 65 years or older. 49.0 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 85,750. The per capita income was $ 32,406. 3.1 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.