Thompson Falls
Thompson Falls is a city of 1,300 people in northwest Montana. The city sits next to natural waterfalls on the Clark Fork River.- Type: Town with 1,400 residents
- Description: city in Sanders County, Montana, United States
- Also known as: “Home of Western Hospitality”, “Thompson Falls, Montana”, and “Thompson Falls, MT”
- Postal code: 59873
Places of Interest
Highlights include Thompson Falls Dam and Thompson Falls High School.
Thompson Falls Dam
Power station
Thompson Falls Dam is a dam in Sanders County, Montana, in the northwestern part of the state. A complex of four hydropower dams stand on the Clark Fork River in downtown Thompson Falls, Montana: Operations here began in 1915 with original construction on a set of natural falls.
Thompson Falls High School
School
Thompson Falls High School is a high school in Thompson Falls, Montana, United States. As of the 2014–2015 school year, it had an enrollment of 175 students in grades 9–12.
Gem Saloon
Building
The Gem Saloon, at 808 Main St. in Thompson Falls, Montana, USA, was built in 1914. It is a historic building listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
Thompson Falls
- Categories: city in the United States, county seat, and locality
- Location: Sanders, Northwestern Montana, Montana, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
47.5971° or 47° 35′ 50″ north
Longitude
-115.3443° or 115° 20′ 40″ west
Population
1,400
Elevation
2,556 feet (779 metres)
IATA airport code
THM
United Nations Location Code
US THF
Open location code
85V6HMW4+V7
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Thompson Falls” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تومسون فولز”
- Basque: “Thompson Falls”
- Bengali: “থম্পসন ফলস”
- Bulgarian: “Томпсън Фолс”
- Catalan: “Thompson Falls”
- Cebuano: “Thompson Falls”
- Chechen: “Томпсон-Фоллс”
- Chinese: “Thompson Falls”
- Chinese: “汤普森瀑布”
- Danish: “Thompson Falls”
- Dutch: “Thompson Falls”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تومسون فولز”
- French: “Thompson Falls”
- German: “Thompson Falls”
- Gilaki: “تامپسن فالز (مؤنتانا)”
- Gilaki: “تامپسن فالز”
- Haitian: “Thompson Falls, Montana”
- Haitian: “Thompson Falls”
- Hungarian: “Thompson Falls”
- Irish: “Thompson Falls”
- Italian: “Thompson Falls”
- Japanese: “トンプソン・フォールズ”
- Kazakh: “Томпсон Фолс”
- Kirghiz: “Томпсон Фолс”
- Ladin: “Thompson Falls”
- Malagasy: “Thompson Falls, Montana”
- Malagasy: “Thompson Falls”
- Mazanderani: “تامپسن فلز (مونتانا)”
- Mazanderani: “تامپسن فلز”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Thompson Falls”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Thompson Falls”
- Norwegian: “Thompson Falls”
- Persian: “تامپسن فلز، مونتانا”
- Persian: “تامپسن فلز”
- Polish: “Thompson Falls”
- Portuguese: “Thompson Falls”
- Russian: “Томпсон Фолс”
- Russian: “Томпсон-Фолс (Монтана)”
- Russian: “Томпсон-Фолс”
- Serbian: “Томпсон Фолс”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Thompson Falls, Montana”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Thompson Falls”
- Slovenian: “Thompson Falls”
- South Azerbaijani: “تامپسون فالس، مونتانا”
- Spanish: “Thompson Falls (Montana)”
- Spanish: “Thompson Falls”
- Swedish: “Thompson Falls”
- Tatar: “Томпсон-Фоллс”
- Ukrainian: “Томпсон-Фоллс”
- Urdu: “تھامپسن فالز، مونٹانا”
- Uzbek: “Thompson Falls”
- Volapük: “Thompson Falls”
- Waray (Philippines): “Thompson Falls, Montana”
- Waray (Philippines): “Thompson Falls”
- Welsh: “Thompson Falls, Montana”
- Welsh: “Thompson Falls”
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