Census Data for Thompsons Purchase
As far as we can tell, Thompsons Purchase<1> has not been included in past Census counts, so there is no population information for this community.
While we don't have census information for Thompsons Purchase, you might be interested in some nearby communities where we do:
- Laurel
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Baltimore
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Brookeville
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Greenbelt
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Berwyn Heights
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Berwyn Heights is located in Prince George's County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Berwyn Heights
- Sykesville
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- Bowie
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- College Park
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- New Carrollton
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Riverdale Park
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
- Riverdale
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
- Riverdale is located in Prince George's County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverdale
- University Park
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
- University Park is located in Prince George's County
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- Edmonston
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Edmonston is located in Prince George's County
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- Glenarden
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Glenarden is located in Prince George's County
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- Hyattsville
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
Howard County ...
Thompsons Purchase is located in Howard County<3>.
For more information, please visit our Census Page for Howard County.
Miscellaneous Information for Thompsons Purchase ...
The Federal government has assigned various identifying codes to each community, county and state. At one time or another, the US Census Bureau has used one (or more) of the following identifiers when referring to either Howard County or the community of Thompsons Purchase:
- The GNIS Codes ...
- The current system of identification is called the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). The following GNIS codes relate to Thompsons Purchase:
- GNIS ID for Thompsons Purchase: 1709139
- GNIS ID for Howard County: 1709077
- GNIS ID for State of Maryland: 1714934
- Misc. Census Codes ...
- Thompsons Purchase is located in Census Region #3 (the South Region) and Division #5 (the South Atlantic Division).
For more information about the various Federal identification codes, please visit our Misc Page for Thompsons Purchase.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | It's a common practice for mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names. So Thompsons Purchase may originally have been Thompson's Purchase. Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Thompsons Purchase might be written as Thompson Purchase. For more information, please visit our Genealogy Helper Page for Thompsons Purchase. |
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| <3> | If you're interested in how the shape of Maryland's counties, including Howard, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries. |