Thomson (Illinois)
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| Nickname : The Melon Capital of the World | |||
Location in Illinois
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| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Illinois | ||
| County : | Carroll County | ||
| Coordinates : | 41 ° 58 ′ N , 90 ° 6 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) | ||
| Residents : | 559 (status: 2000) | ||
| Population density : | 98.1 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 5.7 km 2 (approx. 2 mi 2 ) of which 5.7 km 2 (approx. 2 mi 2 ) is land |
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| Height : | 183 m | ||
| Postal code : | 61285 | ||
| Area code : | +1 815 | ||
| FIPS : | 17-75172 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 419679 | ||
| Website : | www.thomsonil.com | ||
| Mayor : | Jerry "Duke" Hebeler | ||
Thomson is located in Carroll County in the northwest of the US -amerikanischen State of Illinois on the Illinois State Route 84 near the Mississippi with 559 inhabitants.
To the north of the town is the Thomson Correctional Center, a modern, but largely unused, high-security prison .
Thomson is known for growing watermelons , which has earned the place the nickname Melon Capital of the World .
geography
Thomson is located at latitude 41 ° 57 ′ 31 ″ north and longitude 90 ° 05 ′ 56 ″ west about 1.5 km east of the Mississippi, 15 km northwest of Clinton, Iowa , 60 km northeast of the Quad Cities and about 190 km west of Chicago . The place has an area of 5.7 km², which consists exclusively of land.
Demographic data
In the 2000 census, the population was 559. These were distributed over 234 households in 160 families. The population density was 253.2 / km². There were 244 buildings, which corresponds to a density of 42.6 / km².
The population in 2000 was 97.32% white , 0.54% Native American , 0.89% Asian and 0.36% other. 0.89% said they came from at least two of these groups. 0.54% of the population were Hispanics belonging to any of the above groups.
23.6% were under 18 years of age, 8.2% between 18 and 24, 24.2% between 25 and 44, 23.3% between 45 and 64 and 20.8% 65 and over. The average age was 41 years. Statistically, there were 91.4 men for every 100 women, 87.7 among those over 18.
The average family income at $ 41,250. The average income for men was $ 39,000 and that of women was $ 22,143. The per capita income was $ 17,261. Around 4.5% of families and 6.7% of the total population had their income below the poverty line .
jail
The Thomson Correctional Center opened in 2001, but the 1,600-place high-security wing was not in use until 2009. Only the area with 200 detention places, managed as a minimum security unit , has been occupied with an average of 150 detainees since 2006 .
On December 15, 2009, President Barack Obama ordered the unused state prison in Thomson to be prepared to house a limited number of terrorist suspects.
Individual evidence
- ^ Find a County
- ^ US Census Bureau - Thomson, Illinois
- ^ Henry C. Jackson: Rural Illinois prison to get some Gitmo detainees , Yahoo! . December 15, 2009. Archived from the original on December 20, 2009. Retrieved on December 16, 2009.
- ^ " Some Guantanamo detainees to be moved to Illinois ." CNN.com . December 15, 2009. Retrieved on December 15, 2009.