{"id":33431,"count":1,"description":"Thompson Falls is a city in and the county seat of Sanders County, Montana, United States. The population was 1,321 at the 2000 census.\nThompson Falls was named after British explorer, geographer and fur trader David Thompson, who in 1809 founded Saleesh House, a North West Company fur trading post. The arrival of the railroad in 1881 brought the first real activity to the area, two years later when the gold rush hit nearby C\u0153ur d'Alene the town grew to accommodate the men going over the Murray trail to the mines. In 1885 John Russell bought 40 acres (160,000 m) and plotted the town site.\nThompson Falls is located at 47\u00b035\u203248\u2033N 115\u00b020\u203237\u2033W\ufeff \/ \ufeff47.59667\u00b0N 115.34361\u00b0W\ufeff \/ 47.59667; -115.34361 (47.596587, -115.343730) in the Clark Fork Valley at an elevation of 2,419 feet (737\u00a0m).\nAccording to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.9 square miles (4.9\u00a0km), all of it land.\nAn amphibian, the rough-skinned newt, has a population at Thompson Falls which is...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/thompson-falls\/","name":"Thompson Falls","slug":"thompson-falls","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/33431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=33431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}