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Thompson Stadium

A stadium in Bowie, Maryland. It seats a stated 12,000. This page collects the address, the access and the capacity figures an organizer needs before a site visit.

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Stated capacity
12,000
people, as published
Opened
1914
112 years old
From BWI
27 km (17 mi)
Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport
From the centre
22 km (13 mi)
of Bowie

Figures as published in open data, retrieved 3 September 2026. Capacities vary by layout — confirm the one you want with the venue.

What the record holds

It sits in Bowie, 22 km (13 mi) from the centre of Bowie.

Thompson Stadium was opened in 1914 and owned by United States Naval Academy, which puts it at 112 years old.

12,000 seats is arena scale, so it works as a plenary room with breakouts hosted nearby.

Owner
United States Naval Academy
Coordinates
38.9786, -76.4831
Classified as
stadium

How attendees reach it

Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) is 27 km (17 mi) out, a standard transfer of twenty to forty minutes outside rush hour.

This is an out-of-centre venue — 22 km (13 mi) from the middle of Bowie — which usually buys you parking and load-in access in exchange for a transport plan.

Bowie has 13 venues mapped in total and a population of 58,421. The Bowie guide covers the airport, the local time zone and what else is bookable nearby.

Programming it

A room this size is a plenary and nothing else. Keynotes, awards and general sessions work; the breakouts, the exhibition and the catering all have to happen somewhere else, so the venue is really the anchor of a campus rather than the whole event.

  • award ceremonies

    A stage, a bowl of seats and a control room already in place.

  • festivals

    An audience of 12,000 is festival scale, not conference scale.

  • company all-hands

    One room, everybody in it, nobody watching on a screen in an overflow space.

What event67 costs at this capacity

Take 950 people through the door in Thompson Stadium — sized to the stated capacity of Thompson Stadium. The first 50 activated attendees are free on every event, so only the rest are billed, and the total stops moving at 1,000 however many more turn up.

activated attendees
950activated attendees
billable, after the first 50 are free
900billable, after the first 50 are free
for the whole event, at $5 each
$4,500for the whole event, at $5 each

You are billed for people, not for the room, so this figure does not change if you move the event down the road. event67 has no floor-plan or booking product — the venue handles the space, the app handles the people in it.

1,000
activated attendees at Thompson Stadium, and what each dot costsOne dot ≈ 10 attendees

Elsewhere in Bowie

4 other venues in Bowie have enough published detail for their own guide. Worth a shortlist before you commit.

Where these numbers come from

event67 is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to this venue or its operator. This page is compiled from open data and links to the venue’s own website where one is published.

  • Wikidata, CC0
  • Venue data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License.
  • Geographic data © GeoNames, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  • Retrieved 3 September 2026. 7 distinct facts from the record are rendered on this page: stated capacity, capacity sizing, year opened, owner, encyclopaedia entry, nearest airport with distance, photograph on Wikimedia Commons.

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What it costs

Free up to 50
activated attendees, on one live event
$5
per activated attendee beyond 50
$4,750
the most one event can ever cost, whatever happens past 1,000

Activated means the person claimed their invite and opened the app. Not when you import them, not when the invite is delivered, and not if they register and stay home.

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Questions people actually ask

How many people does Thompson Stadium hold?

Open data records a stated capacity of 12,000 for Thompson Stadium. That figure is what the venue or an encyclopaedia entry published, and it is usually the maximum seated number — theatre, banquet and reception layouts in the same room can differ by half. Confirm the layout you want directly with the venue.

What does an event app cost for an event at Thompson Stadium?

950 activated attendees means 900 billable after the free 50, so $4,500 for the event. That example is sized to the stated capacity of Thompson Stadium. The rate is $5 per activated attendee beyond the first 50, and the total for one event stops at $4,750 however many more attend. Activated means the person claimed their invite and opened the app. Not when you import them, not when the invite is delivered, and not if they register and stay home.

Is event67 affiliated with Thompson Stadium?

No. event67 is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to this venue or its operator. This page is compiled from open data — OpenStreetMap, Wikidata and public census sources — and links to the venue’s own website where one is published.

What else is nearby if Thompson Stadium is booked?

Navy–Marine Corps Memorial Stadium (34,000), The Show Place Arena (5,800) and Glenn Warner Soccer Facility (2,500) are in the same city and have their own pages here. 13 venues in total are mapped in Bowie.

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