User:Liamahearn/Davidson, North Carolina

Employers
Davidson is home to many small business. Since Davidson is situated on an old railroad line it has attracted many industrial business for corporate and commercial business. Two widely well known companies have large offices in Davidson. Davidson has attracted these companies due to the influence of Davidson College and Charlotte Douglas International Airport being 25 miles away. All while being a short drive to the up and coming Uptown Charlotte.

Trane / Ingersoll Rand
Davidson is home to Ingersoll Rand US Corporate Headquarters. In 2020, the Beaty Street Corporate headquarters also became home to Trane a recent subsidiary of  Ingersoll Rand. The company has a five building complex on one of Lake Davidson's Peninsulas. Ingersoll Rand employs 1600 Davidsonians. Ingersoll Rand an industrials company has many well known brands other than Trane such as Club Car and CompAir.

MSC Industrial Direct
MSC Industrial Direct, located on Harbor Place Drive can be viewed from I-77 when traveling south. This building houses MSC's Customer Support Center/Corporate Headquarters. MSC Industrial Direct is Industrial Supplier, a Fortune 1000 company and is on the NYSE under the ticker MSM company. MSC Industrial Direct employs 700 people in the Davidson Area.

Davidson College has also created many opportunities for the community employing over 500 residents. Davidson College also created the Hurt HUB. The Hurt HUB at Davidson College is a place for business professionals in the Davidson Area to meet young college students and create new networking opportunities.

Geography
Davidson is located in the Piedmont of North Carolina at 35.49111°N, -80.83278°W, in northern Mecklenburg County, north of Charlotte. A portion of the town extends north into Iredell County. The western edge of the town follows the shoreline of Lake Norman, a large reservoir on the Catawba River, on the northwestern edge it is bordered by Lake Davidson , a runoff basin of Lake Norman.

Davidson is bordered to the south by the town of Cornelius. Interstate 77 passes through the west side of Davidson, with access from Exit 30. I-77 leads south 21 mi to Charlotte and north the same distance to Statesville. North Carolina Highway 115 is Davidson's Main Street; it leads north 7 mi to Mooresville and south 6 mi to Huntersville.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 15.5 sqkm, of which 14.9 sqkm are land and 0.6 sqkm, or 4.12%, are water.