Huron

Huron refers to the Wyandot indigenous people of North America, who were Native allies to the French during the Seven Years' War, and to the Wyandot language. It may also refer to:

Places

Bodies of water

• Lake Huron, one of the North American Great Lakes
• Huron River (Michigan) in southeast Michigan
• Huron River (northern Michigan) or Big Huron River in the northern Upper Peninsula of Michigan
• Little Huron River in the northern Upper Peninsula of Michigan
• Huron River (Ohio) in north central Ohio
• Huron Swamp in Springfield Township, Oakland County, Michigan
• Huron Falls, one of 24 named waterfalls in Ricketts Glen State Park in Pennsylvania

Cities and towns in the United States

• Huron, California, a small city in Fresno County, California
• Huron, Indiana
• Huron, Kansas, a city in Atchison County, Kansas
• Huron, Ohio, a city in Erie County, Ohio
• Huron, New York, a town in Wayne County, New York
• Huron, South Dakota, a city in Beadle County, South Dakota
• Huron, Tennessee
• Huron, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
• Hurontown, Michigan
• Huron Beach, Michigan
• Huron Mountain, Michigan
• Port Huron, Michigan

Townships in the United States

• Huron Charter Township, Michigan, in Wayne County
• Huron Township, Iowa
• Huron Township, Michigan, in Huron County
• Huron Township, North Dakota
• Huron Township, Erie County, Ohio
• Huron Township, South Dakota
• Port Huron Township, Michigan

Municipal places in Canada

• Huron—Bruce (formerly known as Huron and Huron—Middlesex), a federal and provincial electoral district in Ontario
• Huron-Kinloss, Ontario, a township in the Canadian province of Ontario, located within Bruce County
• Huron No. 223, Saskatchewan, a rural municipality in south-central Saskatchewan
• Huron East, Ontario, a municipality located in Huron County, Ontario
• Huron South, a historic federal electoral district in Ontario
• Huron North, a historic federal electoral district in Ontario
• Huron East, a historic federal electoral district in Ontario
• Huron West, a historic federal electoral district in Ontario
• Huron Centre, a federal electoral district in Ontario

Counties

• Huron County, Michigan
• Huron County, Ohio
• Huron County, Ontario

Parks, forests, mountains

• Huron Glacier, a glacial flow on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica
• The Huron Islands, the location of Huron National Wildlife Refuge in Michigan on Lake Superior
• The Huron Mountains, a modest range of mountains in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
• Huron National Forest in Michigan
• Huron Peak, a mountain in Colorado

Educational institutions

• Huron University, a former institution in South Dakota
• Huron University College, a confederated college of the University of Western Ontario
• Huron University USA in London, an American institution in the United Kingdom, formerly affiliated with Huron University in South Dakota and since become independent
• Huron High School (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
• Huron High School (Ohio)

Military

• USS Huron (1861), a gunboat acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War
• USS Huron (1875), an iron sloop-rigged screw steam gunboat built by John Roach & Sons in Chester, Pennsylvania
• United State lightship Huron (LV-103), a lightvessel launched in 1920 and now a museum ship moored in Pine Grove Park
• USS Huron (CA-9), a US Navy armored cruiser
• HMCS Huron (G24), a World War II Tribal class destroyer
• HMCS Huron (DDG 281), Iroquois class destroyer active from 1972 to 2005
• HMCS Huron (G24), a Tribal class destroyer built by Vickers-Armstrongs on the River Tyne in England
• Beechcraft C-12 Huron, a series of twin-engine turboprop aircraft

Other uses

• Huron (UK band), an English heavy metal band active since 2007
• Huron (Canadian band), a Canadian rock band active since 2008
• Huron Carol, a traditional Canadian Christmas carol
• Huron Consulting Group, an international management consulting company
• Port Huron Statement, the manifesto of the American student activist movement Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
• Huron Subdivision or Huron Sub, a railway line owned and operated by the Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad
• Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi, a band of Potawatomi American Indians, based in Calhoun County, Michigan), are also known as the Huron Potawatomi
• Huron-Wendat Nation, a Huron-Wendat First Nation with a community in Wendake, Quebec
• "Hurón", either Galictis vittata or Galictis cuja, two related ferret-like mammals from Central and South America
• "Huron" AMD Sempron microprocessor

See also

• Huron County (disambiguation)
• Huron River (disambiguation)