Bates

Bates may refer to:

Places

• Bates, Arkansas, an unincorporated community
• Bates, Illinois. an unincorporated community in Sangamon County
• Bates, Michigan, a community in Grand Traverse County
• Bates, New York, a hamlet in the town of Ellington in Chautauqua County
• Bates, Oregon, unincorporated community in Grant County
• Bates County, Missouri, county in Missouri
• Bates Island, Biscoe Islands, Antarctica
• Bates Island (Massachusetts), Island in Lake Chaubunagungamaug
• Bates Point, in Victoria Land, Antarctica
• Bates Pond (Carver, Massachusetts), Twenty-acre pond
• Bates State Park, in Grant County, Oregon
• Bates Township, Michigan, in Iron County

People

• Bates (surname), a common surname
• Bates family, a banking family in the United States and the United Kingdom
• Bates Gill (born 1959), American political scientist
• Bates Lowry (1923–2004), American art historian
• Big John Bates, Canadian musician

Organizations

Colleges and universities

• Bates College, a liberal arts college founded in 1855 in Lewiston, Maine
• Bates Technical College, a technical college founded in 1940 in Tacoma, Washington
• Bates Theological Seminary, also known as Cobb Divinity School

Companies and industries

• Bates 141, an advertising agency renamed Bates in 2011
• Bates Mill, a factory founded 1854 in Lewiston, Maine, producing textiles, also the site of an industrial park

Transportation and vehicles

• BATES, an acronym for BAllistic Test and Evaluation System
• Bates (automobile), an automobile manufactured by the Bates Automobile Company
• Bates Monoplane, a pioneering aircraft built by Carl Sterling Bates in 1911

Other

• Bates method, a method of vision improvement
• Bates numbering, a number system for standardized document identification used in the legal, medical, and business fields
• The Bates, a German punk band
• Bates Uniform Footwear, a brand of footwear owned by Wolverine World Wide
• Battlefield Artillery Target Engagement System (BATES), a force-multiplier computer system procured for the British Army from Marconi Electronic Systems

See also

• Bates House (disambiguation)
• Bates Motel (disambiguation)
• Justice Bates (disambiguation)
• Bate (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles containing Bates