Bates Explained

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

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