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Pickett (other)
Pickett is a surname. Pickett may also refer to a place in the United States: * Pickett, Kentucky * Pickett, Oklahoma *Pickett, Wisconsin *Pickett County, Tennessee *Fort Pickett, Virginia See also * Picket (other) * Picquet (other) Picquet may refer to: An alternative spelling for ''Picket'' * Picquet (military), a small temporary military post closer to the enemy than the main formation; or a group of soldiers detailed for a specific duty (e.g., fire picquet) * Picquet (pun ... * Piquet (other) * Piquette (other) {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pickett
Pickett is an English surname. It is a variant form of Pigott. Notable people with the surname include: * Adarius Pickett (born 1996), American football player * Albert J. Pickett (1810–1858), American historian * Allison Deforest Pickett (1900–1991), Canadian entomologist *Allistair Pickett (born 1973), Australian rules footballer *Bill Pickett (1870-1932), American cowboy and rodeo performer * Bob Pickett (American football) (1932–2010), American football player *Bobby Pickett (1938–2007), American singer *Brad Pickett (born 1978), British mixed martial arts fighter *Byron Pickett (born 1977), Australian rules footballer * Carroll Pickett (born 1933), American Presbyterian minister *Carson Pickett (born 1993), American women's soccer player * Charles E. Pickett (1866–1930), American politician from Iowa *Cindy Pickett (born 1947), American actress *Cody Pickett (born 1980), Canadian footballer * Cornelius A. Pickett (1902–1990), American politician and Mayor of Houst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pickett, Kentucky
Pickett is an unincorporated community in Adair County, Kentucky Kentucky ( , ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States and one of the states of the Upper South. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north; West Virginia and Virginia to ..., United States. Its elevation is 676 feet (206 m). References Unincorporated communities in Adair County, Kentucky Unincorporated communities in Kentucky {{AdairCountyKY-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pickett, Oklahoma
Pickett is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Pontotoc County, Oklahoma, United States. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census. The CDP is in west-central Pontotoc County, along Oklahoma State Highway 19, which leads east to Ada, the county seat A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a county or civil parish. The term is in use in Canada, China, Hungary, Romania, Taiwan, and the United States. The equivalent term shire town is used in the US st ..., and west to Stratford. Demographics References Census-designated places in Pontotoc County, Oklahoma Census-designated places in Oklahoma {{Oklahoma-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pickett, Wisconsin
Pickett is an unincorporated community in Winnebago County, Wisconsin, United States. Situated in the southwestern part of the county Pickett is located on Wisconsin Highway 44 between Ripon and Oshkosh, in the town of Utica. Pickett has a post office with ZIP code 54964. History The community was originally named along with its post office as Welaunee or Weelaunee in May 1850, however it was later renamed Pickett's Station after Armine Pickett, an early settler and land owner who also served in the Wisconsin State Assembly The Wisconsin State Assembly is the lower house of the Wisconsin Legislature. Together with the smaller Wisconsin Senate, the two constitute the legislative branch of the U.S. state of Wisconsin. Representatives are elected for two-year terms, ... during the early 1860s. The name change to Pickett's Station occurred in the 1870s, with the completion of construction of the railroad. Finally, the name was changed to present-day Pickett in the year 1883 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pickett County, Tennessee
Pickett County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2020 census, the population was 5,001, making it the least populous county in Tennessee. Its county seat is Byrdstown. The city of Byrdstown and the Kentucky town of Albany, to the northeast, are positioned between two Army Corps of Engineers lakes: Dale Hollow Lake, mainly in Tennessee, and Lake Cumberland, in Kentucky. The area is known as "Twin Lakes" and Byrdstown is noted as "The Gateway To Dale Hollow Lake". Every year thousands of people vacation at the many resorts situated along the lakes. History Pickett County was created in 1879 from sections of Overton and Fentress counties. It was named for Howell Lester Pickett (1847 - 1914), a member of the state legislature representing Wilson County who had been instrumental in the county's formation. Nobel Peace Prize winner Cordell Hull had been born in one of the parcels of land set aside to create the new county. Hull would be honored fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fort Pickett
Fort Pickett is a Virginia Army National Guard installation, located near the town of Blackstone, Virginia. Home of the Army National Guard Maneuver Training Center, Fort Pickett is named for the United States Army officer and Confederate General George Pickett. It is one of the U.S. Army installations named for Confederate soldiers to be renamed by The Naming Commission. Their recommendation is that the post be renamed Fort Barfoot.The Naming Commission (Aug 2022Recommendation/ref> Beginnings Late in 1941 a team of Army surveyors visited the site of a former Civilian Conservation Corps camp near the small rural town of Blackstone, Virginia. There they found enough land, water and other resources needed to establish a post large enough to simultaneously train more than one infantry division. The site also offered easy railroad access to both mountain and coastal training sites. By December, 1941, of land in Nottoway, Dinwiddie, Lunenburg and Brunswick Counties were a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Picket (other)
Picket may refer to: * Snow picket, a climbing tool * Picket fence, a type of fence * Screw picket, a tethering device * Picket line, to tether horses *"Picket line" is also used in picketing, a form of protest **See also: " Crossing the picket line" * Picket (military), a soldier or small unit placed ahead of the main formation ** Radar picket, a radar equipped vehicle on picket duty * Picket boat, a small military boat * Picket (punishment), a 16th and 17th century military punishment * Picket, a fairy chess piece * The Flying Pickets, a British a cappella vocal group * Picket (climbing) Places * Picket Hill * Picket Piece * Picket Post, a road junction and service area in the New Forest National Park * Picket Range, a small, extremely rugged subrange of the North Cascades * Picket Seamount * Picket Twenty See also * Picket fence (other) * Pickett (other) * Picquet (other), an alternative spelling for picket but usually only in an historical context ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Picquet (other)
Picquet may refer to: An alternative spelling for ''Picket'' * Picquet (military), a small temporary military post closer to the enemy than the main formation; or a group of soldiers detailed for a specific duty (e.g., fire picquet) * Picquet (punishment), a form of military punishment in vogue in the 16th and 17th centuries in Europe People *François Picquet (1708–1781), Sulpician priest who came to Montreal from France in 1734 *Count Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte (1720–1791), French admiral *Aimé Picquet du Boisguy Aimé Casimir Marie Picquet, chevalier du Boisguy, sometimes spelt Bois-Guy, (15 March 1776 – 25 October 1839), was a Breton chouan general during the French Revolution. He was nicknamed "the little general" by his men due to his youth. Still a ... (1776–1839), French chouan general during the French Revolution * Louisa Picquet (c. 1828,–1896), American whose life became the subject of a biography ''Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon, or, Inside View ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piquet (other)
Piquet is a card game. Piquet may also refer to: People *Georges Jules Piquet (fl. 1880s), French Governor General for Inde française in the Second French Colonial Empire under Third Republic *Jean-Baptiste Marie de Piquet, Marquess of Méjanes (1729-1786) French aristocrat * Laurence Piquet (fl. 1980s-present), French female television personality *Nelson Piquet (born 1952), Brazilian Formula One driver *Nelson Piquet Jr. (born 1985), Brazilian race car driver *Pedro Piquet (born 1998), Brazilian race car driver * René-Émile Piquet (born 1932), French politician Sports * Piquet Racing (fl. 1992), a British Formula 3000 racing team set up by Nelson Piquet and Nigel Stepney *Piquet GP (2007-2009; formerly ''Minardi Piquet Sports'') motorsports team, created from the merger of ''Piquet Sports'' (founded 2000) and ''GP Racing'' (founded 1997) * Piquet Sports (2000-2007) motorsports team founded by Nelson Piquet Sr., that merged in 2007 into ''Piquet GP'' Other uses * Alternative ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
