Bates may refer to:

Places

Bates, Arkansas Bates is an unincorporated community in Scott County, Arkansas, United States. It is the location or nearest community of Bates School, at 1074 Bates School Rd., which is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places The National ...

, an unincorporated community *

Bates, Illinois Bates is an unincorporated community in New Berlin Township, Sangamon County, Illinois, United States. Bates is located on the Norfolk Southern Railway The Norfolk Southern Railway is a Class I freight railroad in the United States forme ...

. an unincorporated community in Sangamon County *

Bates, Michigan Acme Township ( ) is a civil township of Grand Traverse County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, the township population was 4,456, slightly up from 4,375 at the 2010 census. The southwestern portion of the township is large ...

, a community in Grand Traverse County *

Bates, New York Ellington is a town in Chautauqua County, New York, United States. The population was 1,493 at the 2020 census. History The first settler arrived ''circa'' 1814. The town of Ellington was formed on April 1, 1824 from the town of Gerry, and C ...

, 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) Bates Island is a forested and uninhabited island located in Lake Chaubunagungamaug in Webster, Massachusetts, Webster, Massachusetts. References

Lake islands of Massachusetts Islands of Worcester County, Massachusetts Uninhabited isla ...

, Island in Lake Chaubunagungamaug *

Bates Point Bates Point () is an ice-covered headland forming the north side of the entrance to Yule Bay, along the north coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica. The geographical feature was first mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and from ...

, in Victoria Land, Antarctica * Bates Pond (Carver, Massachusetts), Twenty-acre pond * Bates State Park, in Grant County, Oregon *

Bates Township, Michigan Bates Township is a civil township of Iron County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the township population was 1,021. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , of which is la ...

, in Iron County

People

Bates (surname) Bates is a common surname of English people, English origin and is derived from the name Bartholomew (name), Bartholomew. Retrieved 23 January 2014 The name could also originate from the Old English "Bat", meaning "Boat", Retrieved 23 April 2019 as ...

, 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 Bates Lowry (June 23, 1923 – March 12, 2004) was an art historian who was a director of the Museum of Modern Art and founding director of the National Building Museum. Early life He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio received an undergraduate degree ...

(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 Cobb Divinity School (also known as Bates Theological Seminary or the Free Will Baptist Bible School) was a Baptist theological institute. Founded in 1840, it was a Free Will Baptist graduate school affiliated with several Free Baptist institution ...

, 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) The Bates was an automobile manufactured in Lansing, Michigan, by the Bates Automobile Company from 1903 to 1905. The Bates was the brainchild of M.F. Bates, who was vice-president of the company. History Bates Automobile was organized on May ...

, an automobile manufactured by the Bates Automobile Company *

Bates Monoplane The Bates Monoplane was a pioneering aircraft built by Carl Sterling Bates in 1911. Design and development Bates developed his first aircraft, a piloted kite in 1898 at the age of 14 at Clear Lake, Iowa. Later as a student of Octave Chanute, he ...

, a pioneering aircraft built by Carl Sterling Bates in 1911

Other

Bates method The Bates method is an ineffective and potentially dangerous alternative therapy aimed at improving eyesight. Eye-care physician William Horatio Bates (1860–1931) held the erroneous belief that the extraocular muscles effected changes in ...

, 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