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, a hamlet in the town of Ellington in Chautauqua County *

Bates, Oregon Bates is an unincorporated community in Grant County, Oregon, United States. it has a post office with a ZIP code 97817. The elevation is . Bates was a lumber mill town until 1975 with a population of up to 400. Bates State Park opened in 2011. ...

, unincorporated community in Grant County * Bates County, Missouri, county in Missouri *

Bates Island Bates Island is a narrow island long lying east of Jurva Point, Renaud Island, in the Biscoe Islands of Antarctica. It was first accurately shown on an Argentine government chart of 1957, and was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committ ...

, 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) Bates Pond is a pond in Carver, Massachusetts. The pond is located south of Edaville Railroad Edaville Railroad (also branded Edaville USA and Edaville Family Theme Park) is a heritage railroad and amusement park in South Carver, Massachuset ...

, Twenty-acre pond *

Bates State Park Bates State Park is a state park in Grant County, Oregon, USA, near Prairie City. The park includes hiking trails, primitive RV and tent campsites, and a day use area for hikers and bicyclists. History The park is located on the Middle Fork Jo ...

, 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 The Bates family is an American political and banking family from Maine and Massachusetts whose members include a prominent member of the prestigious Hell Fire Club, the 26th U.S. Attorney General serving under Abraham Lincoln, the second Govern ...

, 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 Bates CHI & Partners (formerly Bates 141 and Bates) is an advertising and marketing agency and a member of the WPP Group. History The Bates brand was born in 1940, when Ted Bates opened his first office, Ted Bates Inc., in New York. Ted even ...

, an advertising agency renamed Bates in 2011 *

Bates Mill The Bates Mill is a textile factory company founded in 1850 and located at 35 Canal Street in Lewiston, Maine. The mill served as Maine's largest employer through the 1860s, and early profits from the mill provided much of the initial capital for ...

, a factory founded 1854 in Lewiston, Maine, producing textiles, also the site of an industrial park

Transportation and vehicles

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 Elli ...

, 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 Bates numbering (also known as Bates stamping, Bates branding, Bates coding or Bates labeling) is a method of sequentially numbering pages with a reference number. A hand-operated Bates numbering device is used to "stamp" a number on a page, and ...

, a number system for standardized document identification used in the legal, medical, and business fields *

The Bates __NOTOC__ The Bates were a German punk band, founded in Eschwege, federal state of Hessen, in 1987. The name referred to the character Norman Bates from Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film, '' Psycho''. The Bates were mainly known for their cover ver ...

, a German punk band * Bates Uniform Footwear, a brand of footwear owned by Wolverine World Wide