Dempster may refer to:
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Dempster (surname) Dempster is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Arthur Jeffrey Dempster, Canadian physicist who discovered the 235U uranium isotope
* Arthur P. Dempster, American mathematician who, with Glenn Shafer, created the Dempster-Shafer ...
, a surname
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Dempster Woodworth, Wisconsin state senator and physician
* Dempster (
deemster) – an official at pre-1746 baronial courts'
moot hill
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s in Scotland.
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Dempster, South Dakota
Dempster is an unincorporated community in Hamlin County, in the U.S. state of South Dakota.
History
Dempster was plat
In the United States, a plat ( or ) (plan) is a cadastral map, drawn to scale, showing the divisions of a piece of land ...
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Dempster Land District
The lands administrative divisions of Western Australia refer to subdivisions of the state of Western Australia for cadastral (land title) purposes, most of which have been in place since the 19th century. The state is divided up for this purpose ...
, Western Australia
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Dempster Highway, a Canadian roadway, in the Yukon and Northwest Territories
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Dempster Street, a major east–west artery north of Chicago, Illinois, part of which is part of U.S. Route 14
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Dempster (CTA Purple Line station), a Chicago Transit Authority rapid transit station in Evanston, Illinois
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Dempster-Skokie (CTA station), a Chicago Transit Authority rapid transit station in Skokie, Illinois
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Dempster Street station (C&NW)
Dempster Street was a commuter railroad station on the Chicago and North Western Railway's Milwaukee Division, now the Union Pacific / North Line. The station was located at Dempster Street and Sherman Avenue, in Evanston, Illinois. It was adjace ...
, a former commuter rail station in Evanston, Illinois
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Dempster Brothers, Inc., a Tennessee industrial firm
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Dempster Dumpmaster Dempster Brothers, Inc. of Knoxville, Tennessee, was an industrial firm that made waste handling vehicles including the Dempster Dumpmaster and Dempster Dinosaur. The firm was originally established by George Roby Dempster with his brothers Thomas ...
, a garbage-handling vehicle manufactured by the company
** Dempster Dumpster, a waste receptacle manufactured by the company
* Dempster's brand bread, a product of
Canada Bread
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Dempsters Dempsters was a privately held American company that over time produced submersible pumps, windmills and wind energy systems, water systems, recycling trailers, fertilizer equipment, and accessories. Originally named the Dempster Company and then th ...
, a manufacturing company in Nebraska.
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