Fletcher may refer to:

People

* Fletcher (occupation), a person who fletches arrows, the origin of the surname * Fletcher (singer) (born 1994), American actress and singer-songwriter * Fletcher (surname) *

Fletcher (given name) Fletcher is a masculine given name, which may refer to: People * Fletcher Benton (1931–2019), American sculptor, painter and kinetic artist * Fletcher Bowron (1887–1968), long-serving Mayor of Los Angeles, California * Fletcher Christian (1 ...

Places

United States

* Fletcher, California, a former settlement * Fletcher, the original name of Aurora, Colorado, a home rule municipality *

Fletcher, Illinois Fletcher (also Fletchers) is an unincorporated community in McLean County, Illinois Illinois ( ) is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its largest metropolitan areas include the Chicago metropolitan area, and the Metro East sectio ...

, an unincorporated community *

Fletcher, Indiana Fletcher or Fletcher Lake is an unincorporated area, unincorporated community in Wayne Township, Fulton County, Indiana, Wayne Township, Fulton County, Indiana, Fulton County, Indiana. History A post office was established at Fletcher in 1888, an ...

, an unincorporated town *

Fletcher, Missouri Fletcher is an unincorporated community in western Jefferson County, Missouri, United States. The community lies on Calico Creek approximately one-half mile east of the Jefferson-Washington county line. It is located approximately ten miles wes ...

, an unincorporated community * Fletcher, North Carolina, a suburb of Asheville * Fletcher, Ohio, a village *

Fletcher, Oklahoma Fletcher is a town in Comanche County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 1,177 at the 2010 census. It is included in the Lawton, Oklahoma Metropolitan Statistical Area. Geography Fletcher is located at (34.822445, -98.240643). Acco ...

, a town * Fletcher, Vermont, a town * Fletcher, Virginia, an unincorporated community *

Fletcher, West Virginia Fletcher is an Unincorporated area, unincorporated community in Jackson County, West Virginia, Jackson County, West Virginia, United States. The community was named after one Mr. Fletcher, an early settler. References

Unincorporated ...

, an unincorporated community *

Fletcher Hills The Fletcher Hills are a low mountain range in the Peninsular Ranges, in southwestern San Diego County, California. The name Fletcher Hills also refers to a neighborhood near San Diego, California which lies primarily in the city of El Cajon and p ...

, San Diego County, California *

Fletcher Pond Fletcher Pond (also called Fletcher Floodwaters) is a man-made body of water located in Northeastern Michigan. The pond covers over of land that was previously cedar forest. A dam was built in 1931 that blocked the flow of the Thunder Bay River ...

, Michigan, a man-made body of water

Antarctica

Fletcher Islands The Fletcher Islands are a small group of islands lying west-southwest (WSW) of Cape Gray in the eastern part of Commonwealth Bay. The Fletcher Islands were discovered by the Australian Antarctic Expedition (AAE) (1911-1914) under Douglas Mawson, ...

, George V Land * Fletcher Island, largest of the Fletcher Islands *

Fletcher Peninsula Fletcher Peninsula is a broad ice-covered peninsula which extends into the Bellingshausen Sea between the Abbot and Venable ice shelves in Antarctica. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 19 ...

, Ellsworth Land *

Fletcher Ice Rise Fletcher Ice Rise (), or Fletcher Promontory, is a large ice rise, long and wide, at the southwest side of the Ronne Ice Shelf, Antarctica. The feature is completely ice covered and rises between Rutford Ice Stream and Carlson Inlet. The ice rise ...

Elsewhere

Fletcher, New South Wales Fletcher is an outer western suburb of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, located from Newcastle's central business district on the western edge of the City of Newcastle local government area. Fletcher had a population of over 5,000 in 201 ...

, Australia, a suburb of Newcastle *

Fletcher, Ontario Fletcher is a small farming community located in southwestern Ontario, Canada. It lies north of the shores of Lake Erie. Fletcher was the home of Armstrong Brick and Tile, whose plant was remarkable for three large Beehive-style kilns. The comp ...

, Canada, a farming community * Fletcher Island (Nunavut), Canada *

Fletcher's Canal Fletcher's Canal was a long canal in Greater Manchester, which connected the Wet Earth Colliery to the Manchester, Bolton & Bury Canal at Clifton Aqueduct. The canal is now derelict and no longer used. The canal was built on the south bank of ...

, Greater Manchester, England *

3265 Fletcher 3 (three) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 2 and preceding 4, and is the smallest odd prime number and the only prime preceding a square number. It has religious or cultural significance in many societie ...

, an asteroid

Aviation

Fletcher Aviation Fletcher Aviation Corporation was an aircraft manufacturer founded by three brothers, Wendell, Frank, and Maurice Fletcher, in Pasadena, California in 1941. History The initial aim of the company was to produce a wooden basic trainer aircraft (th ...

, a US aircraft manufacturer * PAC Fletcher, a New Zealand agricultural aircraft *

Fletcher Field Fletcher Field is a public use airport in Coahoma County, Mississippi, United States. It is owned by the Coahoma County Airport Board and located seven nautical miles (13 km) northeast of the central business district of Clarksdale, Mi ...

, a public-use airport in Coahoma County, Mississippi

Ships

* ''Fletcher'' class, a type of US Navy destroyer * USS ''Fletcher'' (DD-445), lead ''Fletcher''-class ship, served during World War II * USS ''Fletcher'' (DD-992), a Spruance-class destroyer

Education

* The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, a graduate school of Tufts University, located in Medford, Massachusetts *

Fletcher High School (disambiguation) Fletcher High School may refer to: *Duncan U. Fletcher High School, Neptune Beach, Florida, United States *Fletcher High School, Gweru Fletcher High School is a school in Gweru, Zimbabwe. It was one of the first boarding schools during the colon ...

, several schools *

Fletcher Hall (Gainesville, Florida) Fletcher Hall, originally called North Hall, is an historic dormitory building on the campus of the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, in the United States. It makes up half of the "F" in the "U.F." in the Murphee Area. The "U.F" in ...

, a dormitory building on the campus of the University of Florida

Other uses

* Fletcher Construction, a major New Zealand construction company *

Fletcher baronets There have been five creations of Fletcher baronets from 1641 to 1919, three of which are extinct. The creations of 1782 and 1796 have descended to male descendants who have changed surnames to recognise further early inheritance and are the exi ...

, four titles, one of which is still extant *

Fletcher Collection The Fletcher Collection is Hugh Greenwell Fletcher's lifetime philatelic collection of British postage stamps and British stamps used abroad including overprints and non-stamp items such as postal stationery. On his death in 1968 (aged 86), the c ...

, a collection of British postage stamps in the British Library *

Fletcher (typeface) Fletcher is the name given to a revival of a nineteenth-century blackletter typeface designed in the Paris foundry of Theophile Beaudoire (1833–1903). The typeface appears in the title pages of many 1870s books. Dan X. Solo's revival is based on ...

, a geometrically constructed blackletter typeface *

Needlegun A needlegun, also known as a needler, flechette gun or fletcher, is a firearm that fires small, sometimes fin-stabilized, metal darts or flechettes. Theoretically, the advantages of a needlegun over conventional projectile firearms are in its ...

or fletcher, a firearm that fires flechettes * Fletcher's checksum, a checksum used to provide error-detection in computing {{disambiguation, geo