Fletcher may refer to:
People
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Fletcher (occupation), a person who fletches arrows, the origin of the surname
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Fletcher (singer) (born 1994), American actress and singer-songwriter
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Fletcher (surname)
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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
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Fletcher, California, a former settlement
* Fletcher, the original name of
Aurora, Colorado, a home rule municipality
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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 ...
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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
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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 ...
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Fletcher, North Carolina, a suburb of Asheville
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Fletcher, Ohio, a village
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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).
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, a town
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Fletcher, Vermont, a town
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Fletcher, Virginia, an unincorporated community
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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.
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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
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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
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Fletcher Islands, George V Land
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Fletcher Island, largest of the Fletcher Islands
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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
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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
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Fletcher, New South Wales, Australia, a suburb of Newcastle
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Fletcher, Ontario, Canada, a farming community
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Fletcher Island (Nunavut), Canada
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Fletcher's Canal, Greater Manchester, England
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3265 Fletcher
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, an asteroid
Aviation
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Fletcher Aviation, a US aircraft manufacturer
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PAC Fletcher, a New Zealand agricultural aircraft
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Fletcher Field, a public-use airport in Coahoma County, Mississippi
Ships
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''Fletcher'' class, a type of US Navy destroyer
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USS ''Fletcher'' (DD-445), lead ''Fletcher''-class ship, served during World War II
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USS ''Fletcher'' (DD-992), a Spruance-class destroyer
Education
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The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, a graduate school of Tufts University, located in Medford, Massachusetts
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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
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Fletcher Hall (Gainesville, Florida), a dormitory building on the campus of the University of Florida
Other uses
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Fletcher Construction, a major New Zealand construction company
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Fletcher baronets, four titles, one of which is still extant
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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
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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
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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
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Fletcher's checksum, a checksum used to provide error-detection in computing
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