Fletcher may refer to:

People

Fletcher (occupation) Fletching is the fin-shaped aerodynamic stabilization device attached on arrows, bolts, darts, or javelins, and are typically made from light semi-flexible materials such as feathers or bark. Each piece of such fin is a fletch, also known as a ...

, a person who fletches arrows, the origin of the surname *

Fletcher (singer) Cari Elise Fletcher (born March 19, 1994), known mononymously by her last name (stylized in all caps), is an American singer and songwriter. Fletcher's breakthrough single "Undrunk" was released in January 2019 and became her first single to chart ...

(born 1994), American actress and singer-songwriter *

Fletcher (surname) Fletcher is a surname of French language, French, English language, English, Scottish Gaelic, Scottish, and Irish language, Irish origin. The name is a regional (La Flèche) and an occupational name for an Fletching, arrowsmith (a maker and or sel ...

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 (17 ...

Places

United States

* Fletcher, California, a former settlement * Fletcher, the original name of

Aurora, Colorado Aurora (, ) is a List of municipalities in Colorado#Home rule municipality, home rule municipality located in Arapahoe County, Colorado, Arapahoe, Adams County, Colorado, Adams, and Douglas County, Colorado, Douglas List of counties in 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 area, unincorporated community in western Jefferson County, Missouri, Jefferson County, Missouri, United States. The community lies on Calico Creek (Big River tributary), Calico Creek approximately one-half mile east ...

, an unincorporated community *

Fletcher, North Carolina Fletcher is a town in Henderson County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 7,187 at the 2010 census, and was estimated to be 8,333 in 2018. Fletcher is adjacent to Asheville Regional Airport, which serves western North Carolina. I ...

, a suburb of Asheville *

Fletcher, Ohio Fletcher is a village in Miami County, Ohio, United States. The population was 473 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Dayton Metropolitan Statistical Area. History Fletcher was platted in 1830. The village was named after Samuel Fletcher, a ...

, 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 Fletcher is a town in Franklin County, Vermont, United States. The population was 1,346 at the 2020 census. Geography Fletcher is located in southern Franklin County, bordered to the southeast by Lamoille County. According to the United States C ...

, a town *

Fletcher, Virginia Fletcher is an unincorporated community located in Madison County, Virginia Madison County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 13,837. Its county seat is Madison. History Madiso ...

, 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, 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 Fletcher Island is a rocky island, in diameter, which is the largest of the Fletcher Islands. Fletcher Island is located at . Fletcher Island lies in the eastern part of Commonwealth Bay, west-southwest (WSW) of Cape Gray. Fletcher Island was ...

, largest of the Fletcher Islands * Fletcher Peninsula, 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 ...

, 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) Fletcher Island is a Baffin Island offshore island located in the Arctic Archipelago in the territory of Nunavut. The island lies in Frobisher Bay, north of Newell Sound. The Hall Peninsula is to the east. Islands in the immediate vicinity includ ...

, 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 ...

, Greater Manchester, England * 3265 Fletcher, 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 Pac or PAC may refer to: Military * Rapid Deployment Force (Malaysia), an armed forces unit * Patriot Advanced Capability, of the MIM-104 Patriot missile * Civil Defense Patrols (''Patrullas de Autodefensa Civil''), Guatemalan militia and paramili ...

, 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 The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy is the graduate school of international affairs of Tufts University, in Medford, Massachusetts. The School is one of America's oldest graduate schools of international relations and is well-ranked in its ...

, 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, Zimbabwe {{Schooldis ...

, 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 The Fletcher Construction Company Limited is a New Zealand construction company and a subsidiary of Fletcher Building. Together with Higgins Contractors Ltd it makes up the Construction division of Fletcher Building. Fletcher Construction is wid ...

, 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, 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 The Fletcher checksum is an algorithm for computing a position-dependent checksum devised by John G. Fletcher (1934–2012) at Lawrence Livermore Labs in the late 1970s. The objective of the Fletcher checksum was to provide error-detection proper ...

, a checksum used to provide error-detection in computing {{disambiguation, geo