Hatch or The Hatch may refer to:

Common meanings

Biology

*Hatch, to emerge from an

egg An egg is an organic vessel grown by an animal to carry a possibly fertilized egg cell (a zygote) and to incubate from it an embryo within the egg until the embryo has become an animal fetus that can survive on its own, at which point the a ...

*Hatch(ing), the process of egg incubation

Portals

*Hatch, a sealed or secure

door A door is a hinged or otherwise movable barrier that allows ingress (entry) into and egress (exit) from an enclosure. The created opening in the wall is a ''doorway'' or ''portal''. A door's essential and primary purpose is to provide security b ...

of a ship, submarine, aircraft, spacecraft, or automobile *Hatch, a

sluice Sluice ( ) is a word for a channel controlled at its head by a movable gate which is called a sluice gate. A sluice gate is traditionally a wood or metal barrier sliding in grooves that are set in the sides of the waterway and can be considered ...

gate *Hatch, a trapdoor, a door on a floor or ceiling

Places

Antarctica

* Hatch Islands, Wilkes Land, Antarctica *

Hatch Plain Hatch Plain () is a small debris-covered area at about , on the eastern margin of the Du Toit Nunataks, in the Read Mountains of the Shackleton Range, Antarctica. It was photographed from the air by the U.S. Navy in 1967, and surveyed by the Br ...

, Coats Land, Antarctica

Australia

*The Hatch, New South Wales, a suburb within Port Macquarie-Hastings Council

England

Hatch, Bedfordshire Hatch is a hamlet in the Central Bedfordshire district of Bedfordshire, England. It is located a little over a mile south-west of the market town of Sandy, and forms part of the Northill civil parish. Budna and Thorncote Green Thorncote Gre ...

, a hamlet * Hatch Beauchamp, Somerset *

Hatch Park Hatch Park is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Ashford in Kent. It is listed by Historic England on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England. This site has species-rich acidic gra ...

, a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Kent *

East Hatch East or Orient is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from west and is the direction from which the Sun rises on the Earth. Etymology As in other languages, the word is formed from the fac ...

and

West Hatch West Hatch is a hamlet and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated south east of Taunton in the Somerset West and Taunton district. It has a population of 306. History The name of the hamlet indicates it lies to the west of Hatch Beauchamp ...

, hamlets within the parish of West Tisbury, Wiltshire *

, hamlet and civil parish in Somerset

United States

Hatch, Idaho Hatch is an unincorporated community in Caribou County, in the U.S. state of Idaho Idaho ( ) is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. To the north, it shares a small portion of the Canada–United States b ...

, an unincorporated community *

Hatch, Missouri Hatch is an unincorporated community in Ralls County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. History A post office called Hatch was established in 1883, and remained in operation until 1905. The community has the name of William H. Hatch William Hen ...

, an unincorporated community *

Hatch, New Mexico Hatch is a village in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 1,648 at the 2010 census. The town is experiencing moderate growth, along with its outliers of Salem, Arrey, Derry, and Rincon. Hatch is widely known as the ...

, a village *

Hatch, Utah Hatch is a town in Garfield County, Utah, United States. The population was 133 at the 2010 census. It is south of Salt Lake City. History Hatch was originally called "Mammoth", and under the latter name was settled in 1872. A post office call ...

, a town *Hatch Airport, an airport in Stayton, Oregon

People with the name

Hatch (surname) Hatch is a surname, and may refer to: * Annia Hatch (born 1978), Cuban-American gymnast, who competed at the 2004 Olympics * Ashley Hatch (born 1995), American soccer player * A. Gould Hatch (1896–1970), New York politician * Beatrice Hat ...

*Harrison

Hatch Rosdahl Harrison Lynn Rosdahl (August 24, 1941 – June 15, 2004) was an American football defensive lineman who played three seasons in the American Football League with the Buffalo Bills and Kansas City Chiefs. He was drafted by the San Diego Charge ...

(1941–2004), American football player

Arts, entertainment, and media

*Hatch, a bug-like villain from the TV show '' Hot Wheels Battle Force 5'' * The Hatch, the third DHARMA Initiative station in the television show ''Lost''

Other uses

Hatch chile New Mexico chile or New Mexican chile (Scientific name: ''Capsicum annuum'' 'New Mexico Group'; es, chile de Nuevo México, ) is a cultivar group of the chile pepper from the US state of New Mexico, first grown by Pueblo and Hispano communitie ...

, sub-cultivars of the New Mexico chile pepper cultivar group grown near Hatch, New Mexico *

Hatch (e-commerce company) Hatch is an Amsterdam-based ecommerce platform that was founded in July 2011 under the name Iceleads by serial entrepreneur Joris Kroese and founding partner Icecat as being part of the iMerge group that provided EUR 500,000 seed capital. The com ...

, an ecommerce platform based in Amsterdam * Hatch Ltd, an engineering and development consulting company based in Canada * ''Hatch''-class lifeboat, formerly operated by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution of the United Kingdom and Ireland