Homestead may refer to: * Homestead (buildings), a farmhouse and its adjacent outbuildings; by extension, it can mean any small cluster of houses *

Homestead (unit) A survey township, sometimes called a Congressional township or just township, as used by the United States Public Land Survey System, is a nominally-square area of land that is nominally six U.S. survey miles (about 9.66 km) on a side. Ea ...

, a unit of measurement equal to 160 acres *

Homestead principle The homestead principle is the principle by which one gains ownership of an unowned natural resource by performing an act of original appropriation. Appropriation could be enacted by putting an unowned resource to active use (as with using it ...

, a legal concept that one can establish ownership of unowned property through living on it * Homestead Acts, several United States federal laws that gave millions of acres to farmers known as ''homesteaders'' * Homestead exemption (U.S. law), a legal program to protect the value of a residence from expenses and/or forced sale arising from the death of a spouse *

Homesteading Homesteading is a lifestyle of self-sufficiency. It is characterized by subsistence agriculture, home preservation of food, and may also involve the small scale production of textiles, clothing, and craft work for household use or sale. Pur ...

, a lifestyle of agrarian self-sufficiency as practiced by a ''modern homesteader'' or ''urban homesteader''

Named places

Australia

Homestead, Queensland Homestead is a rural town and locality in the Charters Towers Region, Queensland, Australia. In the the locality of Homestead had a population of 48 people. Geography The Flinders Highway traverses from east to south-west through the localit ...

, a town and locality in the Charters Towers Region *

The Homestead (Georges Hall, NSW) The Homestead is a large, single-storey former homestead and now school at 1a Lionel Street, Georges Hall, New South Wales, Australia, built by David Johnston in 1837. It is listed on the now-defunct Australian Register of the National Estate. I ...

, historical house * "The Homestead" resort at

El Questro Wilderness Park El Questro Wilderness Park is a wilderness park on El Questro Station, a cattle station that diversified its pastoral operation to include tourism, located in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. It remains a working cattle station with a ...

United Kingdom

The Homestead, Sandiway The Homestead (now Redwalls) is a large house in Weaverham Road, Sandiway, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building. History The house was designed by the Chester ...

, a house in Cheshire, England, now called Redwalls

United States

The Homestead (Flagstaff, Arizona) Homestead may refer to: *Homestead (buildings), a farmhouse and its adjacent outbuildings; by extension, it can mean any small cluster of houses * Homestead (unit), a unit of measurement equal to 160 acres * Homestead principle, a legal concept ...

, on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Coconino County, Arizona *

Homestead, Kern County, California Indian Wells (formerly, Homestead) is an unincorporated community in Kern County, California. It is located in the Indian Wells Valley, west-northwest of Inyokern, on California State Route 14 State Route 14 (SR 14) is a north–south sta ...

* Homestead, Florida :*

Homestead Air Reserve Base Homestead Air Reserve Base (Homestead ARB), previously known as Homestead Air Force Base (Homestead AFB) is located in Miami–Dade County, Florida to the northeast of the city of Homestead. It is home to the 482nd Fighter Wing (482 FW) of th ...

, a U.S. Air Force base near Miami, Florida :* Homestead-Miami Speedway, an auto racing track in Homestead, Florida *

The Homestead (Evanston, Illinois) The Homestead is a historic apartment hotel at 1625 Hinman Avenue in Evanston, Illinois. Opened in 1928, it was one of several apartment hotels built in Evanston in the 1920s. Popular in the early twentieth century, apartment hotels housed a mixtu ...

, on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Evanston, Illinois *

Homestead, Iowa Homestead is an unincorporated community in Iowa County, Iowa, United States. It has the ZIP code 52236. Homestead is a census-designated place with the population recorded as 148 in the 2010 census. Geography Homestead is in northeastern Iowa ...

Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children is a 3,200-bed migrant children's detention center in Homestead, Florida. Until August 3, 2019, the center had been operated by Comprehensive Health Services, Inc. (CHSi), which is a subsidiar ...

, in Florida *

Homestead Township, Otter Tail County, Minnesota Homestead Township is a township in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 371 at the 2000 census. Homestead Township was organized in 1880, and named for the pioneer homestead farms within its borders. Geography Accor ...

* Homestead, Missouri * Homestead, New Mexico * The Homestead (Haverstraw, New York), listed on the NRHP in Rockland County, New York * The Homestead (Geneseo, New York), NRHP-listed, a historic house in Livingston County, New York * The Homestead (Saranac Lake, New York), listed on the NRHP in Franklin County, New York * The Homestead (Waccabuc, New York), listed on the NRHP in Westchester County, New York * The Homestead at Denison University, a student-run intentional community in Granville, Ohio * Homestead, Oklahoma * Homestead, Oregon * Homestead, Portland, Oregon * Homestead, Pennsylvania *

Homestead, Wisconsin Homestead is a town in Florence County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 383 at the 2020 census. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 54.3 square miles (140.7 km2), of which, 5 ...

* Homestead Township, Michigan *

The Homestead (Hot Springs, Virginia) The Omni Homestead Resort is a luxury resort in Hot Springs, Virginia, United States, in the middle of the Allegheny Mountains. The area has the largest hot springs in the commonwealth, and the resort is also known for its championship golf cour ...

, a luxury resort and a National Historic Landmark listed on the NRHP in Bath County, Virginia * Homestead High School (disambiguation), the name of several high schools in the United States *

, a migrant children's detention shelter in Florida

Arts and media

* "Homestead" (''Star Trek: Voyager''), a 2001 episode of ''Star Trek: Voyager'' *''Homestead'', a 1998 novel by American writer

Rosina Lippi Rosina Lippi-Green (née Rosina Lippi; born January 14, 1956) is an American writer. She writes under the names Rosina Lippi-Green (linguistics), Rosina Lippi (literary and contemporary fiction), and Sara Donati (historical fiction). Biography ...

*''The Homestead'', an

artwork by John Steuart Curry This page explores the notable artwork by John Steuart Curry. During Curry's lifetime he was prolific in a number of mediums, including painting, mural work, and illustrations. The page captures the most notable works, alongside many of his othe ...

* Homestead Records, a record label founded in 1983 and based in New York City *

Homestead Records (1920s) Homestead Records was a United States based record label of the 1920s and early 1930s. The first pressings were produced by the Regal Record Company and drew on the same material as Regal, Banner and related labels. Pressings were made by the Scra ...

, an American record company of the 1920s *Homestead, fictional planetary migration company, Passengers

Other uses

Homestead (meteorite) Homestead is a L5 meteorite fallen in 1875 in Iowa, United States. History On the evening of 12 February 1875 above Iowa a brilliant Meteoroid, fireball was observed. About 100 meteorite fragments fell over a snowy countryside area from South Ama ...

, a meteorite that fell in Homestead, Iowa in 1875 * Homestead Strike, an 1892 labor confrontation at the Carnegie Steel Company in Homestead, Pennsylvania *

Homestead Technologies Homestead Technologies is a web hosting company based in Burlington, Massachusetts. Homestead offers its members WYSIWIG tools to build and publish their own websites. Since its founding in 1997 as a free service provider, Homestead has expanded ...