Humboldt may refer to:

People

Alexander von Humboldt Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (14 September 17696 May 1859) was a German polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and proponent of Romantic philosophy and science. He was the younger brother of the Prussian minister, p ...

, German natural scientist, brother of Wilhelm von Humboldt *

Wilhelm von Humboldt Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand von Humboldt (, also , ; ; 22 June 1767 – 8 April 1835) was a Prussian philosopher, linguist, government functionary, diplomat, and founder of the Humboldt University of Berlin, which was named after ...

, German linguist, philosopher, and diplomat, brother of Alexander von Humboldt

Fictional characters

* Humboldt Fleisher, character in novel ''

Humboldt's Gift ''Humboldt's Gift'' is a 1975 novel by Canadian-American author Saul Bellow. It won the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and contributed to Bellow's winning the Nobel Prize in Literature the same year. Plot The novel, which Bellow initially intend ...

'' * Wes Humboldt, character played by Mike O’Brien on '' Corner Gas''

Places

Australia

Humboldt, Queensland Humboldt is a rural locality in the Central Highlands Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Humboldt had a population of 13 people. Geography The Dawson Highway forms the southern boundary of the locality and the ridgeline of the Expedition ...

, a locality in the Central Highlands Region

Canada

Humboldt, Saskatchewan Humboldt is a city in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada. It is located 113 km east of Saskatoon at the junction of Highway 5 and Highway 20. The city is surrounded by the Rural Municipality of Humboldt No. 370. History Named after Ger ...

* Rural Municipality of Humboldt No. 370, Saskatchewan *

Humboldt (electoral district) Humboldt was a federal electoral district in Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1904 to 1953. When it was created in 1903, it was part of the Northwest Territories. When Saskatchewan became a province in 1905, Humbo ...

, a former federal electoral district *

Humboldt (provincial electoral district) Humboldt was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan, Canada. Located in central Saskatchewan, this constituency was one of 25 created for the 1st Saskatchewan general election in 1905. Incorporated as a ci ...

, a former Saskatchewan provincial electoral district

United States

* Settled places: ** Dewey-Humboldt, Arizona **

Humboldt, Illinois Humboldt is a village in Coles County, Illinois, Coles County, Illinois, United States. At the United States Census, 2020, 2020 census, its population was 361. It is part of the Charleston-Mattoon micropolitan area, Charleston-Mattoon Micropolitan ...

Humboldt, Iowa Humboldt is a city in Humboldt County, Iowa, United States. The population was 4,792 at the time of the 2020 census, gaining 340 people over the 2000 total. History Frank A. Gotch Park (just south of present-day Humboldt and Dakota City) was a ...

Humboldt, Kansas Humboldt is a city in Allen County, Kansas, United States. It is situated along the Neosho River. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 1,847. History 19th century Humboldt, named after Baron von Humboldt, was founded in 1 ...

** Humboldt, Minnesota ** Humboldt, Nebraska **

Humboldt, Ohio Humboldt is an unincorporated community in Ross County, in the U.S. state of Ohio. History Humboldt had its start in 1878 when the railroad was extended to that point. A post office called Humboldt was established in 1880, and remained in operati ...

Humboldt, Portland, Oregon Humboldt is a neighborhood in the North and Northeast sections of Portland, Oregon. It is bordered by the neighborhoods of Piedmont to the north, King to the east, Boise to the south, and Overlook to the west. See also * Portland foreclosure prote ...

** Humboldt, Pennsylvania **

Humboldt, South Dakota Humboldt is a town in Minnehaha County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 579 at the 2020 census. History The first settlement at Humboldt was made in 1877. The town was named from its location in Humboldt Township. A post office ...

Humboldt, Tennessee Humboldt is a city in Gibson and Madison counties, Tennessee. The population was 8,452 at the 2010 census, a decline of 1,015 from 2000. It is the principal city of and is included in the Humboldt, Tennessee Micropolitan Statistical Area, which i ...

** In Wisconsin: ***

Humboldt, Wisconsin Humboldt is a town in Brown County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The population was 1,311 at the 2010 census. The unincorporated communities of Humboldt and Sugar Bush are located in the town, and the unincorporated community of New Franken is ...

, town ***

Humboldt (community), Wisconsin Humboldt is an unincorporated community located in the town of Humboldt, Brown County, Wisconsin Wisconsin () is a state in the upper Midwestern United States. Wisconsin is the 25th-largest state by total area and the 20th-most popul ...

, unincorporated community * Superordinate governmental units: ** Counties: ***

Humboldt County, California Humboldt County () is a county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 136,463. The county seat is Eureka. Humboldt County comprises the Eureka–Arcata–Fortuna, California Micropolitan Statistica ...

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Humboldt County, Iowa Humboldt County is a county in the U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2020 census, the population was 9,597. The county seat is Dakota City. The county was created in 1857 and named in honor of Alexander von Humboldt. History Founding Iowa's entry ...

*** Humboldt County, Nevada **

Humboldt Township (disambiguation) Humboldt Township may refer to the following places in the United States: * Humboldt Township, Coles County, Illinois * Humboldt Township, Humboldt County, Iowa * Humboldt Township, Allen County, Kansas * Humboldt Township, Michigan * Humboldt To ...

* Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, Nevada *

Humboldt City, Nevada Humboldt City, Nevada is a former mining settlement whose ruins lie in Pershing County approximately 10 miles SW of Mill City and 2 miles SE of Interstate 80 Interstate 80 (I-80) is an east–west transcontinental freeway that crosses ...

, ruins of mining settlement * Humboldt Park, Chicago, a Chicago community area

Transportation

* Humboldt station (Saskatchewan), a former railway station in Humboldt, Saskatchewan, Canada * Humboldt–Hospital station, a Buffalo Metro Rail station in Buffalo, New York, United States *

Humboldt Street (LIRR station) Humboldt Street was a train station along the Evergreen Branch of the Long Island Rail Road. The station was originally built on May 15, 1878. The platform area extended between Humboldt Street and Graham Street. History Humboldt Street was .99 mi ...

, a Long Island Rail Road station in Brooklyn, New York, United States

Other

Guevea de Humboldt Guevea de Humboldt is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in south-western Mexico. It in the north of the Tehuantepec District, which is in the west of the Istmo Region. History The name Guevea comes from the variant of the Zapotec language of t ...

, Oaxaca, Mexico

Geographical features

Mountains

* In United States: ** Humboldt Peak (Colorado) ** Nevada: ***

East Humboldt Range The East Humboldt Range is a mountain range in Elko County, Nevada, United States. It is located along the eastern edge of the upper watershed of the Humboldt River, which flows to the southwest from its source just north of the range. The ra ...

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Humboldt Peak (Nevada) Humboldt Peak is the southernmost high summit in the East Humboldt Range of Elko County in northeastern Nevada. To the west are First and Second Boulder Canyons, to the south is Pole Canyon and Secret Pass, and to the east is the South Fork of Ste ...

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Humboldt Range The Humboldt Range is a largely north-south running range of mountains in northwest Nevada, USA, that extend from the town of Imlay in the north to the junction with the West Humboldt Range in the south. It is bordered continuously by Interst ...

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West Humboldt Range The West Humboldt Range is a short mountain range in the western Great Basin in northwestern Nevada in the United States. Geography The mountain range runs for approximately southwest to northeast in northern Churchill County and southern Per ...

Humboldt Mountains (Antarctica) The Humboldt Mountains are a group of mountains immediately west of the Petermann Ranges, forming the westernmost portion of the Wohlthat Mountains in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. History The mountains were discovered and mapped by the Third Ger ...

, Queen Maud Land * Humboldt Mountains (New Zealand), Otago *

Pico Humboldt Pico Humboldt is Venezuela's second highest peak, at 4,925 metres above sea level. It is located in the Sierra Nevada de Merida, in the Venezuelan Andes of (Mérida State). The peak, its sister peak Pico Bonpland, and the surrounding páramos ar ...

in Venezuela

Parks, forests, nature preserves

* United States: ** California: ***

Fort Humboldt State Historic Park Fort Humboldt State Historic Park is a California state park, located in Eureka, California, United States. Displays interpret the former U.S. Army fort, which was staffed from 1853–1870, the interactions between European Americans and Native A ...

, in Eureka ***

Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge is located on Humboldt Bay, on the California North Coast near the cities of Eureka and Arcata. The refuge exists primarily to protect and enhance wetland habitats for migratory water birds using the bay area ...

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Humboldt Redwoods State Park Humboldt Redwoods State Park is a state park of California, United States, containing Rockefeller Forest, the world's largest remaining contiguous old-growth forest of Sequoia sempervirens, coast redwoods. It is located south of Eureka, Califor ...

** Nevada: ***

Humboldt Wildlife Management Area The Humboldt Wildlife Management Area (WMA) is a wildlife management area in the U.S. state of Nevada, encompassing the salt marshes at the terminus of the Humboldt River. Habitats and wildlife The Humboldt WMA contains habitats ranging from ...

*** Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest ** Buffalo, New York: *** Humboldt Park, now

Martin Luther King, Jr. Park :''There is also a Martin Luther King, Jr., Park in Oberlin, Ohio.'' Martin Luther King Jr. Park, originally The Parade and after 1896, Humboldt Park, is a historic park located in Buffalo in Erie County, New York. The park is located in east Bu ...

*** Humboldt Parkway, repurposed **

Humboldt Park (Chicago park) Humboldt Park is a park located at 1400 North Sacramento Avenue on the West Side of Chicago, Illinois. The park was named for Alexander von Humboldt, a German naturalist and botanist. History William Le Baron Jenney began developing the par ...

* Parque Nacional Alejandro de Humboldt in Cuba *

Monumento Nacional Alejandro de Humboldt Monumento may refer to: * ''Monumento'' (album), a 2008 album by Dakrya * Monumento, a district in Caloocan, Philippines where the Bonifacio Monument is located ** Monumento LRT Station See also ''Monumento'' means monument in Portuguese, Span ...

, at

Cueva del Guácharo National Park The Guácharo Cave National Park () is located from the town of Caripe, Monagas, Venezuela. It has as its centerpiece a large limestone cave. The cave was visited in 1799 by Alexander von Humboldt, who realised that the thousands of oilbirds ( ...

in Venezuela * Sima Humboldt, sinkhole in Venezuela

Water and ice features

* Oceanic: **

Humboldt Glacier Humboldt Glacier ( da, Humboldt Gletscher) is one of the major glaciers in northern Greenland. The glacier is named after German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt and is the widest tidewater glacier in the Northern Hemisphere. Geography The Humb ...

in Greenland ** Pacific Basin: *** Bays: ****

Humboldt Bay Humboldt Bay is a natural bay and a multi-basin, bar-built coastal lagoon located on the rugged North Coast of California, entirely within Humboldt County, United States. It is the largest protected body of water on the West Coast between Sa ...

, California **** Humboldt Bay, AKA Yos Sudarso Bay, New Guinea ***

Humboldt Current The Humboldt Current, also called the Peru Current, is a cold, low- salinity ocean current that flows north along the western coast of South America.Montecino, Vivian, and Carina B. Lange. "The Humboldt Current System: Ecosystem components and pr ...

or Peru Current of the Pacific * On land: **

Humboldt Falls Humboldt Falls is a waterfall located in the Hollyford Valley in the Fiordland district of New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North ...

, Fiordland, New Zealand ** Humboldt River basin, Nevada, United States: ***

Humboldt River The Humboldt River is an extensive river drainage system located in north-central Nevada. It extends in a general east-to-west direction from its headwaters in the Jarbidge, Independence, and Ruby Mountains in Elko County, to its terminus in the ...

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Little Humboldt River The Little Humboldt River is a tributary of the Humboldt River, approximately long, in northern Nevada in the western United States. It is an intermittent stream draining a rugged area on the edge of the Owyhee Desert in the Great Basin. It ri ...

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Humboldt Salt Marsh The Humboldt Salt Marsh in the Humboldt Sink of northwestern Nevada is a wetland that is 1 of 2 salt marshes within the state (cf. Tonopah Wetland in the Tonopah Basin The Great Basin Desert is part of the Great Basin between the Sierra Nev ...

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Humboldt Sink The Humboldt Sink is an intermittent dry lake bed, approximately 11 mi (18 km) long, and 4 mi (6 km) across, in northwestern Nevada in the United States. The body of water in the sink is known as Humboldt Lake. The sink and it ...

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Lake Humboldt Lake Humboldt or Humboldt Lake is an endorheic basin lake in northern Churchill County and southern Pershing County in the state of Nevada in the United States. The lake has the name of Alexander von Humboldt, a German natural scientist. The la ...

Organizations and institutions

* Latin America: ** German schools: *** In Mexico: **** Colegio Alemán Alexander von Humboldt,

Mexico City Mexico City ( es, link=no, Ciudad de México, ; abbr.: CDMX; Nahuatl: ''Altepetl Mexico'') is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America. One of the world's alpha cities, it is located in the Valley o ...

**** Colegio Humboldt,

Puebla Puebla ( en, colony, settlement), officially Free and Sovereign State of Puebla ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Puebla), is one of the 32 states which comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 217 municipalities and its cap ...

, Mexico *** Colégio Humboldt, São Paulo, Brazil *** Colegio Humboldt,

Caracas Caracas (, ), officially Santiago de León de Caracas, abbreviated as CCS, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas). Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the ...

, Venezuela ** Humboldt Shipmanagement,

Valparaíso Valparaíso (; ) is a major city, seaport, naval base, and educational centre in the commune of Valparaíso, Chile. "Greater Valparaíso" is the second largest metropolitan area in the country. Valparaíso is located about northwest of Santiago ...

, Chile **

Universidad Alejandro de Humboldt Universidad Alejandro de Humboldt was named in honor of Alexander von Humboldt German naturalist and explorer. UAH is a Venezuelan private university sponsored by the Civil Association Educational Humboldt, created by the National University Counc ...

, Venezuela ** Colegio Alemán Alexander von Humboldt,

Lima, Peru Lima ( ; ), originally founded as Ciudad de Los Reyes (City of The Kings) is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón River, Chillón, Rímac River, Rímac and Lurín Rivers, in the desert zone of t ...

* Germany: ** Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, a German foundation for the promotion of international research cooperation **

Humboldtschule, Bad Homburg The (abbreviation: ''HUS''; en, Humboldt School) is one of two ''Gymnasium (Germany), Gymnasiums'', besides the (KFG), in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Hesse, Germany. The eponyms are Alexander von Humboldt, Alexander (1769–1859) and Wilhelm vo ...

, a German ''Gymnasium'' in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Hesse **

Humboldt Box The Humboldt Box (german: Humboldt-Box) was a futuristic museum structure on the Schloßplatz in the center of Berlin, Germany. It was built as a temporary exhibition space and viewing platform for the Humboldt Forum construction project and to ...

, a museum and information center in Berlin, Germany ** For 60 years (1949-2009), ''Humboldt Museum'' was a popular name referring to the Berlin's Natural History Museum, in Germany **

Humboldt University of Berlin Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (german: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a German public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin. It was established by Frederick William III on the initiative o ...

(Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) ** Maschinenbau Anstalt Humboldt, mechanical engineering firm in Cologne-Kalk 1871–1930 * Canada **

Humboldt Broncos The Humboldt Broncos are a Canadian junior "A" ice hockey team from Humboldt, Saskatchewan. Established in 1970, the Broncos play in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League. History The Broncos were established in 1970 by a group of local organ ...

, an ice hockey team from Humboldt, Saskatchewan * US: **

Humboldt State University California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt also known as Cal Poly Humboldt, Humboldt or Cal Poly"Cal Poly" may also refer to California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, California or California State Polytechnic Universi ...

, California ** Humboldt High School (disambiguation), several high schools in the United States *

Alexander von Humboldt German International School Montreal The Alexander von Humboldt German International School Montreal (AvH) is an international private co-educationnal multilingual (German, English and French) school located in Baie-D'Urfé, Quebec, a West Island suburb of Montreal. It was founded in ...

, Canada

Biological groups

Animals

Vesper bat Vespertilionidae is a family of microbats, of the order Chiroptera, flying, insect-eating mammals variously described as the common, vesper, or simple nosed bats. The vespertilionid family is the most diverse and widely distributed of bat familie ...

(Humboldt's big-eared brown bat) (''Histiotus humboldti'') * Woolly monkey (Humboldt's woolly monkey) (''Lagothrix lagotricha'') * Squirrel monkey (Humboldt's squirrel monkey) (''Saimiri sciureus cassiquiarensis'') * Humboldt penguin (''Spheniscus humboldti'') * Humboldt's hog-nosed skunk (''Conepatus humboldtii'') *

Golden-backed uakari The golden-backed uakari (''Cacajao melanocephalus'') or black-headed uakari, is a New World primate from the family Pitheciidae. It lives in the Amazon Rainforest, and is found in the countries of Brazil, Colombia, and Venezuela. It has black ...

(''Cacajao melanocephalus'') * Humboldt squid (''Dosidicus gigas'') * Amazon river dolphin subspecies (''Inia geoffrensis humboldtiana'')

Plants

* ''Anthurium humboldtianum'', a species of arum * ''

Utricularia humboldtii ''Utricularia humboldtii'' is a large perennial carnivorous plant that belongs to the genus ''Utricularia''. Peter Taylor lists it as either an "aquatic-epiphyte", a subaquatic or a terrestrial species. ''U. humboldtii'' is endemic to South ...

'', a large perennial carnivorous plant * '' Mammillaria humboldtii'', a cactus species * ''

Lilium humboldtii ''Lilium humboldtii'', or Humboldt's lily, is a species of lily native to the US state of California and the Mexican state of Baja California. It is named after naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt. It is native to the South High Cascad ...

'', Humboldt's lily * ''Russula humboldtii'', a mushroom species * ''

Quercus humboldtii ''Quercus humboldtii'', commonly known as the Andean oak, Colombian oak or roble, is a species of oak found only in Colombia and Panamá. It is named for Alexander von Humboldt. Description ''Quercus humboldtii'' is an evergreen tree which gro ...

'', a South American oak * ''

Myrmecophila humboldtii ''Myrmecophila humboldtii'' is a species of orchid. The species is named after Alexander von Humboldt. Its natural distribution is from Venezuela and the ABC islands (Bonaire and Curaçao; apparently extinct in Aruba Aruba ( , , ), official ...

'', an orchid species

Ships

* ''Alexander von Humboldt'' (ship), a German tall ship * USS ''Humboldt'' (AVP-21), a United States Navy seaplane tender in commission from 1941 to 1947 * USCGC ''Humboldt'' (WAVP-372), later WHEC-372, a United States Coast Guard cutter in commission from 1949 to 1969 * ''Humboldt'' (steamer), an 1896 wooden steamer on the Alaska route, that also sailed between Los Angeles and San Francisco

In space

* 4877 Humboldt, asteroid *

54 Alexandra Alexandra ( minor planet designation: 54 Alexandra) is a carbonaceous asteroid from the intermediate asteroid belt, approximately 155 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered by German-French astronomer Hermann Goldschmidt on 10 September 1858, ...

, asteroid *

Humboldt (crater) Humboldt is a large lunar impact crater that is located near the eastern limb of the Moon. Due to foreshortening this formation has an extremely oblong appearance. The actual shape of the crater is an irregular circle, with a significant indenta ...

on the Moon *

Mare Humboldtianum Mare Humboldtianum (Latin ''humboldtiānum'', the "Sea of Alexander von Humboldt") is a lunar mare located just to the east of Mare Frigoris, in the center of Humboldtianum basin. It is located along the northeastern limb of the Moon, and cont ...

, lunar mare (sea)

Venezuela

* El Ávila National Park (Hotel Humboldt), a hotel in Caracas * Sima Humboldt, a sinkhole in Venezuela *

in Venezuela *

, at

in Venezuela

Other uses

Humboldt Airport Humboldt Airport is located south of Humboldt, Saskatchewan, Canada. See also *List of airports in Saskatchewan This is a list of airports in Saskatchewan. It includes all Nav Canada certified and registered water and land airports, ...

, Saskatchewan, Canada *

Humboldt Broncos bus crash On April 6, 2018, sixteen people were killed and thirteen were injured when a northbound coach bus struck a westbound semi-trailer truck near Armley, Saskatchewan, Canada. The driver of the semi-truck had failed to yield at a flashing stop ...

, which occurred near Humboldt, Saskatchewan * Humboldt Prize, for research