Humboldt may refer to:

People

Alexander von Humboldt Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (14 September 1769 – 6 May 1859) was a German polymath, geographer, natural history, naturalist, List of explorers, explorer, and proponent of Romanticism, Romantic philosophy and Romanticism ...

, German natural scientist, brother of Wilhelm von Humboldt *

Wilhelm von Humboldt Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand von Humboldt (22 June 1767 – 8 April 1835) was a German philosopher, linguist, government functionary, diplomat, and founder of the Humboldt University of Berlin. In 1949, the university was named aft ...

, 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 inten ...

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

Corner Gas ''Corner Gas'' is a Canadian television sitcom created by Brent Butt. The series ran for six seasons from 2004 to 2009. Reruns still air on CTV, CTV2, CTV Comedy Channel, Much, E! and are streaming on Crave and Amazon Prime. The series ...

Places

Argentina

* Humboldt, Argentina, a town in Santa Fe Province, Argentina

Australia

* Humboldt, Queensland, 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 Saskatchewan Highway 5, Highway 5 and Saskatchewan Highway 20, Highway 20. The city is surrounded by the Rural Municipali ...

* Rural Municipality of Humboldt No. 370, Saskatchewan *

Humboldt (federal 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 North-West Territories. When Saskatchewan became a province in 1905, H ...

, a former federal electoral district *

Humboldt (provincial electoral district) Humboldt was a provinces and territories of Canada, provincial electoral district (Canada), electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan, Canada. Located in central Saskatchewan, this constituency was one of 25 created for th ...

, a former Saskatchewan provincial electoral district

United States

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

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 102 people over the 2010 total. History Frank A. Gotch Park (just south of present-day Humboldt and Dakota City) was ...

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, originally an American settlement named after ...

Humboldt, Minnesota Humboldt is a city in Kittson County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 41 at the 2020 census. History A post office called Humboldt has been in operation since 1896. The city is reportedly named after Alexander von Humboldt, who ...

Humboldt, Nebraska Humboldt is a city in Richardson County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 800 at the 2020 census. History Humboldt was platted in 1868. It was named after Humboldt, Tennessee, where an early settler had stayed while fighting in ...

** Humboldt, Ohio **

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 A scenic viewpoint—also called an observ ...

** Humboldt, Pennsylvania ** Humboldt, South Dakota **

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, whic ...

** 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 community name was chosen by Henry Fontaine.Town Of Humboldt Sesquicentennial 1860-2010, pg 9 Communities * Humboldt is an uni ...

, town ***

Humboldt (community), Wisconsin Humboldt is a town in Brown County, Wisconsin, Brown County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The population was 1,311 at the 2010 census. The community name was chosen by Henry Fontaine.Town Of Humboldt Sesquicentennial 1860-2010, pg 9 Communitie ...

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

Humboldt County, California Humboldt County () is a county (United States), county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 136,463. The county seat is Eureka, California, Eureka. Humboldt County compri ...

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Humboldt County, Iowa Humboldt County is a County (United States), county in the U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 9,597. The county seat is Dakota City, Iowa, Dakota City. The county was created in 1857 and nam ...

***

Humboldt County, Nevada Humboldt County is a county in the U.S. state of Nevada. As of the 2020 Census, the population was 17,285. It is a largely rural county that is sparsely populated with the only major city being Winnemucca which has a population of 8,431. Hum ...

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 ...

* 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 cross ...

, ruins of mining settlement * Humboldt Industrial Area, Minneapolis *

Humboldt Park, Chicago Humboldt Park, one of 77 designated Community areas of Chicago, community areas, is on the West Side, Chicago, West Side of Chicago, Illinois. The Humboldt Park Neighborhoods in Chicago, neighborhood is known for its dynamic social and ethnic ...

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

Other

* Guevea de Humboldt, Oaxaca, Mexico

Geographical features

Mountains

* In United States: **

Humboldt Peak (Colorado) Humboldt Peak is a high mountain summit of the Crestones in the Sangre de Cristo Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The fourteener is located in the Sangre de Cristo Wilderness of San Isabel National Forest, south-southwest ( ...

** 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 southwest from its source just north of the range. The range reac ...

**** Humboldt Peak (Nevada) ***

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 Intersta ...

*** West Humboldt Range *

Humboldt Mountains (Antarctica) The Humboldt Mountains () are a group of mountains immediately west of the Petermann Ranges (Antarctica), Petermann Ranges, forming the westernmost portion of the Wohlthat Mountains in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. Discovery and naming The mountai ...

, 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 ...

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. Its displays interpret the former U.S. Army fort, which was staffed from 1853 to 1870, the interactions between European Americans and Nat ...

, 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 ...

***

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 coast redwoods. It is located south of Eureka, California, near Weott in ...

** Nevada: *** Humboldt Wildlife Management Area *** Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest ** Buffalo, New York: *** Humboldt Park, now Martin Luther King, Jr. Park *** Humboldt Parkway, repurposed **

Humboldt Park (Chicago park) Humboldt Park is an urban park located at 1400 North Sacramento Avenue in West Town, Chicago, West Town, on the West Side, Chicago, West Side of Chicago, Illinois. To its west is the neighborhood named after it, also called Humboldt Park, Chica ...

* Parque Nacional Alejandro de Humboldt in Cuba * Monumento Nacional Alejandro de Humboldt, 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 () 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 Humboldt Glacier borders ...

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

Humboldt Bay Humboldt Bay (Wiyot language, Wiyot: ''Wigi'') is a natural bay and a multi-basin, bar-built coastal lagoon located on the rugged North Coast (California), North Coast of California, entirely within Humboldt County, California, Humboldt County, ...

, California **** Humboldt Bay, AKA

Yos Sudarso Bay Yos Sudarso Bay (), known as Humboldt Bay from 1827 to 1968, is a small bay on the north coast of New Guinea, about 50 kilometers west of the border between Indonesia's province of Papua (Indonesian province), Papua and the country of Papua New Gu ...

, 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 pro ...

or Peru Current of the Pacific * On land: ** Humboldt Falls, Fiordland, New Zealand ** Humboldt River basin, Nevada, United States: ***

Humboldt River The Humboldt River is the longest river in the northern and central part of Nevada. It extends in a general east-to-west direction from its headwaters in northern Nevada's Jarbidge Mountains, Jarbidge, Independence Mountains, Independence, and ...

*** Little Humboldt River *** Humboldt Salt Marsh ***

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 i ...

*** Lake Humboldt

Organizations and institutions

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

Mexico City Mexico City is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Mexico, largest city of Mexico, as well as the List of North American cities by population, most populous city in North America. It is one of the most important cultural and finan ...

**** Colegio Humboldt,

Puebla Puebla, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Puebla, is one of the 31 states that, along with Mexico City, comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 217 municipalities and its capital is Puebla City. Part of east-centr ...

, Mexico *** Colégio Humboldt,

São Paulo, Brazil SAO or Sao may refer to: Places * Sao civilisation, in Middle Africa from 6th century BC to 16th century AD * Sao, a town in Boussé Department, Burkina Faso * Serb Autonomous Regions (''Srpska autonomna oblast'', SAO), during the breakup of Yu ...

*** Colegio Humboldt,

Caracas Caracas ( , ), officially Santiago de León de Caracas (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 northern p ...

, Venezuela ** Humboldt Shipmanagement,

Valparaíso Valparaíso () is a major city, Communes of Chile, commune, Port, seaport, and naval base facility in the Valparaíso Region of Chile. Valparaíso was originally named after Valparaíso de Arriba, in Castilla–La Mancha, Castile-La Mancha, Spain ...

, Chile **

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

, Venezuela ** Colegio Alemán Alexander von Humboldt,

Lima, Peru Lima ( ; ), founded in 1535 as the Ciudad de los Reyes (, Spanish for "City of Biblical Magi, Kings"), is the capital and largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón River, Chillón, Rímac River, Rímac and Lurín Rive ...

* Germany: **

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation () is a foundation that promotes international academic cooperation between scientists and scholars from Germany and abroad. Established by the government of the Federal Republic of Germany, it is funded by t ...

, a German foundation for the promotion of international research cooperation **

Humboldtschule, Bad Homburg The (abbreviation: ''HUS''; ) 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 von Humboldt (1767–1 ...

, a German ''Gymnasium'' in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Hesse ** Humboldt Box, 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 The Humboldt University of Berlin (, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin, Germany. The university was established by Frederick William III on the initiative of Wilhelm von Humbol ...

(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. The Broncos have won the SJHL ten times (1972, 1973, 1986, 1987, 1989, 2 ...

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

Cal Poly Humboldt California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt (Cal Poly Humboldt or Humboldt) is a public university in Arcata, California. It is one of three polytechnic universities in the California State University (CSU) system and the northernmost c ...

, California **

Humboldt High School (disambiguation) Humboldt High School may refer to: *Humboldt High School (Iowa) — Humboldt, Iowa *Humboldt High School (Kansas) — Humboldt, Kansas *Humboldt High School (Tennessee) — Humboldt, Tennessee *Humboldt Senior High School — Saint ...

, several high schools in the United States * Alexander von Humboldt German International School Montreal, 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 famili ...

(Humboldt's big-eared brown bat) (''Histiotus humboldti'') *

Woolly monkey The woolly monkeys are the genus ''Lagothrix'' of New World monkeys, usually placed in the family Atelidae. Both species in this genus originate from the rainforests of South America. They have prehensile tails and live in relatively large soci ...

(Humboldt's woolly monkey) (''Lagothrix lagotricha'') *

Squirrel monkey Squirrel monkeys are New World monkeys of the genus ''Saimiri''. ''Saimiri'' is the only genus in the subfamily Saimiriinae. The name of the genus is of Tupi origin (''sai-mirím'' or ''çai-mbirín'', with ''sai'' meaning 'monkey' and ''mirím' ...

(Humboldt's squirrel monkey) (''Saimiri sciureus cassiquiarensis'') *

Humboldt penguin The Humboldt penguin (''Spheniscus humboldti'') is a medium-sized penguin. It resides in South America, along the Pacific coast of Peru and Chile. Its nearest relatives are the African penguin, the Magellanic penguin and the Galápagos penguin. ...

(''Spheniscus humboldti'') *

Humboldt's hog-nosed skunk Humboldt's hog-nosed skunk (''Conepatus humboldtii''), also known as the Patagonian hog-nosed skunk, is a species of hog-nosed skunk indigenous to the open grassy areas in the Patagonian regions of South Argentina and Chile. It belongs to the o ...

(''Conepatus humboldtii'') * Golden-backed uakari (''Cacajao melanocephalus'') *

Humboldt squid The Humboldt squid (''Dosidicus gigas''), also known as jumbo squid or jumbo flying squid, is a large, predatory squid living in the eastern Pacific Ocean. It is the Monotypic taxon, only known species of the genus ''Dosidicus'' of the subfamily ...

(''Dosidicus gigas'') *

Amazon river dolphin The Amazon river dolphin (''Inia geoffrensis''), also known as the boto, bufeo or pink river dolphin, is a species of toothed whale Endemism, endemic to South America and is classified in the family Iniidae. Three subspecies are currently recogni ...

subspecies (''Inia geoffrensis humboldtiana'')

Plants

* ''Anthurium humboldtianum'', a species of arum * '' Utricularia humboldtii'', 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'', a South American oak * '' Myrmecophila humboldtii'', 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 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, and named after the German explorer A ...

, 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 inden ...

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 The Ávila National Park, officially known as Waraira Repano National Park for its indigenous Island Caribs, Cariban name, protects part of the Cordillera de la Costa Central mountain range, in the coastal region of central-northern Venezuela. T ...

(Hotel Humboldt), a hotel in Caracas * Sima Humboldt, a sinkhole in Venezuela *

in Venezuela * Monumento Nacional Alejandro de Humboldt, at

in Venezuela

Other uses

* Humboldt Airport, Saskatchewan, Canada *

Humboldt Broncos bus crash On April 6, 2018, 16 people were killed and 13 were injured when a northbound Coach (bus), coach bus struck a westbound semi-trailer truck that blew through a stop sign near Armley, Saskatchewan, Armley, Saskatchewan, Canada. The driver of th ...

, which occurred near Humboldt, Saskatchewan *

Humboldt Prize The Humboldt Research Award (), also known informally as the Humboldt Prize, is an award given by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany to internationally renowned scientists and scholars who work outside of Germany in recognition of ...

, for research

People

Fictional characters

Places

Argentina

Australia

Canada

United States

Transportation

Other

Geographical features

Mountains

Parks, forests, nature preserves

Water and ice features

Organizations and institutions

Biological groups

Animals

Plants

Ships

In space

Venezuela

Other uses

See also