Huron (disambiguation)

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Huron refers to the Wyandot indigenous people of North America and to the Huron language of the Wyandot.

Contents 1 Places 1.1 Towns 1.2 Townships 1.3 Counties 1.4 Bodies of Water 1.5 Parks, Forests, Mountains 2 Educational institutions 3 Other uses

[edit] Places

Huron is also the name of several places in the United States of America and in Canada:

[edit] Towns

• Huron, California
• Huron, Indiana
• Huron, Kansas
• Huron, Ohio
• Huron, New York
• Huron, South Dakota
• Huron, Tennessee
• Hurontown, Michigan
• Huron Beach, Michigan
• Huron City, Michigan
• Huron Mountain, Michigan
• Port Huron, Michigan

[edit] Townships

• Huron Charter Township, Michigan, in Wayne County
• Huron Township, Iowa
• Huron Township, Michigan, in Huron County
• Huron Township, North Dakota
• Huron Township, Erie County, Ohio
• Huron Township, South Dakota
• Port Huron Township, Michigan

[edit] Counties

• Huron County, Michigan
• Huron County, Ohio
• Huron County, Ontario

[edit] Bodies of Water

• Huron River (Michigan), three different rivers in Michigan
• Huron River (Ohio), a river in Ohio
• Huron Swamp in Springfield Township, Oakland County, Michigan
• Lake Huron, one of the North American Great Lakes

[edit] Parks, Forests, Mountains

• Huron National Forest in Michigan
• Huron National Wildlife Refuge in Michigan on Lake Superior
• Huron Mountains, a modest range of mountains in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan

[edit] Educational institutions

• Huron University, a former institution in South Dakota
• Huron University College, a confederated college of the University of Western Ontario
• Huron University USA in London, an American institution in the United Kingdom, formerly affiliatiated with Huron University in South Dakota and since become independent

[edit] Other uses

• Port Huron Statement, the manifesto of the American student activist movement Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
• Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi, a band of Potawatomi American Indians, based in Calhoun County, Michigan), are also known as the Huron Potawatomi
• USS Huron (CA-9) was a US Navy armored cruiser
• HMCS Huron (G24), a World War II Tribal class destroyer
• HMCS Huron (DDH 281), Iroquois class destroyer active from 1972 to 2005
• C-12 Huron aircraft
• "Hurón", either Galictis vittata or Galictis cuja, two related ferret-like mammals from Central and South America
• Huron High School in Ann Arbor, Michigan