Stevens
Encyclopedia

People

  • Stevens (surname)
    Stevens (surname)
    -Literature:*Henry Stevens , U.S. bibliographer*Benjamin Franklin Stevens , U.S. bibliographer*Brooke Stevens, U.S. fantasy and thriller writer*Wallace Stevens , U.S. poet*Barry Stevens , writer, Gestalt therapist...

    , including a list of people with the surname
  • Stevens Baker
    Stevens Baker
    Stevens Baker was a farmer and political figure in Quebec. He represented Missisquoi in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1830 to 1834....

     (1791-1868), farmer and member of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada
  • Stevens T. Mason
    Stevens T. Mason
    Stevens Thomson Mason , also known as Stevens T. Mason, Tom Mason, The Boy Governor, and lesser known nicknames Young Hotspur and The Stripling, was the territorial governor of the Michigan Territory, and later the first Governor of the state of Michigan. Mason guided the Michigan Territory into...

     (1811-1843), territorial governor of the Michigan Territory, first governor of the state of Michigan
  • Stevens Thomson Mason (Virginia)
    Stevens Thomson Mason (Virginia)
    Stevens Thomson Mason was a Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, a member of the Virginia state legislature and a Republican U.S. Senator from Virginia .-Early life and military career:...

     (1760-1803), a colonel in the American Continental Army and senator from Virginia, grandfather of the above

Places

  • Stevens, California
    Stevens, California
    Stevens is an unincorporated community in Kern County, California. It is located on the Southern Pacific Railroad west-northwest of Bakersfield, at an elevation of 341 feet ....

    , an unincorporated community
  • Stevens, Pennsylvania
    Stevens, Pennsylvania
    Stevens, Pennsylvania is an unincorporated community in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA. The Stevens post office is zip code 17578. Stevens was named in honor of Thaddeus Stevens.-Local businesses:...

    , an unincorporated community
  • Stevens County, Kansas
    Stevens County, Kansas
    Stevens County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas. As of the 2010 census, the county population was 5,724. Its county seat is Hugoton...

  • Stevens County, Minnesota
    Stevens County, Minnesota
    As of the census of 2000, there were 10,053 people, 3,751 households, and 2,366 families residing in the county. The population density was 18 people per square mile . There were 4,074 housing units at an average density of 7 per square mile...

  • Stevens County, Washington
  • Stevens Park (disambiguation), multiple locations
  • Stevens Point, Wisconsin
    Stevens Point, Wisconsin
    Stevens Point is the county seat of Portage County, Wisconsin, United States. Located in the central part of the state, it is the largest city in the county, with a population of 24,551 at the 2000 census...

  • Stevens Township, Stevens County, Minnesota
  • Stevens Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania
  • Stevens Village, Alaska
    Stevens Village, Alaska
    Stevens Village is a census-designated place in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska, United States. The population was 87 at the 2000 census.-Geography:...

    , a census-designated place
  • Lake Stevens, Washington
    Lake Stevens, Washington
    Lake Stevens is a city in Snohomish County, Washington, United States that surrounds the lake bearing the same name. It is southeast of Marysville, north of the city of Snohomish, and east of Everett...

    , a lake and the surrounding city
  • Stevens Creek
    Stevens Creek
    Stevens Creek is a creek in Santa Clara County, California. The creek originates in the Santa Cruz Mountains on the western flank of Black Mountain in the Monte Bello Open Space Preserve, then flows southeasterly through the Stevens Creek County Park before turning northeast into Stevens Creek...

    , various creeks
  • Stevens Pass
    Stevens Pass
    Stevens Pass is a mountain pass through the Cascade Mountains located at the border of King County and Chelan County in Washington, United States....

    , a pass through the Cascade Mountains in Washington
  • Stevens Knoll
    Stevens Knoll
    Stevens Knoll is a hill named for Captain Greenleaf T. Stevens and adjacent to Culp's Hill on the Gettysburg Battlefield that was a Battle of Gettysburg emplacement of Union artillery....

    , a hill that played a part in the Civil War Battle of Gettysburg
  • Stevens Rock
    Stevens Rock
    Stevens Rock is a small, lone bare rock 1.5 nautical miles east of Strahan Glacier and 1 nautical mile off the coast. Discovered in February 1931 by the British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition under Mawson, who named it for Commander C.W. Stevens, Hydrographic...

    , Antartica
  • 38540 Stevens
    38540 Stevens
    38540 Stevens is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 5, 1999 by D. S. Dixon at Jornada Observatory.- External links :*...

    , an asteroid

Military

  • Fort Stevens (Oregon)
    Fort Stevens (Oregon)
    Fort Stevens was an American military installation that guarded the mouth of the Columbia River in the state of Oregon. Built near the end of the American Civil War, it was named for slain Civil War general and former Washington Territory governor, Isaac Stevens. The fort was an active military...

  • Fort Stevens (Washington, D.C.)
    Fort Stevens (Washington, D.C.)
    Fort Stevens was part of the extensive fortifications built around Washington, D.C., during the American Civil War. It was constructed in 1861 as "Fort Massachusetts" and later enlarged by the Union Army and renamed "Fort Stevens" after Brig. Gen...

  • Battle of Fort Stevens
    Battle of Fort Stevens
    The Battle of Fort Stevens was an American Civil War battle fought July 11–12, 1864, in Northwest Washington, D.C., as part of the Valley Campaigns of 1864 between forces under Confederate Lt. Gen. Jubal A. Early and Union Maj. Gen. Alexander McD. McCook. Although Early caused consternation...

     (1864)
  • USS Stevens (DD-86)
    USS Stevens (DD-86)
    USS Stevens was a Wickes class destroyer in the United States Navy during the World War I. She was the first ship named for Thomas Holdup Stevens....

    , U.S. Navy World War I destroyer
  • USS Stevens (DD-479)
    USS Stevens (DD-479)
    USS Stevens , a Fletcher-class destroyer, was the second ship of that name in the United States Navy. This ship was named for both Rear Admiral Thomas H. Stevens, Jr...

    , U.S. Navy World War II destroyer

Schools

  • Stevens High School (disambiguation)
  • Stevens Institute of Technology
    Stevens Institute of Technology
    Stevens Institute of Technology is a technological university located on a campus in Hoboken, New Jersey, USA – founded in 1870 with an 1868 bequest from Edwin A. Stevens. It is known for its engineering, science, and technological management curricula.The institute has produced leading...

    , Hoboken, New Jersey

Businesses

  • Stevens Arms
    Stevens Arms
    Stevens Arms was an American firearms manufacturer founded by Joshua Stevens in 1864. The company introduced the .22 Long Rifle round and made a number of rifle, shotgun, and target pistol designs before being bought by Savage Arms in 1920. After 1920, Stevens made training rifles and machineguns...

    , American firearms maker
  • Stevens Motorcycles, a British company that made motorcycles from 1934 to 1938
  • Stevens Vehicles
    Stevens Vehicles
    The ZeCar is a 5-door hatchback with a twin AC induction brushless and maintenance free electric engine, giving the car 140 lb ft of torque. There is a maintenance-free toothed belt drive to the rear wheels...

    , a British electric car and van manufacturer

Automotive

  • Stevens (constructor)
    Stevens (constructor)
    Stevens was an American racing car constructor. Stevens cars competed in six FIA World Championship races - the and - Indianapolis 500.-World Championship Indianapolis 500 results:...

    , a former racing car constructor
  • Stevens-Duryea
    Stevens-Duryea
    Stevens-Duryea was an American manufacturer of automobiles in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts between 1901 and 1915 and from 1919 to 1927.The company was founded after a falling-out between J. Frank Duryea and his brother Charles in 1898...

    , early U.S. car

Other uses

  • Stevens Inquiries, a British government report
  • Stevens technique
    Stevens technique
    The Stevens technique is a method of playing keyboard percussion instruments with four mallets – two in each hand. It was developed by marimba player Leigh Howard Stevens during his studies at the Eastman School of Music in the 1970s, and codified in his 1979 book Method of Movement for...

    , a percussion performance method
  • Stevens' power law
    Stevens' power law
    Stevens' power law is a proposed relationship between the magnitude of a physical stimulus and its perceived intensity or strength. It is often considered to supersede the Weber–Fechner law on the basis that it describes a wider range of sensations, although critics argue that the validity of the...

    , a psychophysical theory
  • Stevens MRT Station
    Stevens MRT Station
    Stevens MRT station is an underground Mass Rapid Transit station on the Downtown Line Stage 2 in Singapore, formerly known as the Bukit Timah Line. The station will be serving the Stevens area along the Bukit Timah corridor, that is largely residential area at the confluence of Bukit Timah Road,...

    , a mass rapid transit station in Singapore
  • Stevens Field
    Stevens Field
    Stevens Field is a public-use airport located two miles northwest of the central business district of Pagosa Springs, Colorado, United States. This general aviation airport is publicly owned by Archuleta County.-External links:* at Archuleta County website...

    , an airfield in Colorado
  • SS Stevens
    SS Stevens
    SS Stevens, a , 14,893-ton ship, served as a floating dormitory from 1968 to 1975 for about 150 students of Stevens Institute of Technology, a technological university, in Hoboken, NJ...

    , a floating dormitory
  • Stevens Center
    Stevens Center
    The Roger L. Stevens Center is the primary performance venue in downtown Winston-Salem and is owned and operated by the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. It is named after the theatre producer and real estate magnate Roger L. Stevens and was opened on April 22, 1983...

    , a performance venue in Winston-Salem
The source of this article is wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
 
x
OK