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Antarctica

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Mount Sumner The Latady Mountains () are a group of mountains rising west of Gardner Inlet and between Wetmore Glacier and Ketchum Glacier, in southeastern Palmer Land, Antarctica. Location The Latady Mountains are in the southeast of Palmer Land. They ar ...
, a mountain in the Rare Range, Antarctica * Sumner Glacier, southern Graham Land, Antarctica


Australia

* Sumner, Queensland, a suburb of Brisbane


New Zealand

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Sumner, New Zealand Sumner is a coastal seaside suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand, and was surveyed and named in 1849 in honour of John Bird Sumner, the newly appointed Archbishop of Canterbury and president of the Canterbury Association. Originally a separate ...
, a seaside suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand * Archdeacon of Sumner, Anglican Diocese of Christchurch, Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia * Lake Sumner


United States

* Sumner, California, a former town, now East Bakersfield, California *
Sumner, Florida Sumner is an unincorporated community in Levy County, Florida, United States. It is located on State Road 24, approximately southwest of Rosewood Rosewood is any of a number of richly hued hardwoods, often brownish with darker veining, bu ...
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Sumner, Georgia Sumner is a town in Worth County, Georgia, United States. The population was 445 in 2020, up from 427 in 2010. It is part of the Albany, Georgia metropolitan statistical area. Sumner High School is listed on the National Register of Historic ...
, a town * Sumner, Illinois, a city *
Sumner, Iowa Sumner is a city in Bremer County, Iowa, United States. The city is located along the county's eastern border, between Bremer and Fayette counties. The population was 2,030 at the time of the 2020 census. The Bremer County portion of Sumner is ...
, a city * Sumner, Maine, a town * Sumner, Michigan, an unincorporated community in Sumner Township *
Sumner, Mississippi Sumner is a town in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi. The population was 407 at the 2000 census. Sumner is one of the two county seats of Tallahatchie County. It is located on the west side of the county and the Tallahatchie River, which runs th ...
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Sumner, Missouri Sumner is a city in Chariton County, Missouri, United States. The population was 78 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. It was named in honor of U.S. Senator Charles Sumner. History The area along the Grand River (Missouri), Grand Riv ...
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Sumner, Nebraska Sumner is a village in Dawson County, Nebraska Nebraska ( ) is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders South Dakota to the north; Iowa to the east and Missouri t ...
, a village * Sumner, Oklahoma, an unincorporated community and census-designated place *
Sumner, Oregon Sumner is an unincorporated community in Coos County, Oregon, United States. It is about southeast of Coos Bay on the route of the old Coos Bay Wagon Road. According to William Gladstone Steel, the community was founded in 1888 by John B. Da ...
, an unincorporated community * Sumner, Portland, Oregon, a neighborhood * Sumner, Texas, an unincorporated community *
Sumner, Washington Sumner is a city in northern Pierce County, Washington, United States. The population was 10,621 at the 2020 census. Nearby cities include Puyallup to the west, Auburn to the north, and Bonney Lake to the east. History Sumner was founde ...
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Sumner, Barron County, Wisconsin The Town"Towns" in Wisconsin perform most of the same functions as townships in many other states. see 'Wisconsin Blue Book 2022,' Town, pp 354-355 of Sumner is located in Barron County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The population was 699 at th ...
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Sumner (community), Barron County, Wisconsin The Town"Towns" in Wisconsin perform most of the same functions as townships in many other states. see 'Wisconsin Blue Book 2022,' Town, pp 354-355 of Sumner is located in Barron County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The population was 699 at th ...
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Sumner, Jefferson County, Wisconsin Sumner is a town in Jefferson County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 832 at the 2010 census. The census-designated place of Lake Koshkonong and the unincorporated communities of Busseyville, Carcajou, Glenn Oaks Beach, Koshkonong ...
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Sumner, Trempealeau County, Wisconsin Sumner is a town in Trempealeau County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 806 at the 2000 census. History The town was named for Charles Sumner, a politician who was a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts and ally of Abraham Lincoln. Geog ...
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Sumner County, Kansas Sumner County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas. Its county seat is Wellington. As of the 2020 census, the population was 22,382. The county is named after Charles Sumner, a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts who was a leader of ...
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Sumner County, Tennessee Sumner County is a county located on the central northern border of Tennessee in the United States. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 196,281. Its county seat is Gallatin, and its most populous city is Hendersonville. T ...
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Sumner Township (disambiguation) Sumner Township may refer to: Illinois * Sumner Township, Kankakee County, Illinois * Sumner Township, Warren County, Illinois Iowa * Sumner Township, Buchanan County, Iowa * Sumner Township, Iowa County, Iowa * Sumner Township, Webster Coun ...
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Fort Sumner Fort Sumner was a Fortification, military fort in New Mexico Territory charged with the internment of Navajo and Mescalero, Mescalero Apache populations from 1863 to 1868 at nearby Bosque Redondo. History On October 31, 1862, Congress of the ...
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Fort Sumner (Maine) Fort Sumner was a coastal defense fortification on Munjoy Hill in Portland, Maine, United States. It was built in 1794 as part of the first system of coastal fortifications built by the United States. It was reportedly originally named Fort Al ...
, a coastal defense fortification built in Portland, Maine, in 1794 *
Fort Sumner (Maryland) Fort Sumner was built during the American Civil War by the Union Army in the Brookmont section of Bethesda, Maryland, just northwest of Washington, D.C. Construction The earthwork fort was an 1863 expansion of Fort Alexander, Fort Ripley, and ...
, a Civil War fort in Bethesda, Maryland * Sumner Strait, Alaska


Outer space

* Sumner (crater), a crater on the Moon


People

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Sumner (given name) Sumner is a given name. Notable people with the name include: * Sumner Archibald Cunningham (1843–1913), American Confederate veteran and newspaper editor. * Sumner Gerard, American businessman and diplomat, US Ambassador to Jamaica * Sumner Pain ...
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Sumner (surname) Sumner is a surname. It originates from the English-language word that is spelt, in modern English, ''summoner'', denoting a person who serves a summons. In Geoffrey Chaucer's ''The Canterbury Tales'', one of the characters is a summoner (see " Th ...
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Sumner family The Sumner family is a prominent political and agricultural family based throughout the eastern United States in what was formally known as the Thirteen Colonies, primarily in Massachusetts, Virginia, North Carolina, and Georgia (U.S. state), Geor ...
, a prominent family in the Eastern United States


Schools


United States

* Sumner College, a private for-profit nursing school in Portland, Oregon * Sumner High School (disambiguation) *
Abbe Creek School The historic Abbe Creek School is a one-room schoolhouse museum located one mile west of Mt. Vernon, Iowa, on E48. It is believed to be the oldest standing one room brick schoolhouse in Iowa.Booklet prepared by Linn County Historical Museum The ...
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Sumner Elementary School The Sumner Elementary School in Topeka, Kansas was involved in the '' Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka'' case in 1954. Linda Brown's attempted enrollment to the Sumner School was rejected by the Topeka Board of Education, thus forcing her ...
, Topeka, Kansas, involved in the ''Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka'' case in 1954


New Zealand

* Van Asch College, formerly Sumner School for the Deaf, Sumner, Christchurch


Ships

* USS ''Sumner'', multiple ships * ''Allen M. Sumner''-class destroyer, a World War II United States Navy class * SS ''Charles Sumner'', a World War II
Liberty ship Liberty ships were a ship class, class of cargo ship built in the United States during World War II under the Emergency Shipbuilding Program. Although British in concept, the design was adopted by the United States for its simple, low-cost cons ...
* SS ''William G. Sumner'', a cargo ship acquired by the United States Navy in World War II and renamed USS ''Alkaid''


Transportation

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Sumner Bridge Sumner Bridge is a historic structure located in Sumner, Iowa, United States. It spans the Little Wapsipinicon River for . with In June 1916 the Fayette County Board of Supervisors agreed with the supervisors in Bremer County to build this b ...
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Sumner Tunnel The Sumner Tunnel is a road tunnel in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It carries traffic under Boston Harbor in one direction, from Logan International Airport and Route 1A in East Boston. The tunnel originally deposited traffic at the ...
, a vehicular tunnel in Boston, Massachusetts * Sumner station, a train station in Sumner, Washington * Sumner Avenue station (BMT Lexington Avenue Line), a former New York City Subway station in Brooklyn * Sumner Avenue station (BMT Myrtle Avenue Line), a former New York City Subway station also in Brooklyn


Other uses

* Viscount Sumner, a title in the British peerage * Sumner (band), an Australian R&B-inspired electronic duo *
Sumner Dam Sumner Dam is a dam on the Pecos River in De Baca County in eastern New Mexico. The dam was built by the United States Bureau of Reclamation between 1935 and 1939, a project governed by the Bureau in conjunction with the local Carlsbad Irrigation ...
, on the Pecos River in New Mexico * Sumner Group, a sedimentary geologic group of Lower Permian age in Kansas, Oklahoma and Nebraska * '' Sumner v. Shuman'', a 1987 United States Supreme Court case


See also

* * Lord Sumner (disambiguation) * Bank of Sumner, a historic building in Sumner, Iowa, United States * Sumner method, a way of finding a ship's location at sea * Summer (disambiguation) * Summoner (disambiguation) * Sumner Hill (disambiguation) {{disambiguation, geo, schools, ships