Muir

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"Muir" is the Scots word for "moorland", and Scots Gaelic for "sea", and is the etymological origin of the surname and Clan Muir/Mure/Moore in Scotland and other parts of the world.

Places

United States

• Muir, Contra Costa County, California, an unincorporated community
• Muir, Willits, California, a former unincorporated community now incorporated in Willits
• Muir, Michigan, a village
• Muir, Pennsylvania, a census-designated place
• Camp Muir, a high altitude refuge on Mount Rainier, Washington
• Mount Muir in the Sierra Nevada
• Muir Pass in the Sierra Nevada
• Muir Army Airfield, a military airfield near Annville, Pennsylvania
• Muir Glacier, Alaska
• Muir Grove, a giant sequoia grove in Sequoia National Park, California
• Muir Site, an archaeological site in Jessamine County, Kentucky
• Muir Woods National Monument, California

Elsewhere

• Muir Peak, Antarctica
• Lake Muir, Western Australia
• Mount Muir (Alberta), Canada
• Muir, a community in the township of Norwich, Ontario, Canada
• Muir Seamount, an underwater volcano in the Atlantic Ocean north of Bermuda

People

• Muir (surname)
• Muir (given name)
• Clan Muir, a Scottish clan
• John Muir, poet, naturalist, hiker of Yosemite

Other uses

• Muir baronets, a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
• USS Muir (DE-770), a destroyer escort
• Muir House (disambiguation), various buildings on the US National Register of Historic Places
• Muir College, school for boys from Grade 4 to Grade 12 in Uitenhage, South Africa
• John Muir College, a residential college at the University of California, San Diego
• Muir Middle School (disambiguation)
• Muir Homes, a privately owned housebuilding company in Scotland
• Muir Island, fictional island in the Marvel Comics universe

See also

• Muirs Highway, Western Australia