Sumner may refer to:

Places

Antarctica

  • Mount Sumner, a mountain in the Rare Range, Antarctica
  • Sumner Glacier, southern Graham Land, Antarctica

Australia

  • Sumner, Queensland, a suburb of Brisbane

New Zealand

  • Sumner, New Zealand, 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, an unincorporated community
  • Sumner, Georgia, a town
  • Sumner, Illinois, a city
  • Sumner, Iowa, a city
  • Sumner, Maine, a town
  • Sumner, Michigan, an unincorporated community in Sumner Township
  • Sumner, Mississippi, a town
  • Sumner, Missouri, a city
  • Sumner, Nebraska, a village
  • Sumner, Oklahoma, an unincorporated community and census-designated place
  • Sumner, Oregon, an unincorporated community
  • Sumner, Portland, Oregon, a neighborhood
  • Sumner, Texas, an unincorporated community
  • Sumner, Washington, a city
  • Sumner, Barron County, Wisconsin, a town
  • Sumner (community), Barron County, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
  • Sumner, Jefferson County, Wisconsin, a town
  • Sumner, Trempealeau County, Wisconsin, a town
  • Sumner County, Kansas
  • Sumner County, Tennessee
  • Sumner Township (disambiguation)
  • Fort Sumner, a former military fort in New Mexico in the 1860s
  • Fort Sumner (Maine), a coastal defense fortification built in Portland, Maine, in 1794
  • Fort Sumner (Maryland), a Civil War fort in Bethesda, Maryland
  • Sumner Strait, Alaska

Outer space

  • Sumner (crater), a crater on the Moon

People

  • Sumner (given name)
  • Sumner (surname)
  • Sumner family, 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, originally Sumner School, a former one-room schoolhouse near Mount Vernon, Iowa
  • Sumner Elementary School, 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
  • SS William G. Sumner, a cargo ship acquired by the United States Navy in World War II and renamed USS Alkaid

Transportation

  • Sumner Bridge, Sumner, Iowa
  • Sumner Tunnel, 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, 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)