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Huntsville

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Etymology

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From Hunt +‎ -s- +‎ -ville.

Proper noun

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Huntsville

  1. A city, the county seat of Madison County, Alabama, United States.
    • 2020, Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom, Viking (2021), page 103:
      Sidewalks in Huntsville were mostly decorative. People drove their SUVs to grocery stores two blocks away, their air-conditioning on full blast.
  2. A city, the county seat of Madison County, Arkansas, United States.
  3. A community of Canaan, Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States.
  4. An unincorporated community in Schuyler County, Illinois, United States.
  5. An unincorporated community in Madison County, Indiana, United States.
  6. An unincorporated community in Randolph County, Indiana, United States.
  7. An unincorporated community in Reno County, Kansas, United States.
  8. A city, the county seat of Randolph County, Missouri, United States.
  9. An unincorporated community in Yadkin County, North Carolina, United States.
  10. A village in Logan County, Ohio, United States.
  11. A town, the county seat of Scott County, Tennessee, United States.
  12. A city, the county seat of Walker County, Texas, United States.
    • 2007, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men (motion picture), spoken by Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones):
      There was this boy I sent to the gas chamber at Huntsville here a while back. My arrest and my testimony. He killed a fourteen-year-old girl. Papers said it was a crime of passion but he told me there wasn't any passion to it. Told me that he'd been planning to kill somebody for about as long as he could remember. Said that if they turned him out he'd do it again.
  13. A town in Weber County, Utah, United States.
  14. An unincorporated community in Columbia County, Washington, United States.
  15. A former community in Jackson County, West Virginia, United States.
  16. A town in Muskoka, Ontario, Canada.