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n. (plural of down English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: down)

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Downs, IL -- U.S. village in Illinois
Population (2000): 776
Housing Units (2000): 301
Land area (2000): 2.705538 sq. miles (7.007311 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.705538 sq. miles (7.007311 sq. km)
FIPS code: 20643
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 40.397171 N, 88.879818 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Downs, KS -- U.S. city in Kansas
Population (2000): 1038
Housing Units (2000): 543
Land area (2000): 1.102563 sq. miles (2.855626 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.102563 sq. miles (2.855626 sq. km)
FIPS code: 18500
Located within: Kansas (KS), FIPS 20
Location: 39.503305 N, 98.543500 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 67437
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Downs

Downland, Downs, or The Downs may refer to:

Downs (surname)

Downs is a surname of Old English origin.

People with this surname include:

  • Anthony Downs (born 1930), scholar in public policy and public administration
  • Bertis Downs, IV (born 1956), counselor and manager for the rock band R
  • Bill Downs (1914–1978), American war correspondent
  • Charles E. Downs, first Los Angeles City Councilman
  • C. H. "Sammy" Downs (1911-1985), Louisiana politician
  • Deidre Downs (born 1980), winner of Miss America 2005
  • Donald Downs, American political science professor
  • Ephraim Downs (1787–1860), America wooden movement clockmaker
  • George Edward Downs (1856–1936), cricket Test match umpire
  • George W. Downs
  • Hollis Downs (born 1946), American politician
  • Hugh Downs (born 1921), American broadcaster
  • Jack Downs, English rugby league footballer
  • James Crawford Downs (born 1940), American former district attorney
  • James U. Downs (born 1941), American jurist
  • Jason Downs (born 1973), American singer
  • J. Earl Downs (1905-1998), Louisiana politician
  • Johnny Downs (1913–1994), American actor
  • Lila Downs (born 1968), Mexican/American singer
  • Matt Downs (born 1984), Major League Baseball baseman
  • Nicholas Downs (born 1976), American actor
  • Sally Ward Lawrence Hunt Armstrong Downs, also known as Sallie Ward, (1827-1896), American socialite.
  • Scott Downs (born 1976), American baseball pitcher
  • Solomon W. Downs (1801–1854), United States Senator
  • Thomas Nelson Downs (1867–1938), magician
  • U. T. Downs (1880-1941), Louisiana politician
  • Wilbur Downs (1913–1991), naturalist and virologist
Downs (townland, County Westmeath)

Downs is a townland in County Westmeath, Ireland. It is located about north–east of Mullingar.

Downs is one of 11 townlands of the civil parish of Taghmon in the barony of Corkaree in the Province of Leinster. The townland covers . The modern–day rural community of The Downs is south of this townland and is not to be confused with it.

The neighbouring townlands are: Rathcorbally to the north, Balreagh to the east and south, Clonkill to the south and Monkstown to the west.

In the 1911 census of Ireland there were 5 houses and 26 inhabitants in the townland.

Usage examples of "downs".

On the left, the country appeared to be one vast extent of sandy downs, bristling with thistles.

The downs, the extent of which was large, were composed of hillocks and even of hills, very irregularly distributed.

And what could not be explained either was how the engineer had managed to get to this cave in the downs, more than a mile from the shore.

The observers were then about six miles from the Chimneys, not far from that part of the downs in which the engineer had been found after his enigmatical preservation.

There, the long series of downs ended, and the soil had a volcanic appearance.

The third shot, aimed this time at the downs forming the upper side of Union Bay, struck the sand at a distance of four miles, then having ricocheted: was lost in the sea in a cloud of spray.

They had explored, though only in an imperfect manner, the vast shore of Washington Bay from Claw Cape to Reptile End, the woody and marshy border of the west coast, and the interminable downs, ending at the open mouth of Shark Gulf.

Between them and the mountain, the ground is considerably depressed, and if the lava should ever take a course towards the lake, it would be cast on the downs and the neighboring parts of Shark Gulf.

He saw a stretch of empty downs with the wind swaying the remote green-pointed furze bushes.

All his kingdom would he give for the sound of Cornish church bells over the downs, and all the thousand minarets of Celephais for the steep homely roofs of the village near his home.

Drug addicts tend to fall into different classes: those who like downs and Mr.

Londoners long enough to be recorded in some very old church records as Merton Downs, Freemason.

Holborn, and gaze across one mile of downs and swales to an irregular patch of turf called Clerkenwell Green: a bit of common ground separating St.