What is "hays"

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

Hays may refer to:

Hays is a neighborhood in the 31st Ward of the east side of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is represented on the Pittsburgh City Council by the representative of District 5 (Corey O'Connor). It occupies ZIP codes 15227, 15207, and 15236. It is named after James H. Hays, who opened a coal-mining operation called Hays and Haberman Mines in 1828.

Hays was first settled in 1789 when still part of Baldwin Township by John Smalls, who named the area Six Mile Ferry Village. The H.B. Hays and Brothers Coal Railroad was a narrow gauge railroad that ran from the coal mine along Streets Run to the coal tipple at Six Mile Ferry.

The neighborhood was formerly the site of the Hays Army Ammunition Plant, built by the U.S. Navy in 1942. The plant was transferred to the Army in 1966, and during its heyday between World War II and the Vietnam War employed more than a thousand people. In 1970 the plant was put on standby status until disposition in 1988. In 1993 the site was donated to the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh. The closing of the plant has led to an enormous loss of population: in 1940 the population was 2,238, while in 2010 the population was only 362.

Hays encompasses the area known as Hays Woods, a + woodland, the largest undeveloped tract of land in the city of Pittsburgh (even larger than Frick Park). Hays Woods is the best example of the city's natural environment and has six streams, including a waterfall. The area is home to nesting bald eagles. The parcel of land including Hays Woods was a identified as a possible site for a thoroughbred racetrack and housing development after developer Charles Betters' application to strip mine the area was declined. In 2016, the parcel was signed over to the city of Pittsburgh and is slated to become the largest park in Pittsburgh.

Hays is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Alexander Hays (1819–1864), general in the Federal army during the American Civil War
• Anna Mae Hays (born 1920), first woman in the U.S. Army to be promoted to general
• Arthur Garfield Hays (1881–1954), attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union
• Brooks Hays (1898–1981), former United States Congressman from Arkansas
• Charles Melville Hays (1856–1912), American railroad executive who perished on the Titanic
• Dan Hays (born 1939), Canadian politician
• David Hays (born 1944), English-born Scottish cricketer
• Ethel Hays (1892–1989), American syndicated cartoonist
• George Price Hays (1892–1978), Lt. General, Commander of the 10th Mountain Division in the European Theater of Operations in World War II.
• George Washington Hays (1863–1927), former governor of the state of Arkansas
• Harry Hays (1909–1982), Canadian Senator
• Harry T. Hays (1820–1876), general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War
• John Coffee Hays (1817–1883), Texas Ranger and sheriff in the Old West
• Kathleen Hays, American economics reporter
• Kathryn Hays (born 1933), American actress
• Kevin Hays (born 1968), jazz pianist
• Lauren Hays, American actress
• Larry Hays, American college baseball coach
• Paul Hays, Reading Clerk for the U.S. House of Representatives
• Richard B. Hays, American college professor at Duke University
• Robert Hays (born 1947), American actor
• Samuel Hays (1783–1868), Pennsylvanian Democratic politician
• Samuel Lewis Hays (1794–1871), Virginian politician
• Todd Hays (born 1969), American Olympic bobsledder
• Wayne Hays (1911–1989), former United States Congressman from Ohio
• William B. Hays (1844–1912), Mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• Will H. Hays (1879–1954), American politician and Postmaster General
• William Shakespeare Hays (1837–1907), American poet and lyricist