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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
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
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