Backus is a surname.
Backus may also refer to:
Places in the United States
edit- Backusburg, Kentucky, an unincorporated community
- Backusburg Mounds, an archeological site in Calloway County, Kentucky
- Backus Beach, Michigan, an unincorporated community
- Backus Township, Michigan
- Backus, Minnesota, a city
- Backus, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
- Blennerhassett Island, West Virginia, originally known as Backus Island
Other uses
edit- William W. Backus Hospital, a community hospital in Norwich, Connecticut
- Backus Water Motor Company of Newark, New Jersey, which produced an early split cycle engine
- Backus and Johnston, a Peruvian brewery
See also
edit- Bacchus (disambiguation)
- Bachus (disambiguation)
- Backus upscaling, calculating the effective elastic properties of geological layers in petrology