# Homestead

Homestead may refer to:
* Homestead (building), a farmhouse and its adjacent outbuildings; by extension, it can mean any small cluster of houses
* Homestead (unit), a unit of measurement equal to 160 acres
* Homestead principle, a legal concept that one can establish ownership of unowned property through living on it
* Homestead Acts, several United States federal laws that gave millions of acres to farmers known as homesteaders
* Homestead exemption (U.S. law), a legal program to protect the value of a residence from expenses and/or forced sale arising from the death of a spouse
* Homesteading, a lifestyle of agrarian self-sufficiency as practiced by a modern homesteader or urban homesteader

## Named places
### Australia

* Homestead, Queensland, a town and locality in the Charters Towers Region
* The Homestead (Georges Hall, NSW), historical house
* "The Homestead" resort at El Questro Wilderness Park

### United Kingdom

* The Homestead, Sandiway, a house in Cheshire, England, now called Redwalls

### United States

* The Homestead (Flagstaff, Arizona), on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Coconino County, Arizona
* Homestead, Kern County, California
* Homestead, Florida
   * Homestead Air Reserve Base, a U.S. Air Force base near Miami, Florida
   * Homestead-Miami Speedway, an auto racing track in Homestead, Florida
* The Homestead (Evanston, Illinois), on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Evanston, Illinois
* Homestead, Iowa
* Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children, in Florida
* Homestead Township, Otter Tail County, Minnesota
* Homestead, Michigan, an unincorporated community
* Homestead, Missouri
* Homestead, New Mexico
* The Homestead (Haverstraw, New York), listed on the NRHP in Rockland County, New York
* The Homestead (Geneseo, New York), NRHP-listed, a historic house in Livingston County, New York
* The Homestead (Saranac Lake, New York), listed on the NRHP in Franklin County, New York
* The Homestead (Waccabuc, New York), listed on the NRHP in Westchester County, New York
* The Homestead at Denison University, a student-run intentional community in Granville, Ohio
* Homestead, Oklahoma
* Homestead, Oregon
* Homestead, Portland, Oregon
* Homestead, Pennsylvania
* Homestead, Wisconsin
* Homestead Township, Michigan
* The Homestead (Hot Springs, Virginia), a luxury resort and a National Historic Landmark listed on the NRHP in Bath County, Virginia
* Homestead High School (disambiguation), the name of several high schools in the United States
* Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children, a migrant children's detention shelter in Florida

## Arts and media

* "Homestead" (Star Trek: Voyager), a 2001 episode of Star Trek: Voyager
* Homestead, a 1998 novel by American writer Rosina Lippi
* The Homestead, an artwork by John Steuart Curry
* Homestead Records, a record label founded in 1983 and based in New York City
* Homestead Records (1920s), an American record company of the 1920s
* Homestead, fictional planetary migration company, Passengers
* Homestead, an American post-apocalyptic drama film

## Other uses

* Homestead (meteorite), a meteorite that fell in Homestead, Iowa in 1875
* Homestead Strike, an 1892 labor confrontation at the Carnegie Steel Company in Homestead, Pennsylvania
* Homestead Technologies, a web-hosting service based in Burlington, Massachusetts