# Branch (disambiguation)

A branch is a part of a woody plant.
Branch or branches may also refer to:

## Places
### Australia

* The Branch River, New South Wales

### Canada

* Branch, Newfoundland and Labrador, a town

### France

* Branches, Yonne, a commune

### New Zealand

* Branch River (Taylor River tributary)
* Branch River (Wairau River tributary)

### United States

* Branch, Arkansas, a city
* Branch, Louisiana, an unincorporated community and census-designated place
* Branch, Michigan, an unincorporated community
* Branch, Missouri, an unincorporated community
* Branch, Texas, an unincorporated community
* Branch, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
* Branch, Branch County, Michigan, a former village and first seat of the county
* Branch County, Michigan
* Branch Township (disambiguation)
* Fort Branch, North Carolina, a Confederate fort in the American Civil War
* Branch River (New Hampshire)
* The Branch, also known as Branch River, New Hampshire
* Branch River (Rhode Island)
* Branch River (Wisconsin)

## People

* Branch (surname), a list of people with the name
* Branch (given name), a list of people with the name
* Branch McCracken (1908–1970), American college basketball player and coach nicknamed "Branch"

## Arts and entertainment

* Branch Connally, a main character in the Longmire television series
* Branch, a troll in the 2016 film Trolls
* Arthur Branch, a fictional district attorney in the Law & Order franchise
* Branches (novel), a 2000 novel-in-verse by American author Mitch Cullin
* The Branches, a 2010 EP by The Dear Hunter

## Companies and organizations

* Branch office, business organization that, unlike a subsidiary, does not constitute a separate legal entity even if physically separated from the organization's main office
* Branch (banking), a retail location
* Branch, a local union, in the trade union movement
* Military branch, a component of the armed forces, such as the army, navy, or air force

## Mathematics

* Branches of mathematics, subdisciplines within mathematics
* Branch (algebraic geometry), a smooth arc of a real algebraic curve
* Branch (graph theory), a path of degree-two vertices ending in vertices of degree unequal to two
** Branch-decomposition, a hierarchical clustering of the edges of a graph, and branchwidth, a graph parameter defined from these decompositions
* Branch (mathematical analysis), a single value of a multi-valued complex function
** Branch point, of a multi-valued function, a point where all neighborhoods are multi-valued
** Branched covering, a generalization of multi-valued functions in topology and algebraic geometry
* Branch (set theory), a maximal totally ordered subset of a tree-ordered set

## Religion

* Branch (LDS Church), the smaller of two types of local congregation in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
* Branch, in Jesus and messianic prophecy, a prophetic name attributed by Christians to Jesus

## Other uses

* Branch (academia), an academic sub-discipline
* Branch (bridle), a crooked piece of iron in a bit shank
* Branch (computer science), a point in a computer program where program-flow may change depending on a condition
* Branch (hieroglyph), a member of the trees and plants hieroglyphs
* Branches, the major sub-families of a language family
* USS Branch, various US Navy ships
* Branch, a sometimes-used taxonomic rank