Atherton

Atherton may refer to:

Places

Australia

• Atherton, Queensland, a town on the Atherton Tablelands of Far North Queensland, Australia
• Atherton Tableland, a fertile plateau in Queensland
• Shire of Atherton, a former local government area of Queensland on the Atherton Tableland
  • Atherton Courthouse
  • Atherton War Cemetery
  • Hou Wang Temple, also known as the Atherton Chinese Temple

Canada

• Atherton, Ontario, a hamlet in Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada

United Kingdom

• Atherton, Greater Manchester, a town in North West England
• Atherton (ward), an electoral ward in Wigan, England
• Atherton Hall, Leigh, a country house and estate in Atherton, historically part of Lancashire, England
• Atherton Urban District. From 1863 until 1974, Atherton was a local government district in Lancashire, England
• Atherton Line. The section of the Manchester-Southport Line, between Wigan and Salford is also known locally as the Atherton Line.
• Atherton railway station
• Atherton Bag Lane railway station

United States of America

California

• Atherton, California, a town in San Mateo County in the San Francisco Bay Area
  • Atherton station, a station on the Caltrain railway line in this town
  • Atherton House, also known as the Faxon Atherton Mansion, a historic building in San Francisco, California

Indiana

• Atherton, Indiana, an unincorporated community in Vigo County

Kentucky

• Athertonville, Kentucky, former home of Atherton pre-prohibition whiskey.
• Atherton High School is a public school in the Highlands district of Louisville, Kentucky and is part of the Jefferson County Public School district. It opened in 1924 as J.M. Atherton High School for Girls at 1418 Morton Avenue.

Massachusetts

• Atherton Bridge is a historic iron truss bridge in Lancaster, Massachusetts, spanning the South Branch of the Nashua River.

Missouri

• Atherton, Missouri, an unincorporated community in Jackson County

Michigan

• Atherton Community Schools, a school district in the city of Burton, Michigan
• Atherton Settlement, within the city of Burton, Michigan

North Carolina

• Atherton Mill station was a station on the Charlotte Trolley line in the South End of Charlotte, NC

Pennsylvania

• Atherton Hall (Penn State), a Pennsylvania State University dormitory

Vermont

• Atherton Farmstead, a historic farm property in Cavendish, Vermont, with 124 years of Atherton ownership. On the National Register of Historical Places since 2001.

Science

• Atherton antechinus (Antechinus godmani), also known as Godman's antechinus, is a species of small carnivorous marsupial native to Australia.
• Atherton delma (Delma mitella) is a species of lizard in the Pygopodidae family endemic to Australia.
• Atherton oak, the common name of Athertonia diversifolia
• Rubus probus or Atherton raspberry is a wild tropical raspberry species native to Papua New Guinea and parts of Australia.
• Atherton sauropus, is a rainforest tree from Asia, Melanesia and north-east Queensland.
• Atherton scrubwren, an Australian bird species
• Atherton–Todd reaction
• Athertonia, a genus of tall trees, constituting part of the plant family Proteaceae
• Jiles–Atherton model

Sports

• Atherton F.C., a former English association football team based in Atherton, Greater Manchester
• Atherton Laburnum Rovers F.C., an English association football team based in Atherton, Greater Manchester
• Atherton Collieries A.F.C., an English association football team based in Atherton, Greater Manchester

Other uses

• Atherton (surname)
• Atherton: The House of Power, a book by Patrick Carman
• USS Atherton, a World War II Cannon class destroyer escort