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 Performing Arts Theatre, former military depot and now theatre
  • Atherton War Cemetery, built in 1942
  • Hou Wang Temple, also known as the Atherton Chinese Temple
  • Atherton War Memorial, memorial at Kennedy Highway

Canada

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

Malaysia

• Ladang Atherton, is part of the electoral district N.31 Bagan Pinang, Port Dickson

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, Atherton was a local government district in Lancashire, England from 1863 until 1974
• Atherton Line, section of the Manchester-Southport Line, between Wigan and Salford
• Atherton railway station
• Atherton Bag Lane railway station
• Atherton Community School, a mixed secondary free school

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
  • Menlo-Atherton High School, a four-year public comprehensive secondary school

Indiana

• Atherton, Indiana, an unincorporated community in Vigo County
• West Atherton, Indiana
• Atherton Building, Butler University

Hawaii

• Atherton field, home of the Hawaii Pacific Sharks

Kentucky

• Athertonville, Kentucky, former home of Atherton pre-prohibition whiskey
• Atherton High School, public school in Louisville, Kentucky

Massachusetts

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

Oklahoma

• The Atherton Hotel, located within Oklahoma State University Campus

Pennsylvania

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

Texas

• Charles H. Atherton Elementary, Fifth Ward, Houston

Vermont

• Atherton Farmstead, a historic farm property in Cavendish, Vermont, with 124 years of Atherton ownership

Other places

• Atherton Islands
• Atherton Peak

Science

• Atherton–Todd reaction, a name reaction in organic chemistry
• Jiles–Atherton model, magnetic hysteresis model

Organisms

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

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.
• Atherton Roosters, a Cairns, Queensland Rugby team

People

• Atherton (surname)

Other uses

• Atherton: The House of Power, a book by Patrick Carman
• USS Atherton, a 1943 World War II Cannon class destroyer escort