Atherton Explained

Atherton may refer to:

Places

Australia

• Atherton, Queensland, a town on the Atherton Tablelands of Far North Queensland
• 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
  • Atherton War Memorial, memorial at Kennedy Highway

Canada

• Atherton, Ontario, a hamlet in Norfolk County, Ontario
• Mount Atherton, a mountain in Yukon

Malaysia

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

United Kingdom

• Atherton, Greater Manchester, town in Wigan district, historically in Lancashire, England
  • Atherton (ward), electoral ward
  • Atherton Hall, Leigh, country house and estate
  • Atherton Urban District, local government district from 1863 until 1974
  • Atherton High School, Greater Manchester, mixed secondary free school
• Atherton Line, section of the Manchester-Southport Line, between Wigan and Salford
  • Atherton railway station
  • Atherton Bag Lane railway station, a former station

United States

California

• Atherton, California, a town in San Mateo County in the San Francisco Bay Area
  • Atherton station, a former 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, Louisville, 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, within Oklahoma State University campus

Pennsylvania

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

Vermont

• Atherton Farmstead, a historic farm property in Cavendish, Vermont

Elsewhere

• Atherton Islands, off Antarctica
• Atherton Peak, South Georgia

People

• Atherton (surname), includes a list of notable people with the surname
• Atherton Blight (1834–1909), American lawyer, diarist, and philanthropist who traveled extensively in the middle of the 19th century to Europe and the Middle East
• Atherton D. Converse, American politician
• Atherton Curtis (1863–1843), American art collector and art historian who lived in France
• Atherton Martín, Dominican agronomist and environmentalist
• Atherton Rawstorne (1855–1936), British Bishop of Whalley
• Atherton Seidell (1878–1961), American chemist and library scientist
• Atherton Thayer, sheriff of Norfolk County, Massachusetts from 1794 to 1798

Science

• Atherton–Todd 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
• Athertonia, the monotypic genus of the Atherton oak, from the family
• Rubus probus or Atherton raspberry, 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

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

Other uses

• , a book by Patrick Carman
• USS Atherton, a 1943 World War II Cannon class destroyer escort