Atherton may refer to:

Places

Australia

* Atherton, Queensland, a town on the Atherton Tablelands of Far North Queensland *

Atherton Tableland The Atherton Tableland is a fertile plateau which is part of the Great Dividing Range in Queensland, Australia. The principal river flowing across the plateau is the Barron River. It was dammed to form an irrigation reservoir named Lake Tina ...

, a fertile plateau in Queensland * Shire of Atherton, a former local government area of Queensland on the Atherton Tableland **

Atherton Courthouse Atherton Courthouse is located at 81 Main Street, Atherton in Queensland, Australia. The courthouse was built in 1941 and features timber panels constructed from rare quilted, Queensland rainforest maple, which is no longer milled in Austral ...

** Atherton Performing Arts Theatre, former military depot and now theatre **

Atherton War Cemetery Atherton War Cemetery is a heritage-listed cemetery at the corner of Kennedy Highway and Rockley Road, Atherton, Tablelands Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built in 1942. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 19 November 20 ...

, built in 1942 **

Atherton War Memorial Atherton War Memorial is a heritage-listed memorial at Kennedy Highway, Atherton, Tablelands Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built in 1924. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992. History The Atherton War ...

, 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 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 ...

, 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 Atherton () is an List of municipalities in California, incorporated town in San Mateo County, California, San Mateo County, California, United States. Its population was 7,188 as of 2020. Atherton is known for its wealth; in 1990 and 2019, Athe ...

, 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 The Atherton House, also known as the Faxon Atherton Mansion, is a historic building in San Francisco, California, United States. The style of the house, a blend of Queen Anne and Stick-Eastlake, has been described as both "eclectic" and "bizarr ...

, 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 The Hawaii Pacific Sharks are the 13 varsity athletic teams that represent Hawaii Pacific University, located in Honolulu, Hawaii, in NCAA Division II intercollegiate sports. The Sharks compete as members of the Pacific West Conference. Hawaii P ...

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 Atherton Mill was a heritage streetcar station in Charlotte, North Carolina. The former at-grade side platform was located in front of the Trolley Barn at Atherton Mill and it had served as the southern terminus of the Charlotte Trolley, which con ...

, 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) The following is a list of the residence halls within the Pennsylvania State University system. University Park In addition to the following residence halls, the University Park campus provides housing in Eastview Terrace, White Course Apartm ...

, a Pennsylvania State University dormitory

Vermont

Atherton Farmstead The Atherton Farmstead is a historic farm property at 31 Greenbush Road in Cavendish, Vermont. The farmhouse, built in 1785, is one of the oldest in the rural community, and is its oldest known surviving tavern house. It was listed on the National ...

, a historic farm property in Cavendish, Vermont

Elsewhere

Atherton Islands The South Shetland Islands are a group of Antarctic islands with a total area of . They lie about north of the Antarctic Peninsula, and between southwest of the nearest point of the South Orkney Islands. By the Antarctic Treaty of 1959 ...

, off Antarctica *

Atherton Peak Atherton Peak () is a pyramidal peak, peak rising to about east of Fortuna Bay, South Georgia Island, South Georgia. It was charted by Discovery Investigations, 1929–30, and named after Noel Atherton, cartographer in the British Admiralty, ...

, South Georgia

People

Atherton (surname) Atherton is a toponymic surname. One origin is the town of Atherton, Greater Manchester, Atherton, historically in Lancashire, England. Notable individuals A * Adelbert S. Atherton, former American politician * Alfred Atherton, former Am ...

, 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 Atherton Darling Converse (January 7, 1877 – July 6, 1956) was an American was a Harvard educated businessman, a toy manufacturer and politician from Winchendon, Massachusetts, who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives after bei ...

, American politician *

Atherton Curtis Atherton M. Curtis (April 3, 1863 - October 8, 1943) was an American Private collection, art collector and a writer from Brooklyn, New York City, who settled permanently in Paris in 1903. He was also an author of introduction, art historian and p ...

(1863–1843), American art collector and art historian who lived in France *

Atherton Martín Atherton Martin is a Dominican agronomist and environmentalist. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1998, for his efforts on protecting tropical forests from environments threats due to planned large copper mining operations. Refere ...

, Dominican agronomist and environmentalist *

Atherton Rawstorne Atherton Gwillym Rawstorne (9 July 18555 May 1936) was the Bishop of Whalley (a suffragan bishop in the Anglican Diocese of Manchester, Diocese of Manchester until 1927, in the Diocese of Blackburn from 1927) from 1909 to 1936; and Archdeacon of B ...

(1855–1936), British Bishop of Whalley * Atherton Seidell (1878–1961), American chemist and library scientist *

Atherton Thayer Atherton Thayer was a Massachusetts farmer, military officer, town official, who served as the second sheriff of Norfolk County, Massachusetts from 1794 to 1798. Overview He was appointed to fill the vacancy upon resignation of his half-brother ...

, sheriff of Norfolk County, Massachusetts from 1794 to 1798

Science

Atherton–Todd reaction The Atherton-Todd reaction is a name reaction in organic chemistry, which goes back to the British chemists F. R. Atherton, H. T. Openshaw and A. R. Todd. These described the reaction for the first time in 1945 as a method of converting Dialkyl pho ...

, in organic chemistry * Jiles–Atherton model, magnetic hysteresis model

Organisms

Atherton antechinus The Atherton antechinus (''Antechinus godmani''), also known as Godman's antechinus, is a species of small carnivorous marsupial native to Australia. It is one of the rarest members of its genus, and differs from other antechinuses in its more ...

(''Antechinus godmani''), also known as Godman's antechinus, a species of small carnivorous marsupial native to Australia *

Atherton delma The Atherton delma (''Delma mitella'') is a species of lizard in the Pygopodidae family endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defi ...

(''Delma mitella''), a species of lizard in the family Pygopodidae endemic to Australia *

Atherton oak ''Athertonia'' is a monotypic genus of plants in the family Proteaceae. The sole described species is ''Athertonia diversifolia'', commonly known as Atherton oak, athertonia, creamy silky oak or white oak. It is endemic to a small part of the W ...

, the common name of the tall Australian tree ''Athertonia diversifolia'' *''

Athertonia ''Athertonia'' is a monotypic genus of plants in the family Proteaceae. The sole described species is ''Athertonia diversifolia'', commonly known as Atherton oak, athertonia, creamy silky oak or white oak. It is endemic to a small part of the ...

'', the monotypic genus of the Atherton oak, from the family * ''

Rubus probus ''Rubus probus'', commonly known as Atherton raspberry or wild raspberry, is a scrambling shrub in the family Rosaceae native to Malesia and Queensland. Atherton raspberry is a rampant grower and, like most ''Rubus'' species, can form dense th ...

'' or Atherton raspberry, a wild tropical raspberry species native to Papua New Guinea and parts of Australia *

Atherton sauropus ''Sauropus macranthus'', commonly known as pumpkin fruit, pumpkin bush or Atherton sauropus, is a rainforest tree from Asia, Malesia and north-east Queensland. It is listed as "vulnerable" under the Commonwealth Environment Protection and ...

(''Sauropus macranthus''), a rainforest tree from Asia, Melanesia and north-east Queensland * Atherton scrubwren (''Sericornis keri''), an Australian bird species

Sports

Atherton F.C. Atherton F.C. was an English Association football, football club located in Atherton, Greater Manchester, Atherton, in Lancashire. The club spent most of its history in the Lancashire Combination. History The club, then known as Atherton Church H ...

, a former English association football team based in Atherton, Greater Manchester *

Atherton Laburnum Rovers F.C. Atherton Laburnum Rovers Football Club is a football club based in Atherton, Greater Manchester, England. Full members of the Lancashire County FA, they are currently members of the and play at Crilly Park. History The club were established ...

, an English association football team based in Atherton, Greater Manchester. *

Atherton Collieries A.F.C. Atherton Collieries Association Football Club is a football club based in Atherton, Greater Manchester, England. The club are currently members of the and play at Alder House. They are full members of the Lancashire County Football Association ...

, an English association football team based in Atherton, Greater Manchester. * Atherton Roosters, a Cairns, Queensland Rugby team

Other uses

* '' Atherton: The House of Power'', a book by Patrick Carman * USS ''Atherton'', a 1943 World War II ''Cannon'' class destroyer escort {{disambiguation, geo, given name