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United States

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Atwood, Placentia, California Atwood is a small predominantly Mexican-American neighborhood in Placentia, California. Atwood's unofficial boundaries are defined roughly as the area of Placentia in the square formed by Orangethorpe Avenue, Van Buren Street, Lakeview Road, and Mi ...
* Atwood, Colorado *
Atwood, Illinois Atwood is a village in Douglas and Piatt counties in Illinois, United States. Main Street runs along the county line with Douglas County to the east and Piatt County to the west. The population was 1,116 at the 2020 census. Geography According ...
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Atwood, Indiana Atwood is an unincorporated community in Prairie Township, Kosciusko County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. History Originally named "Mount Ruska," Atwood was laid out as a village on September 29, 1857. It was an important trading point due to t ...
* Atwood, Iowa *
Atwood, Kansas Atwood is a city in and the county seat of Rawlins County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 1,290. History In 1875, T.A. Andrews and J.M. Matheny traveled to Rawlins County and started a town site ...
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Atwood, Kentucky Atwood is an unincorporated community in Kenton County, Kentucky, Kenton County, Kentucky, United States. The community is located on Kentucky Route 17 south of Nicholson, Kentucky, Nicholson. The community has the name of Atwood C. Bird (1867- ...
* Atwood, Michigan *
Atwood, Nevada Atwood is a former mining settlement located northeast of Mina in Nye County, Nevada. Founded in 1901, it was the most important mining village in the Fairplay Mining District, that was called "Atwood Mining District" as well. After Atwood was ...
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Atwood, Oklahoma Atwood is a town in Hughes County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 74 at the 2010 census. History The town is named for Chester C. Atwood, an early settler of what would later become Hughes County, Oklahoma. Atwood was an educated f ...
* Atwood, Pennsylvania * Atwood, Tennessee * Atwood, Wisconsin


Elsewhere

* Atwood (crater), a crater on the moon named after George Atwood *
Atwood, Ontario Atwood is a small town located in Perth County, Ontario, Canada. Nearby centres include Listowel and Elmira. Atwood is located on Highway 23 between Perth Line 75 (formerly 8th Concession) and Perth Line 72 Perth is the capital and lar ...
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Other uses

* Atwood (surname) * Ryan Atwood, a character on the television series ''The O.C.'' * Atwood Oceanics, a defunct offshore oil and gas drilling company, now part of
Valaris plc Valaris plc is an offshore drilling contractor headquartered in Houston, Texas, and incorporated in the UK. It is the largest offshore drilling and well drilling company in the world, and owns 56 rigs, including 40 offshore jackup rigs, 11 drill ...
* Atwood Stadium, an athletic facility in Flint, Michigan


See also

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Atwood machine The Atwood machine (or Atwood's machine) was invented in 1784 by the English mathematician George Atwood as a laboratory experiment to verify the mechanical laws of motion with constant acceleration. Atwood's machine is a common classroom demons ...
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Swinging Atwood's machine The swinging Atwood's machine (SAM) is a mechanism that resembles a simple Atwood's machine except that one of the masses is allowed to swing in a two-dimensional plane, producing a dynamical system that is chaotic for some system parameters an ...
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