Kirkwood may refer to:

Locations

Antarctica

Kirkwood Islands The Kirkwood Islands are a scattered group of reefs and rocks, with one larger island, lying in the central part of Marguerite Bay, south-southwest of the Faure Islands, Antarctica. The islands were sighted in 1949 from the Falkland Islands Dep ...

, string of islands near Antarctica *

Kirkwood Range The Kirkwood Range () is a massive coastal mountain range in Antarctica, extending north–south between Fry Glacier and Mawson Glacier. A broad low-level platform on the seaward side of the range is occupied by the Oates Piedmont Glacier. It was n ...

, massive coastal mountain chain in Antarctica *

Mount Kirkwood Mount Kirkwood () is a mountain, 460 m, standing 3 nautical miles (6 km) west of Entrance Point in the south part of Deception Island, in the South Shetland Islands. First charted by a British expedition 1828–31, under Foster. Named in 1950 ...

, mountain in Antarctica

Australia

Kirkwood, Queensland Kirkwood is a semi-rural locality in the Gladstone Region, Queensland, Australia. In the Kirkwood had a population of 2,513 people. Geography The locality is bounded to the north by Kirkwood Road and to the east by Auckland Creek. Situated on ...

, a locality in the Gladstone Region

Canada

Kirkwood, New Brunswick Kirkwood (population: 90)is a Canadian rural community in Northumberland County, New Brunswick. It is situated along the Southwest Miramichi River The Southwest Miramichi River is a river in New Brunswick, Canada. The river has its origin in ...

, Canada

South Africa

Kirkwood, Eastern Cape Kirkwood is a town in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. It is situated on the banks of the Sundays River in the eponymously named Sundays River Valley, which forms part of the Sundays River Valley Municipality in the Sarah Baartman Dis ...

, a town in South Africa

United Kingdom

* Kirkwood, Coatbridge, a neighbourhood in Coatbridge, Scotland *

Kirkwood Estate, East Ayrshire The Lands of Kirkwood (NS3947) formed a small estate in the Parish of Stewarton, East Ayrshire lying between Stewarton and Dunlop, which in 1678 became part of the lands of Lainshaw, known as the Lainshaw, Kirkwood and Bridgehouse Estate. Kirkwo ...

, in Scotland

United States

Kirkwood, California Kirkwood (formerly Kirk, Kirkwood's, and Roundtop) is an unincorporated community in Alpine and Amador counties, California, United States. Kirkwood's main attraction is the Kirkwood Mountain Resort. The town is accessible by State Route 88. Ki ...

, in Alpine and Amador Counties in the state of California * Kirkwood, Glenn County, California, in Glenn County in the state of California *

Kirkwood Mountain Resort Kirkwood Mountain Resort is a year-round resort in Kirkwood, California, south of Lake Tahoe. The resort focuses on skiing and snowboarding in the winter and hiking and mountain-biking in the Summer. Kirkwood is one of the region's larger res ...

, mountain resort in the state of California *

Kirkwood, Delaware Kirkwood (also known as Kemps Corner or Saint Georges Station) is an unincorporated community in central New Castle County, Delaware, United States. It lies along Delaware Route 71, southwest of the city of Wilmington, the county seat of New Cas ...

, in the state of Delaware *

Kirkwood (Atlanta) Kirkwood is a national historic designated neighborhood on the east side of Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It is a historic streetcar suburb situated entirely in DeKalb County, bordered by the neighborhoods of Lake Claire, East Lake, Edgewood, ...

, in the city of Atlanta, in the state of Georgia *

Kirkwood, Illinois Kirkwood is a village in Warren County, Illinois, United States. The population was 714 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Galesburg Micropolitan Statistical Area. History The land was set aside as a Military Tract of 1812. In 1859, the firs ...

, in the state of Illinois * Kirkwood, Kansas *

Kirkwood, Missouri Kirkwood is an inner-ring western suburb of St. Louis located in St. Louis County, Missouri. As of the 2010 census, the city's population was 27,540. Founded in 1853, the city is named after James P. Kirkwood, builder of the Pacific Railroad th ...

, in the state of Missouri *

Kirkwood, New Jersey Kirkwood is an Local government in New Jersey#Unincorporated communities, unincorporated community located within Voorhees Township, New Jersey, Voorhees Township in Camden County, New Jersey, Camden County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

, in the state of New Jersey *

Kirkwood, New York Kirkwood is a town in Broome County, New York, United States. The population was 5,495 at the 2020 census. The town is named after James P. Kirkwood, who was an engineer responsible for constructing the local railroad. The town is in the south-ce ...

, in the state of New York *

Kirkwood, Ohio Kirkwood is a rural unincorporated community located at the intersection of Kirkwood and River Roads in southwestern Orange Township, Shelby County, Ohio, United States. Originally named Pontiac before the name change, Kirkwood is located hal ...

, in the state of Ohio *

Kirkwood Township, Belmont County, Ohio Kirkwood Township is one of the sixteen townships of Belmont County, Ohio, United States. The 2010 census found 400 people in the township. Geography Located in the western part of the county, it borders the following townships: * Flushing Towns ...

, one of 16 townships of Belmont County in the state of Ohio *

Kirkwood, Pennsylvania Kirkwood is an unincorporated farming town and census-designated place (CDP) in Colerain Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of the Lancaster Metro area, in Pennsylvania Dutch Country. The ZIP code is 17536. As of ...

, in the state of Pennsylvania *

Kirkwood, West Virginia Kirkwood is an unincorporated community in Nicholas County, in the U.S. state of West Virginia West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian, Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States.The Census Bureau and the Association ...

, an unincorporated community

Structures

Kirkwood (Eutaw, Alabama) Kirkwood is a historic plantation house in Eutaw, Alabama. The house was recorded by the Historic American Buildings Survey in 1934 and by Carol M. Highsmith in 2010. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 17, 1976, ...

, historic house in Eutaw, in the US state of Alabama *

Kirkwood Building The Kirkwood Building in Kansas City, Missouri is a building from 1920. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of d ...

, historic building (1920) in Kansas City, in the US state of Missouri *

Kirkwood Community College Kirkwood Community College is a public community college in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Kirkwood has a secondary campus in Iowa City, and several additional regional and county centers located in Belle Plaine, Coralville, Hiawatha, Monticello, Tipton ...

, post-secondary public educational institution in Cedar Rapids, in the US state of Iowa *

Kirkwood High School Kirkwood High School is a public education, public secondary school in Kirkwood, Missouri, United States. The school is part of the Kirkwood R-7 School District. Dr. Mike Havener started as principal in July 2011. History Kirkwood High School ...

, secondary public school in Kirkwood, Missouri *

Kirkwood Hospice Kirkwood Hospice is a hospice situated in Dalton, Huddersfield, in West Yorkshire, England. It provides Specialist palliative care for the terminally ill in Kirklees. It was built on the site of the former Mill Hill Isolation Hospital, which cl ...

, palliative-care facility in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire *

Kirkwood Observatory Kirkwood Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by Indiana University. It is located in Bloomington, Indiana, United States. It is named for Daniel Kirkwood (1814–1895) an astronomer and professor of mathematics at India ...

, astronomical observatory near Bloomington, in the US state of Indiana *

Kirkwood station (disambiguation) Kirkwood station may refer to: * Kirkwood station (Missouri), an Amtrak station in Kirkwood, Missouri, U.S.A. * Kirkwood railway station, a train station in Coatbridge, Scotland * Kirkwood/La Salle Station, a Muni Metro station in San Francisco, Ca ...

, stations of the name *

Hotel Kirkwood The Hotel Kirkwood, also known as the Kirkwood Civic Center Hotel, is a historic building located in downtown Des Moines, Iowa, United States. The building was designed by the Chicago architectural firm of H.L. Stevens & Company and built in 1930 ...

, historic structure in Des Moines, in the US state of Iowa *

Joseph Kirkwood House The Joseph Kirkwood House is a historic house in the village of Bridgeport, Ohio, United States. Originally home to one of the area's oldest families, it was built in the middle of the nineteenth century in a mix of architectural styles. Named ...

, historic dwelling in Bridgeport, in the US state of Ohio

Other uses

* Kirkwood (surname), a surname *

Kirkwood Otey Kirkwood Otey (October 18, 1832 – June 1, 1897) served as the commanding officer of the 11th Virginia Infantry in the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War. Civil War service Otey commanded the regiment first as ...

(1832-1897), soldier in the Confederate Army during the US Civil Way * Baron Kirkwood, a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom *

Kirkwood approximation The Kirkwood superposition approximation was introduced in 1935 by John G. Kirkwood as a means of representing a discrete probability distribution. The Kirkwood approximation for a discrete probability density function P(x_,x_,\ldots ,x_) is given ...

, a mathematical superposition approximation introduced by Matsuda in 2000 *

Kirkwood City Council shooting On February 7, 2008, a gunman went on a shooting rampage at a public meeting in the city hall, leaving six people dead and a seventh injured in Kirkwood, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. Charles Lee "Cookie" Thornton, aged 52, shot one police ...

, a 2008 tragedy in Kirkwood, Missouri * Kirkwood-Cohansey aquifer, an aquifer in the US state of New Jersey *

Kirkwood (crater) Kirkwood is a well-formed lunar impact crater that is located on the far side of the Moon, on the northern hemisphere, approximately 68 kilometers in diameter. It lies just to the northeast of the crater Sommerfeld, and Hippocrates is located to ...

, a crater on the far side of Earth's Moon *

Kirkwood Formation The Kirkwood Formation is a geological formation found in the Eastern and Western Cape provinces in South Africa. It is one of the four formations found within the Uitenhage Group of the Algoa Basin – its type locality – and in the neighbouri ...

, a geologic feature in South Africa *

Kirkwood gap A Kirkwood gap is a gap or dip in the distribution of the semi-major axes (or equivalently of the orbital periods) of the orbits of main-belt asteroids. They correspond to the locations of orbital resonances with Jupiter. For example, there ar ...

, an observed gap in the main asteroid belt *

Kirkwood Mall Kirkwood Mall (originally known as Kirkwood Plaza) is an enclosed regional shopping mall in the city of Bismarck, North Dakota. At 850,000 square feet, Kirkwood Mall is the second largest mall in North Dakota, boasting over 90 shops. Opened in 1970 ...

, an enclosed shopping center in Bismarck, in the US state of North Dakota * Kirkwood Highway, part of

Delaware Route 2 Delaware Route 2 (DE 2) is a east–west state highway located in the northern part of New Castle County in the U.S. state of Delaware. It runs from DE 72 and DE 273 on the eastern edge of Newark east to DE 52 i ...

in the US state of Delaware * Kirkwood, a System on a chip by

Marvell Technology Group Marvell Technology, Inc. is an American company, headquartered in Santa Clara, California, which develops and produces semiconductors and related technology. Founded in 1995, the company had more than 6,000 employees as of 2021, with over 10,00 ...

used in plug computers *

1578 Kirkwood 1578 Kirkwood, provisional designation , is a Hilda asteroid from the outermost regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 52 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 10 January 1951, by astronomers of the Indiana Asteroid Program at Goethe ...

, an asteroid that was discovered in 1951 {{disambiguation, geo