Lexington may refer to:
Places
England
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Laxton, Nottinghamshire
Laxton is a small village in the civil parish of Laxton and Moorhouse in the English county of Nottinghamshire, situated about 25 miles northeast of Nottingham city centre. The population of the civil parish (including Ompton and Ossington) at t ...
, formerly Lexington
Canada
* Lexington, a district in
Waterloo, Ontario
Waterloo is a city in the Canadian province of Ontario. It is one of three cities in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo (formerly Waterloo County, Ontario, Waterloo County). Waterloo is situated about west-southwest of Toronto. Due to the c ...
United States
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Lexington, Kentucky
Lexington is a city in Kentucky, United States that is the county seat of Fayette County, Kentucky, Fayette County. By population, it is the List of cities in Kentucky, second-largest city in Kentucky and List of United States cities by popul ...
, the largest city with this name
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Lexington, Massachusetts
Lexington is a suburban town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. It is 10 miles (16 km) from Downtown Boston. The population was 34,454 as of the 2020 census. The area was originally inhabited by Native Americans, and was firs ...
, the oldest municipality with this name in the United States
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Lexington, Alabama
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Lexington, California
Lexington, California, is a ghost town in Santa Clara County, now submerged by the Lexington Reservoir. Originally located along Los Gatos Creek, the town was 550 feet above sea level.
Lexington started out as a sawmill built in 1848 by Isaac Br ...
, now a ghost town
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Lexington, Georgia
The city of Lexington is the county seat of Oglethorpe County, Georgia, United States. The population was 239 at the 2000 census.
Lexington is home to Shaking Rock Park.
History
Lexington was founded in 1800. That same year, the seat of Ogleth ...
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Lexington, Illinois
Lexington is a city in McLean County, Illinois, United States. The population was 2,090 at the 2020 census. There are two theories regarding the etymology of the city name. One says it was named for the Battle of Lexington, where General Gridley' ...
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Lexington, Indiana
Lexington is an unincorporated community in Lexington Township, Scott County, in the U.S. state of Indiana, located about 10 miles west of the Ohio River and 28 miles north of Louisville, Kentucky. The town itself was founded before Indiana beca ...
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Lexington, Carroll County, Indiana
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Lexington, Kansas
Lexington is a ghost town in Clark County, Kansas, United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 ...
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Lexington, Maine
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Lexington, Michigan
Lexington is a village in Sanilac County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,178 at the 2010 census. The village is located within Lexington Township.
Geography
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Lexington, Minnesota
Lexington is a city in Anoka County, Minnesota, United States, and is a northern suburb of the Twin Cities metropolitan area. The population was 2,049 at the 2010 census.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a ...
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Lexington, Mississippi
Lexington is a city in and the county seat of Holmes County, Mississippi, United States. The county was organized in 1833 and the city in 1836. The population was 1,731 at the 2010 census, down from 2,025 at the 2000 census. The estimated populat ...
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Lexington, Missouri
Lexington is a city in and the county seat of Lafayette County, Missouri. The population was 4,726 at the 2010 census. Located in western Missouri, Lexington lies approximately east of Kansas City and is part of the Greater Kansas City Metropol ...
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Lexington, Nebraska
Lexington is a city in Dawson County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 10,348 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Dawson County. Lexington is located in southern Nebraska, on the Platte River, southeast of North Platte. It si ...
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Lexington, New York
Lexington is a town in Greene County, New York, United States. The population was 770 at the 2020 census.US Census Bureau, 2020 Census, Lexington town, Greene County, New York https://www.census.gov/search-results.html?searchType=web&cssp=SERP&q= ...
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Lexington, North Carolina
Lexington is the county seat of Davidson County, North Carolina, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 18,931. It is located in central North Carolina, south of Winston-Salem. Major highways include I-85, I-85B, U ...
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Lexington, Ohio
Lexington is a village along the Clear Fork River in Troy Township and Washington Township in Richland County in the U.S. state of Ohio. It is part of the Mansfield, Ohio Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 4,822 at the 2010 cen ...
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Lexington, Oklahoma
Lexington is a city in Cleveland County, Oklahoma, United States. The city population was 2,152 at the 2010 census.
Geography
Lexington is located in southern Cleveland County at . It is bordered on the west by the Canadian River, which forms the ...
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Lexington, Oregon
Lexington is a city in Morrow County, Oregon, United States. The population was 238 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Pendleton– Hermiston Micropolitan Statistical Area.
History
Lexington was named by early settler William Penland f ...
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Lexington, South Carolina
Lexington is the largest town in and the county seat of Lexington County, South Carolina, United States. It is a suburb of the state capital, Columbia. The population was 23,568 at the 2020 Census, and it is the second-largest municipality in th ...
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Lexington County, South Carolina
Lexington County is a county located in the U.S. state of South Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 293,991, and the 2021 population estimate was 300,137. Its county seat and largest town is Lexington. The county was chartered ...
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Lexington, Tennessee
Lexington is a city in Henderson County, Tennessee, United States. Lexington is midway between Memphis and Nashville, lying south of Interstate 40, which connects the two cities. The population was 7,956 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat ...
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Lexington, Texas
Lexington is a town in Lee County, Texas, United States. Its population was 1,217 at the 2020 census. Lexington, a cattle trading town, is about west of Bryan.
History
Lexington's first post office was called String Prairie in 1848, named for t ...
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Lexington, Virginia
Lexington is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia. At the 2020 census, the population was 7,320. It is the county seat of Rockbridge County, although the two are separate jurisdictions. The Bureau of Economic Analysis combines ...
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Lexington (plantation)
Lexington was an 18th-century plantation on Mason's Neck in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. The estate belonged to several generations of the Mason family, and is now part of Mason Neck State Park.
Lexington was originally part of the ...
, Virginia
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Lexington, Washington
Lexington is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Cowlitz County, Washington, United States. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 3,834. During the 2010 census, Lexington was part of the West Side Highway CDP ...
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Lexington Avenue (Manhattan)
Lexington Avenue, often colloquially abbreviated as "Lex", is an avenue on the East Side of the borough of Manhattan in New York City that carries southbound one-way traffic from East 131st Street to Gramercy Park at East 21st Street. Along its ...
, a street in New York City
Ships
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''Lexington''-class aircraft carrier, the first operational aircraft carrier class in the United States Navy
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Steamship ''Lexington'', which burned and sank off the coast of Long Island in 1840
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Other uses
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Battles of Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. The battles were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord ...
, the first battles of the American Revolutionary War
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Lexington (automobile)
The Lexington was an automobile manufactured in Connersville, Indiana, from 1910 to 1927. From the beginning, Lexingtons, like most other Indiana-built automobiles, were assembled cars, built with components from many different suppliers. The Tho ...
, an early automobile
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Lexington (cigarette), a Luxembourgish brand
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Lexington (horse)
Lexington (March 17, 1850 – July 1, 1875) was a United States Thoroughbred race horse who won six of his seven race starts. Perhaps his greatest fame, however, came as the most successful sire of the second half of the nineteenth century; ...
, a 19th-century champion racehorse
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Lexington Partners
Lexington Partners is the largest independent manager of secondary acquisition and co-Investment funds in the world, founded in 1994. Lexington manages approximately $55 billion of which an unprecedented $14 billion was committed to the firm's ...
, a private equity firm
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Lexington Queen, a dance club in Tokyo
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Lexington Steele
Clifton Todd Britt (born November 28, 1969), better known by his stage name Lexington Steele, is an American pornographic actor, director, producer, and former stockbroker. He is the owner of the adult production companies Mercenary Motion Pictu ...
, pornographic actor
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Lexington Tower, a summit in Washington state
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The Lexington
The Lexington, also known as Lexington Apartments, is a historic building located in Des Moines, Iowa, United States. The five-story brick structure on a raised basement was completed in 1908 as the city's first high-rise apartment building. with ...
, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Polk County, Iowa
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The Lexington (Liverpool), a residential tower in Liverpool, United Kingdom
* Lexington, the codename of a 2013 Intel
Atom
Every atom is composed of a nucleus and one or more electrons bound to the nucleus. The nucleus is made of one or more protons and a number of neutrons. Only the most common variety of hydrogen has no neutrons.
Every solid, liquid, gas, and ...
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Lexington Stakes (Keeneland), a thoroughbred horse race held at Keeneland Race Course, Lexington, Kentucky
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Lexington Stakes (NYRA), a discontinued thoroughbred horse race last held at Belmont Park, New York in 2007
See also
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Lexington Airport (disambiguation)
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Lexington Bridge (disambiguation)
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Lexington Avenue (disambiguation)
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Lexington station (disambiguation), train stations of the name
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Lexington Street (disambiguation)
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