Pomona may refer to:

Places

Argentina

Pomona, Río Negro Pomona is a small village on the Choele Choel Island in the Avellaneda Department in the Río Negro Province, in Argentina. It was already a crossing point for the Negro River to the island in 1890, when it was known as ''Paso Peñalva'', on the ...

Australia

Pomona, Queensland Pomona is a rural town and locality in the Shire of Noosa, Queensland, Australia. In the the locality of Pomona had a population of 2,910 people. Pomona is located around 135 kilometres north of Brisbane. It is located at the base of Mount Co ...

, Australia, a town in the Shire of Noosa * Pomona, New South Wales, Australia

Belize

* Pomona, Belize, a municipality in Stann Creek District

Mexico

Pomona, Tabasco Pomona is a Maya archaeological site in the Mexican state of Tabasco, municipality of Tenosique, about 30 miles (50 km) east of Palenque. Its flowering was in the Late Classic period. Site Pomona is a dispersed settlement built in a fertile, ...

, a Mayan archeological site

Namibia

Pomona, Namibia Pomona is a ghost town in southern Namibia south of Lüderitz on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. It is about 15 km south of Elizabeth Bay, Namibia, in an area called Sperrgebiet, a diamond mining zone with restricted access. Around 1910, ...

New Zealand

Pomona Island Pomona Island is the largest island within Lake Manapouri, in Fiordland National Park, in New Zealand's South Island. With an area of , it is the largest island to be found within any New Zealand lake. The island is uninhabited, and lies clos ...

, New Zealand

South Africa

Pomona, Kempton Park Pomona is a northerly suburb of Kempton Park, in Gauteng province, South Africa. In the late 20th century Pomona functioned mainly as agricultural small holdings, producing good fresh vegetables and fruit. Since around 2015 the area is taken ove ...

United Kingdom

* Pomona, an old name for the

Mainland Mainland is defined as "relating to or forming the main part of a country or continent, not including the islands around it egardless of status under territorial jurisdiction by an entity" The term is often politically, economically and/or dem ...

of Orkney * Pomona Docks, in Manchester, England

United States

Pomona, California Pomona is a city in Los Angeles County, California. Pomona is located in the Pomona Valley, between the Inland Empire and the San Gabriel Valley. At the 2020 census, the city's population was 151,713. The main campus of California State Polyte ...

Pomona, Illinois Pomona is an unincorporated community in Pomona_Township,_Jackson_County,_Illinois, Pomona Township, Jackson County, Illinois, Jackson County, Illinois, United States. Pomona is located in the Shawnee National Forest south of Murphysboro, Illinoi ...

Pomona, Kansas Pomona is a city in Franklin County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 884. History Pomona was founded in about 1869. It was named for Pomona, the Roman goddess of fruit trees. The first post offic ...

* Pomona, Maryland * Pomona, Michigan *

Pomona, Missouri Pomona is an unincorporated area, unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Howell County, Missouri, Howell County, Missouri, United States. It is located midway between Willow Springs, Missouri, Willow Springs and West Plains, ...

Pomona, New Jersey Pomona is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) located within Galloway Township, in Atlantic County, New Jersey.Pomona, New York Pomona is a village partly in the town of Ramapo and partly in the town of Haverstraw in Rockland County, New York, United States. It is located north of New Hempstead, east of Harriman State Park, north of Monsey and west of Mount Ivy. Acco ...

* Pomona, Tennessee *

Pomona, Washington Pomona is an unincorporated community in Yakima County, Washington, United States, located immediately northeast of Selah. The community was established in 1885 around a train station the Northern Pacific Railway called Selah. The name was changed ...

Academic institutions

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona, CPP, or Cal Poly"Cal Poly" may also refer to California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo in San Luis Obispo. See the '' name'' section of this article for more info ...

, a public polytechnic university *

Pomona College Pomona College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Claremont, California. It was established in 1887 by a group of Congregationalists who wanted to recreate a "college of the New England type" in Southern California. In 1925, it became ...

, a liberal arts college in Claremont, California

Other uses

Pomona (fruit survey) Pomona may refer to: Places Argentina * Pomona, Río Negro Australia * Pomona, Queensland, Australia, a town in the Shire of Noosa * Pomona, New South Wales, Australia Belize * Pomona, Belize, a municipality in Stann Creek District Mexico * ...

, a treatise on or a survey of

fruit In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants that is formed from the ovary after flowering. Fruits are the means by which flowering plants (also known as angiosperms) disseminate their seeds. Edible fruits in particu ...

varieties *

Pomona (mythology) Pomona (, ) was a goddess of fruitful abundance in ancient Roman religion and myth. Her name comes from the Latin word ''pomum'', "fruit", specifically orchard fruit. Pomona was said to be a wood nymph. Etymology The name ''Pōmōna'' is a ...

, the Roman goddess of fruit and nut trees * ''Pomona'' (opera), a German-language opera by Reinhard Keiser * ''Pomona'' (stage play), by Alistair McDowall *

Pomona station (disambiguation) Pomona station may refer to: * Pomona railway station, a Citytrain station in Pomona, Queensland, Australia * Pomona station (California) Pomona station, also called Pomona–Downtown station, ( ) is a train station in Pomona, California, Unite ...

, train stations and tram stops * ''Pomona'', a ballet with music by

Constant Lambert Leonard Constant Lambert (23 August 190521 August 1951) was a British composer, conductor, and author. He was the founder and music director of the Royal Ballet, and (alongside Ninette de Valois and Frederick Ashton) he was a major figure in th ...

* "Pomona", a waltz by

Emile Waldteufel Emil or Emile may refer to: Literature *''Emile, or On Education'' (1762), a treatise on education by Jean-Jacques Rousseau * ''Émile'' (novel) (1827), an autobiographical novel based on Émile de Girardin's early life *''Emil and the Detective ...

Professor Pomona Sprout The following fictional characters are staff members and denizens of Hogwarts in the ''Harry Potter'' books written by J. K. Rowling. The staff and their positions Teachers and staff members The following teachers and staff members do not ha ...

, a character from the ''Harry Potter'' series by J.K. Rowling *

32 Pomona Pomona ( ; minor planet designation: 32 Pomona) is a stony main-belt asteroid that is in diameter. It was discovered by German-French astronomer Hermann Mayer Salomon Goldschmidt on October 26, 1854, and is named after Pōmōna, the Roman godde ...

, an asteroid * The ''

Herefordshire Pomona The ''Herefordshire Pomona'' is a 19th-century catalogue of the apples and pears that were grown in the county of Herefordshire in England. It was one of the first attempts to fully catalogue the existing varieties of English fruit and has been ...

'', a nineteenth-century fruit catalogue *

Pomona Electronics Fluke Corporation is a manufacturer of industrial test, measurement, and diagnostic equipment including electronic test equipment. It was started in 1948 by John Fluke while he was employed at General Electric. History Fluke Corporation was ...

* HMS ''Pomona'' (1778) a 28 gun British naval frigate * ''Pomona'' (sternwheeler) was an American river steamboat launched in 1898 * ''Pomona'' (1181 tons) was an American owned emigrant ship that sank in 1859 with the loss of 389 lives