Atherton may refer to:

Places

Australia

Atherton, Queensland Atherton is a rural town and Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality in the Tablelands Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Atherton had a population of 7,724 people. Geography Atherton is on the Atherton Tableland in ...

, 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. It has very deep, rich basaltic soils and the main industry is agriculture. The principal river flowing across the plateau is the B ...

, a fertile plateau in Queensland *

Shire of Atherton The Shire of Atherton was a Local government in Australia, local government area of Queensland. It was located on the Atherton Tableland, a plateau forming part of the Great Dividing Range west of the city of Cairns, Queensland, Cairns. The shir ...

, a former local government area of Queensland on the Atherton Tableland ** Atherton Courthouse ** Atherton Performing Arts Theatre, former military depot and now theatre ** Atherton War Cemetery, built in 1942 ** Atherton War Memorial, memorial at Kennedy Highway

Canada

* Atherton, Ontario, a hamlet in Norfolk County, Ontario *

Mount Atherton Mount Atherton is a mountain in Canada. It is located in the province of Yukon, in the western part of the country, 4,100 km west of the capital Ottawa. The peak of Mount Atherton is 1,892 metres above sea level, or 625 metres above the surr ...

, a mountain in Yukon

Malaysia

* Ladang Atherton, part of the electoral district N.31 Bagan Pinang,

Port Dickson Port Dickson (Negeri Sembilan Malay: ), colloquially referred to as PD, is a beach resort in Port Dickson District, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia. It is the second largest urban area in the state after Seremban, the state capital. The town's admi ...

United Kingdom

Atherton, Greater Manchester Atherton () is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan in Greater Manchester, England and Historic counties of England, historically part of Lancashire. The town, including Hindsford, Howe Bridge and Hag Fold railway station, Hag Fold, is ...

, town in Wigan district, historically in Lancashire, England ** Atherton (ward), electoral ward **

Atherton Hall, Leigh Atherton Hall was a country house and estate in Atherton historically a part of Lancashire, England. The hall was built between 1723 and 1742 and demolished in 1824. Christopher Saxton's map shows there was a medieval deer park here in the time ...

, country house and estate ** Atherton Urban District, local government district from 1863 until 1974 **

Atherton High School, Greater Manchester Atherton High School (formerly Atherton Community School & Hesketh Fletcher CofE High School) is a mixed Secondary school and sixth form located in Atherton in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester Greater Manchester is a ...

, mixed secondary free school * Atherton Line, section of the Manchester-Southport Line, between Wigan and Salford ** Atherton railway station **

Atherton Bag Lane railway station Atherton Bag Lane railway station served the town of Atherton, Lancashire Lancashire ( , ; abbreviated ''Lancs'') is a ceremonial county in North West England. It is bordered by Cumbria to the north, North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire t ...

, a former station

United States

California

Atherton, California Atherton ( ) is an incorporated town in San Mateo County, California, United States. Its population was 6,823 as of July 2023 estimates. The town's zoning regulations permit only one single-family home per acre in new subdivisions, though smal ...

, a town in San Mateo County in the San Francisco Bay Area ** Atherton station, a former station on the Caltrain railway line in this town ** Atherton House, also known as the Faxon Atherton Mansion, a historic building in San Francisco, California **

Menlo-Atherton High School Menlo-Atherton High School (known as M-A to locals) is a four-year public high school secondary school located in Atherton, California. Menlo-Atherton is part of the Sequoia Union High School District.

, a four-year public comprehensive secondary school

Indiana

Atherton, Indiana Atherton is an unincorporated community in northern Otter Creek Township, Vigo County, in the U.S. state of Indiana Indiana ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders L ...

, an unincorporated community in Vigo County *

West Atherton, Indiana West Atherton or Atherton is an unincorporated community in southwestern Florida Township, Parke County, in the U.S. state of Indiana Indiana ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United S ...

* Atherton Building,

Butler University Butler University is a private university in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. Founded in 1855 and named after founder Ovid Butler, the university has over 60 major academic fields of study within six colleges in the arts, business, communic ...

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 Honolulu ( ; ) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and most populous city of the U.S. state ...

Kentucky

Athertonville, Kentucky Athertonville is an unincorporated community located in LaRue County, Kentucky, United States. The community was originally named Medcalf when first established in April 1884, but was renamed the following month to Athertonville. History Ath ...

, former home of Atherton pre-prohibition whiskey *

Atherton High School, Louisville Atherton High School is a public school in the Highlands district of Louisville, Kentucky Louisville is the List of cities in Kentucky, most populous city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, sixth-most populous city in the Southeastern United ...

, public school in Louisville, Kentucky

Massachusetts

Atherton Bridge The Atherton Bridge is a historic iron truss bridge in Lancaster, Massachusetts, spanning the South Branch of the Nashua River. It is a rare example of a hybrid pony truss that is similar to the 19th century truss design of Simeon S. Post. It ...

, a historic iron truss bridge in Lancaster, Massachusetts, spanning the South Branch of the Nashua River

Missouri

Atherton, Missouri Atherton is an unincorporated community in Jackson County, in the U.S. state of Missouri Missouri (''see #Etymology and pronunciation, pronunciation'') is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the Un ...

, an unincorporated community in Jackson County

Michigan

Atherton Community Schools Atherton Community School District is one of five public school districts serving Burton Genesee County in the U.S. state of Michigan Michigan ( ) is a peninsular U.S. state, state in the Great Lakes region, Great Lakes region of ...

, a school district in the city of Burton, Michigan * Atherton Settlement, within the city of

Burton, Michigan Burton is a city in Genesee County, Michigan, United States and a suburb of Flint. The population was 29,715 at the 2020 census, and was estimated to be 29,420 in 2024. making Burton the second largest city in Genesee County. Neighborhoods * ...

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 ...

, a station on the Charlotte Trolley line in the South End of Charlotte, NC

Oklahoma

* The Atherton Hotel, within

Oklahoma State University Oklahoma State University (informally Oklahoma State or OSU) is a public land-grant research university in Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States. The university was established in 1890 under the legislation of the Morrill Act. Originally known ...

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 Apartme ...

, a Pennsylvania State University dormitory

Vermont

* Atherton Farmstead, a historic farm property in Cavendish, Vermont

Elsewhere

* Atherton Islands, off Antarctica *

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

, South Georgia

People

* Atherton (surname), includes a list of notable people with the surname *

Atherton Blight Atherton Blight (November 10, 1834 – November 4, 1909) was a Philadelphia lawyer, businessperson, author, diarist, and philanthropist who traveled extensively in the middle of the 19th century to Europe and southwest Asia. Blight was also a foun ...

(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, American politician * Atherton Curtis (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 The Goldman Environmental Prize is a prize awarded annually to grassroots environmental activists. History Awardees are named from ...

, Dominican agronomist and environmentalist * Atherton Rawstorne (1855–1936), British Bishop of Whalley *

Atherton Seidell Atherton Seidell (1878 – July 25, 1961), a founder of the American Documentation Institute (predecessor of the American Society for Information Science), was a chemist and who became a strong proponent of the use of microfilm for the management ...

(1878–1961), American chemist and library scientist * Atherton Thayer, 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 ph ...

, in organic chemistry *

Jiles–Atherton model In electromagnetism and materials science, the Jiles–Atherton model of magnetic hysteresis was introduced in 1984 by David Jiles and D. L. Atherton. This is one of the most popular models of magnetic hysteresis. Its main advantage is the fact ...

, magnetic hysteresis model

Organisms

* Atherton antechinus (''Antechinus godmani''), also known as Godman's antechinus, a species of small carnivorous marsupial native to Australia * Atherton delma (''Delma mitella''), a species of lizard in the family Pygopodidae endemic to Australia * Atherton oak, the common name of the tall Australian tree ''Athertonia diversifolia'' *'' Athertonia'', the monotypic genus of the Atherton oak, from the family * '' Rubus probus'' or Atherton raspberry, a wild tropical raspberry species native to Papua New Guinea and parts of Australia * Atherton sauropus (''Sauropus macranthus''), a rainforest tree from Asia, Melanesia and north-east Queensland *

Atherton scrubwren The Atherton scrubwren (''Sericornis keri'') is a bird species. Placed in the family Pardalotidae in the Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy, this has met with opposition and indeed is now known to be wrong; they rather belong to the independent family Ac ...

(''Sericornis keri''), an Australian bird species

Sports

* Atherton F.C., a former English association football team based in Atherton, Greater Manchester * Atherton Laburnum Rovers F.C., an English association football team based in Atherton, Greater Manchester. * Atherton Collieries A.F.C., 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