Compton
Compton may refer to:
Places
Canada
- Compton, Quebec
- Compton County, Quebec
- Compton (provincial electoral district), a former Quebec provincial electoral district now part of Mégantic-Compton
- Compton (electoral district), a former Quebec federal electoral district
- Compton Island, in the Queen Charlotte Strait region of British Columbia
- Compton Island Indian Reserve No. 6, comprising all of Compton Island and three small offshore islands
- Compton Point, a headland in the Queen Charlotte Strait region of British Columbia
- Compton Creek, a tributary of the Adam River on Vancouver Island, British Columbia
- Compton Névé, a névé (icefield) in the Pacific Ranges, British Columbia
- Compton Mountain, a mountain in the Compton Névé, Pacific Ranges, British Columbia
- Compton Glacier, a glacier in the Compton Névé, Pacific Ranges, British Columbia
England
- Compton and Shawford, Hampshire
- Compton, Test Valley, Hampshire
- Compton End, Hampshire
- Compton, Berkshire
- Compton, Derbyshire
- Compton, Guildford, Surrey
- Compton, Isle of Wight
- Compton, Plymouth, Devon
- Compton, South Hams, Devon
- Compton, South Staffordshire
- Compton, Waverley, Surrey
- Compton, West Sussex
- Compton, Wiltshire
- Compton, Wolverhampton, West Midlands
United States
- Compton, Arkansas, an unincorporated community
- Compton, California, a city south-southeast of downtown Los Angeles
- Compton, Illinois, a village
- Compton, Maryland, an unincorporated community
- Compton Township, Otter Tail County, Minnesota
- Compton, Virginia, an unincorporated community
- Compton (Trappe, Maryland), a home on the National Register of Historic Places
In science and technology
- Compton scattering or the Compton effect, an effect observed when photons interact with electrons
- Compton (software), an X composite manager; third-degree fork of Metacity
- Compton (crater), a lunar crater
- Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, a NASA spacecraft
- Compton Tortoiseshell (Nymphalis vaualbum), butterfly
- Compton wavelength, a quantum mechanical property of a particle
Other uses
- Compton (surname)
- "Compton", a song by The Game, on the album Doctor's Advocate
- Compton (album), a 2015 album by Dr. Dre
- Compton Family Ice Arena, an ice hockey arena, Indiana, United States
- Compton's Encyclopedia
- Compton Petroleum, a petroleum exploration company based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
See also
Other places in England
- Cassey Compton, Gloucestershire
- Compton Abbas, Dorset
- Compton Abdale, Gloucestershire
- Compton Bassett, Wiltshire
- Compton Bay, Isle of Wight
- Compton Beauchamp, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire)
- Compton Bishop, Somerset
- Compton Chamberlayne, Wiltshire
- Compton Dando, Somerset
- Compton Down, a hill on the Isle of Wight
- Compton Down, Compton, a hill in West Sussex
- Compton Dundon, Somerset
- Compton Durville, Somerset
- Compton Martin, Somerset
- Compton Pauncefoot, Somerset
- Compton Valence, Dorset
- Compton Verney, Warwickshire
- East Compton, Somerset
- Easter Compton, South Gloucestershire
- Compton Greenfield, a hamlet near Easter Compton
- Fenny Compton, Warwickshire
- Long Compton, Warwickshire
- Nether Compton, Dorset
- Over Compton, Dorset
- West Compton, Dorset
Other places in the United States
- Compton Heights, St. Louis
- West Compton, California
- Little Compton, Rhode Island
- Compton Bassett (Upper Marlboro, Maryland), a home on the National Register of Historic Places
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