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, Berkshire
• Compton, Derbyshire
• Compton, Guildford, Surrey
• Compton, Isle of Wight
• Compton, Plymouth, Devon
• Compton, South Hams, Devon
• Compton, South Staffordshire
• Compton, Test Valley, Hampshire (in King's Somborne)
• Compton, Waverley, Surrey (near Farnham)
• Compton, West Sussex
• Compton, West Yorkshire (in Collingham)
• Compton, Wiltshire
• Compton, Winchester, Hampshire (in Compton and Shawford)
• 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, Missouri, a ghost town
• Compton, Virginia, an unincorporated community
• Compton (Trappe, Maryland), a home on the National Register of Historic Places

In science and technology

• Compton (crater), a lunar crater
• Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, a NASA spacecraft
• Compton Limestone, a geologic unit in Missouri
• Compton scattering, an effect observed when photons interact with electrons
• Compton (software), an X composite manager; third-degree fork of Metacity
• Compton tortoiseshell (Nymphalis vaualbum), a butterfly
• Compton wavelength, a quantum mechanical property of a particle

Other uses

• Compton (surname)
• "Compton", a song by The Game from Doctor's Advocate
• "Compton", a song by Kendrick Lamar from Good Kid, M.A.A.D City
• 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