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

England

• Compton, Wolverhampton, West Midlands
• Compton, Isle of Wight
• Compton, Berkshire
• Compton, West Sussex
• Compton, Guildford, Surrey
• Compton, Waverley, Surrey
• Compton, Plymouth, Devon

United States

• Compton, Arkansas
• Compton, California, a city south-southeast of downtown Los Angeles
• Compton, Illinois
• Compton, Maryland
• Compton (Trappe, Maryland), a home on the National Register of Historic Places

Other uses

• Compton (surname)
• Compton (crater), a lunar crater
• Compton Petroleum, a petroleum exploration company based in Calgary, Alberta
• Compton's Encyclopedia

See also

• Compton and Shawford, Hampshire
• Compton Abbas, Dorset
• Compton Abdale, Gloucestershire
• Compton Bassett, Wiltshire
• Compton Beauchamp, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire)
• Compton Bishop, Somerset
• Compton Dando, Somerset
• Compton Dundon, Somerset
• Compton Greenfield, Gloucestershire
• Compton Martin, Somerset
• Compton Pauncefoot, Somerset
• Compton Valence, Dorset
• Nether Compton, Dorset
• Over Compton, Dorset
• West Compton, Dorset
• West Compton, California
• Little Compton, Rhode Island
• Compton Bassett (Upper Marlboro, Maryland), a home on the National Register of Historic Places
• Compton scattering or the Compton effect, an effect observed when photons interact with electrons