Paxton

Paxton may refer to:

Places

United Kingdom

• Great Paxton, England
• Little Paxton, England
• Paxton, Scottish Borders, UK
• Paxton House, Berwickshire, Scotland
• Paxton's Tower, near the National Botanic Garden of Wales in Carmarthenshire, Wales

United States

• Paxton, California
• Paxton, Florida
• Paxton, Illinois
• Paxton, Indiana
• Paxton, Massachusetts
• Paxton, Nebraska
• Paxton, Pennsylvania
• Paxton, West Virginia
• Paxtang, Pennsylvania (a variation of Paxton)
  • Paxton Boys, American frontiersmen, vigilantes from Paxtang, Pennsylvania
• Paxville, South Carolina

Townships

• Paxton Township, Minnesota
• Lower Paxton Township, Pennsylvania
• Middle Paxton Township, Pennsylvania
• Upper Paxton Township, Pennsylvania
• Paxton Township, Ross County, Ohio

Natural features

• Paxton Creek, a tributary of the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania

Schools

• See Carlheim for Margaret Paxton Memorial Learning & Resource Campus, Leesburg, Virginia

Australia

• Paxton, New South Wales

Business

• Paxton Automotive, a manufacturer of centrifugal-type superchargers
• Paxton Media Group, owner of WPSD-TV in Paducah, Kentucky, and newspapers such as the Daily Star (Hammond, Louisiana)
• Paxton Access, a UK based access control company

Other uses

• Paxton (name)
• Paxton (genus), a genus of fish from the family Apogonidae
• Paxton Phoenix, a rear-engined prototype car developed in 1953.
• Paxton (soil), the state soil of Massachusetts.
• Paxton, a diesel engine from Thomas & Friends.