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Chesapeake is an independent city in Virginia, United States. At the 2020 census, the population was 249,422, making it the second-most populous city in Virginia, the tenth largest in the Mid-Atlantic, and the 90th-most populous city in the United States. [4] Chesapeake is included in the Hampton Roads metropolitan area.
Some of the cities in the Hampton Roads area, including Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Newport News, Hampton, and Suffolk were formed from an entire county. These cities are no longer county seats, since the counties ceased to exist once the cities were completely formed but are functionally equivalent to counties.
Chesapeake City is a town in Cecil County, Maryland, United States.The population was 736 at the 2020 census. The town was originally named by Bohemian colonist Augustine Herman [3] the Village of Bohemia — or Bohemia Manor — but the name was changed in 1839 after the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal (C&D Canal) was built in 1829.
This is a complete list of towns in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. An incorporated town in Virginia is the equivalent of a city in most other states, i.e. a municipality which is part of a county. Incorporated cities in Virginia are independent jurisdictions and separate from any county.
Location of Chesapeake in Virginia. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Chesapeake, Virginia.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in the independent city of Chesapeake, Virginia, United States.
South Chesapeake City Historic District: July 15, 1974 : East of Maryland Route 213, south of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Chesapeake City: 46: St. Francis ...
Chesapeake, an Amtrak commuter service between Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. Chesapeake (train, 1994–1995), an Amtrak service between New York City and Richmond, Virginia; Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, a former American railroad, operating from 1869 to 1972 in the state of Virginia; Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
Two other Chesepian towns were Apasus and Chesepioc, both near the Chesapeake Bay in what is now the independent city of Virginia Beach. Chesepioc was located in near Great Neck Point. Archaeologists and others have found numerous Native American arrowheads, stone axes, pottery, and beads in Great Neck Point.