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Norfolk (locally / ˈ n ɔːr f ʊ k / ⓘ NOR-fuuk) is an independent city in Virginia, United States.As of the 2020 census, Norfolk had a population of 238,005, making it the third-most populous city in Virginia after neighboring Virginia Beach and Chesapeake, and the 96th-most populous city in the nation. [4]
Norfolk (/ ˈ n ɔːr f ə k / NOR-fək) is a ceremonial county in the East of England and East Anglia.It borders Lincolnshire and The Wash to the north-west, the North Sea to the north and east, Cambridgeshire to the west, and Suffolk to the south.
The history of Norfolk, Virginia as a modern settlement begins in 1636. The city was named after the English county of Norfolk [1] [2] and was formally incorporated in 1736. . The city was burned by orders of the outgoing Virginia governor Lord Dunmore in 1776 during the second year of the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), although it was soon rebu
Lower Paleolithic (2,500,000 to 300,000 BC) In 2005 it was discovered that Norfolk contained one of the earliest finds of European man. [2] The find revealed flint tools, similar to those found on the Suffolk coast at Pakefield which were dated at around 668,000 BC [2] and a find at Happisburgh in the "Cromer Forest Bed" has been dated as being approximately 900,000 years old and has given us ...
Norfolk County was a county of the South Hampton Roads in eastern Virginia in the United States that was created in 1691. After the American Civil War, ...
Historic Districts in Norfolk Many of Norfolk's neighborhoods, buildings, and landmarks have notable national and local historic significance. The city has four Locally Designated Historic Districts, Ghent, Downtown, West Freemason, East Freemason, and Hodges House (consisting of a single structure). [ 1 ]
Downtown Norfolk serves as the traditional center of commerce, government, and culture in the Hampton Roads region. Norfolk, Virginia 's downtown waterfront shipping and port activities historically played host to numerous and often noxious port and shipping-related uses.
This is a list of settlements in Norfolk by population based on the results of the 2011 census. The following United Kingdom census took place in 2021 . In 2011, there were 23 built-up area subdivisions with 5,000 or more inhabitants in Norfolk , shown in the table below.