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href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D9%88%DA%A9%D9%88%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%88%D9%86%D8%8C_%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%AC%DB%8C%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%A7" title="پوکووزون، ویرجینیا – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="پوکووزون، ویرجینیا" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bar mw-list-item"><a href="https://bar.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poquoson" title="Poquoson – Bavarian" lang="bar" hreflang="bar" data-title="Poquoson" data-language-autonym="Boarisch" data-language-local-name="Bavarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Boarisch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poquoson" title="Poquoson – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="Poquoson" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cebuano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poquoson" title="Poquoson – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Poquoson" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poquoson" title="Poquoson – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Poquoson" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poquoson_city_konderria_(Virginia)" title="Poquoson city konderria (Virginia) – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Poquoson city konderria (Virginia)" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D8%A7%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%8C_%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%AC%DB%8C%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%A7" title="پاکوسن، ویرجینیا – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="پاکوسن، ویرجینیا" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poquoson" title="Poquoson – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Poquoson" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-glk mw-list-item"><a href="https://glk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D9%88%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_(%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A7)" title="پوکوسون (ويرجينيا) – Gilaki" lang="glk" hreflang="glk" data-title="پوکوسون (ويرجينيا)" data-language-autonym="گیلکی" data-language-local-name="Gilaki" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>گیلکی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poquoson,_Virginia" title="Poquoson, Virginia – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Poquoson, Virginia" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poquoson_(Virginia)" title="Poquoson (Virginia) – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Poquoson (Virginia)" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ht mw-list-item"><a href="https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poquoson,_Vijini" title="Poquoson, Vijini – Haitian Creole" lang="ht" hreflang="ht" data-title="Poquoson, Vijini" data-language-autonym="Kreyòl ayisyen" data-language-local-name="Haitian Creole" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kreyòl ayisyen</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lld mw-list-item"><a href="https://lld.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poquoson_(Virginia)" title="Poquoson (Virginia) – Ladin" lang="lld" hreflang="lld" data-title="Poquoson (Virginia)" data-language-autonym="Ladin" data-language-local-name="Ladin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ladin</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poquoson,_Virginia" title="Poquoson, Virginia – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="Poquoson, Virginia" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malagasy</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poquoson" title="Poquoson – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Poquoson" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9D%E3%82%B3%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3_(%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8%E3%83%8B%E3%82%A2%E5%B7%9E)" title="ポコソン (バージニア州) – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ポコソン (バージニア州)" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ce mw-list-item"><a href="https://ce.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD_(%D0%92%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B8)" title="Покосон (Виргини) – Chechen" lang="ce" hreflang="ce" data-title="Покосон (Виргини)" data-language-autonym="Нохчийн" data-language-local-name="Chechen" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Нохчийн</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nds mw-list-item"><a href="https://nds.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poquoson_(Virginia)" title="Poquoson (Virginia) – Low German" lang="nds" hreflang="nds" data-title="Poquoson (Virginia)" data-language-autonym="Plattdüütsch" data-language-local-name="Low German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Plattdüütsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poquoson" title="Poquoson – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Poquoson" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poquoson" title="Poquoson – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Poquoson" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD" title="Покосон – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Покосон" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poquoson,_Virginia" title="Poquoson, Virginia – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Poquoson, Virginia" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD_(%D0%92%D0%B8%D1%80%D1%9F%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0)" title="Покосон (Вирџинија) – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Покосон (Вирџинија)" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poquoson,_Virginia" title="Poquoson, Virginia – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Poquoson, Virginia" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poquoson" title="Poquoson – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Poquoson" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poquoson" title="Poquoson – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Poquoson" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tt mw-list-item"><a href="https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD_(%D0%92%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F)" title="Покосон (Вирджиния) – Tatar" lang="tt" hreflang="tt" data-title="Покосон (Вирджиния)" data-language-autonym="Татарча / tatarça" data-language-local-name="Tatar" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Татарча / tatarça</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poquoson,_Virginia" title="Poquoson, Virginia – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="Poquoson, Virginia" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkçe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD_(%D0%92%D1%96%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%96%D1%8F)" title="Покосон (Вірджинія) – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="Покосон (Вірджинія)" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Українська</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ur mw-list-item"><a href="https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D9%88%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%A6%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86%D8%8C_%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AC%DB%8C%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%A7" title="پوکوئسون، ورجینیا – Urdu" lang="ur" hreflang="ur" data-title="پوکوئسون، ورجینیا" data-language-autonym="اردو" data-language-local-name="Urdu" 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city</a></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:PoquosonWaterfront.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Boats parked at the Poquoson Marina. Boating has been an important part of Poquoson's economy since its inception."><img alt="Boats parked at the Poquoson Marina. Boating has been an important part of Poquoson's economy since its inception." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/PoquosonWaterfront.jpg/200px-PoquosonWaterfront.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/PoquosonWaterfront.jpg/300px-PoquosonWaterfront.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/PoquosonWaterfront.jpg/400px-PoquosonWaterfront.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="960" /></a></span><div class="ib-settlement-caption">Boats parked at the Poquoson Marina. Boating has been an important part of Poquoson's economy since its inception.</div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data maptable"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1028600610">.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-cols{text-align:center;display:table;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-cols-row{display:table-row}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-cols-cell{display:table-cell;vertical-align:middle}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-cols-cellt{display:table-cell;vertical-align:top}</style> <div class="ib-settlement-cols"> <div class="ib-settlement-cols-row"><div class="ib-settlement-cols-cell"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Poquoson_Seal.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Official seal of Poquoson, Virginia"><img alt="Official seal of Poquoson, Virginia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/55/Poquoson_Seal.jpg/97px-Poquoson_Seal.jpg" decoding="async" width="97" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/55/Poquoson_Seal.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="146" data-file-height="150" /></a></span><div class="ib-settlement-caption-link">Seal</div></div></div></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">Nickname: <div class="ib-settlement-nickname nickname">Bull Island</div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a class="mw-kartographer-map notheme mw-kartographer-container center" style="width: 250px; 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-76.37361</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states" title="List of sovereign states">Country</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Flag_of_the_United_States_%2823px%29.png/23px-Flag_of_the_United_States_%2823px%29.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Flag_of_the_United_States_%2823px%29.png/35px-Flag_of_the_United_States_%2823px%29.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Flag_of_the_United_States_%2823px%29.png/46px-Flag_of_the_United_States_%2823px%29.png 2x" data-file-width="69" data-file-height="39" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a></span></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/U.S._state" title="U.S. state">State</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Flag_of_Virginia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Virginia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Flag_of_Virginia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Virginia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Flag_of_Virginia.svg/46px-Flag_of_Virginia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="341" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Virginia" title="Virginia">Virginia</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/County" title="County">County</a></th><td class="infobox-data">None (<a href="/wiki/Independent_city_(United_States)" title="Independent city (United States)">Independent city</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data">1631</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Government<div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • <a href="/wiki/Mayor" title="Mayor">Mayor</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Gordon C. Helsel Jr.</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Area<div class="ib-settlement-fn"><sup id="cite_ref-CenPopGazetteer2019_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CenPopGazetteer2019-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • <a href="/wiki/Independent_city_(United_States)" title="Independent city (United States)">Independent city</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data">78.46 sq mi (203.20 km<sup>2</sup>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Land</th><td class="infobox-data">15.36 sq mi (39.77 km<sup>2</sup>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Water</th><td class="infobox-data">63.10 sq mi (163.43 km<sup>2</sup>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Elevation<div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th><td class="infobox-data">10 ft (3 m)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Population<div class="ib-settlement-fn"><span class="nowrap"> </span>(<a href="/wiki/2020_United_States_Census" class="mw-redirect" title="2020 United States Census">2020</a>)</div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • <a href="/wiki/Independent_city_(United_States)" title="Independent city (United States)">Independent city</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data">12,460</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Density</th><td class="infobox-data">811.20/sq mi (313.21/km<sup>2</sup>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_area" title="Metropolitan area">Metro</a><div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th><td class="infobox-data">1,799,674</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Time_zone" title="Time zone">Time zone</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/UTC%E2%88%925" class="mw-redirect" title="UTC−5">UTC−5</a> (<a href="/wiki/Eastern_Standard_Time_Zone" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastern Standard Time Zone">EST</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap"> • Summer (<a href="/wiki/Daylight_saving_time" title="Daylight saving time">DST</a>)</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/UTC%E2%88%924" class="mw-redirect" title="UTC−4">UTC−4</a> (<a href="/wiki/Eastern_Daylight_Time" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastern Daylight Time">EDT</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/ZIP_code" class="mw-redirect" title="ZIP code">ZIP code</a></th><td class="infobox-data adr"><div class="postal-code">23662</div></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Telephone_numbering_plan" title="Telephone numbering plan">Area code(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Area_codes_757_and_948" title="Area codes 757 and 948">757, 948</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Federal_Information_Processing_Standard" class="mw-redirect" title="Federal Information Processing Standard">FIPS code</a></th><td class="infobox-data">51-63768<sup id="cite_ref-GR2_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GR2-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Geographic_Names_Information_System" title="Geographic Names Information System">GNIS</a> feature ID</th><td class="infobox-data">1479363<sup id="cite_ref-GR3_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GR3-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.poquoson-va.gov">http://www.poquoson-va.gov</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Poquoson</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="'p' in 'pie'">p</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'k' in 'kind'">k</span><span title="/oʊ/: 'o' in 'code'">oʊ</span><span title="'s' in 'sigh'">s</span><span title="/ən/: 'on' in 'button'">ən</span></span>/</a></span></span>), informally known as <b>Bull Island</b>, is an <a href="/wiki/Independent_city_(United_States)" title="Independent city (United States)">independent city</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Commonwealth_(U.S._state)" title="Commonwealth (U.S. state)">Commonwealth</a> of <a href="/wiki/Virginia" title="Virginia">Virginia</a>, United States. As of the <a href="/wiki/2020_United_States_Census" class="mw-redirect" title="2020 United States Census">2020 census</a>, the population was 12,460.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Bureau_of_Economic_Analysis" title="Bureau of Economic Analysis">Bureau of Economic Analysis</a> combines the city of Poquoson with surrounding <a href="/wiki/York_County,_Virginia" title="York County, Virginia">York County</a> for statistical purposes. </p><p>Poquoson is located on the <a href="/wiki/Virginia_Peninsula" title="Virginia Peninsula">Virginia Peninsula</a>, in the <a href="/wiki/Hampton_Roads" title="Hampton Roads">Hampton Roads</a> metropolitan area. </p><p>Poquoson, which was formerly part of <a href="/wiki/York_County,_Virginia" title="York County, Virginia">York County</a>, became an <a href="/wiki/Incorporated_town" title="Incorporated town">incorporated town</a> in 1952 and an independent city in 1975. (In Virginia, municipalities incorporated as independent cities are not part of any county.) However, the ties remain close. Over 30 years after Poquoson became a politically independent entity, some constitutional services such as the courts, sheriff and jail continue to be shared with neighboring York County. </p><p>Poquoson is one of the oldest continuously named cities in <a href="/wiki/Virginia" title="Virginia">Virginia</a>. It is also one of the few to retain a name which derived from the Native Americans who inhabited the area before colonization by the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_England" title="Kingdom of England">English</a> began in the 17th century. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Poquoson,_Virginia&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The name of the city is a <a href="/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States" title="Native Americans in the United States">Native American</a> word which roughly translates to "great marsh." The term <a href="/wiki/Pocosin" title="Pocosin">pocosin</a>, with its varied spellings, was a term used by the area's inhabitants to describe a low, marshy, woody place covered by water in the winter, but dry in the summer. These <a href="/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas" title="Indigenous peoples of the Americas">Native Americans</a> were <a href="/wiki/Algonquian_peoples" title="Algonquian peoples">Algonquians</a>, a tribal group affiliated through the <a href="/wiki/Powhatan_Confederacy" class="mw-redirect" title="Powhatan Confederacy">Powhatan Confederacy</a>, and were defensive to the early colonizers. A petition to have the name of the parish and river changed was an attempt to rid the language of all vestiges of Indian terms.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> However, "poquoson" has survived through the centuries and has become a proper noun used to designate the present city. </p><p>The current city is a remnant of a larger area known from the first days of its settlement in the early 17th century by English colonists as the New Poquoson Parish of the <a href="/wiki/Church_of_England" title="Church of England">Church of England</a>. In the colonial times before <a href="/wiki/Separation_of_church_and_state" title="Separation of church and state">separation of church and state</a> and <a href="/wiki/Freedom_of_religion" title="Freedom of religion">freedom of religion</a> were established in Virginia and the United States, the church parish boundaries and governmental ones were often the same. In addition to the current city of Poquoson, New Poquoson Parish originally included the areas in York County known today as Poquoson, <a href="/wiki/Tabb,_Virginia" title="Tabb, Virginia">Tabb</a>, <a href="/wiki/Grafton,_Virginia" title="Grafton, Virginia">Grafton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dare,_Virginia" title="Dare, Virginia">Dare</a> and <a href="/wiki/Seaford,_Virginia" title="Seaford, Virginia">Seaford</a>. This land was opened for settlement in the year 1628 and was occupied by people from the English settlement of the <a href="/wiki/Virginia_Colony" class="mw-redirect" title="Virginia Colony">Virginia Colony</a> established at <a href="/wiki/Kecoughtan,_Virginia" title="Kecoughtan, Virginia">Kecoughtan</a> in 1610 by Sir <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Gates_(governor)" title="Thomas Gates (governor)">Thomas Gates</a> which eventually became part of the current <a href="/wiki/Hampton,_Virginia" title="Hampton, Virginia">City of Hampton</a>. The first reference to Poquoson is believed to be in Colonial records of a land grant of 500 acres (200 ha) in New Poquoson to Christopher Calthorpe in 1631 by a court in what became the former <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_City_County,_Virginia" title="Elizabeth City County, Virginia">Elizabeth City County</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-City_History_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-City_History-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This area located just outside of the Poquoson city limits in York County is still known in the 21st century as Calthrop Neck. </p><p>In 1634, the eight original <a href="/wiki/Shires_of_Virginia" title="Shires of Virginia">shires of Virginia</a> were created. Poquoson was located in <a href="/wiki/Charles_River_Shire" title="Charles River Shire">Charles River Shire</a>. The name was changed to <a href="/wiki/York_County,_Virginia" title="York County, Virginia">York County</a> in 1642–43. The <a href="/wiki/York_River_(Virginia)" title="York River (Virginia)">York River</a> was known earlier as the Charles River, and its name was also changed about the same time. </p><p>Poquoson grew as a close-knit rural community of York County for the next 300 years. During the <a href="/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a>, independence was won at nearby Yorktown, a major tourist attraction of the <a href="/wiki/Historic_Triangle_of_Colonial_Virginia" class="mw-redirect" title="Historic Triangle of Colonial Virginia">Historic Triangle of Colonial Virginia</a>. </p><p>One of the first land battles of the <a href="/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Big_Bethel" title="Battle of Big Bethel">Battle of Big Bethel</a> was fought nearby on June 10, 1861. In the spring of 1862, Union General <a href="/wiki/George_B._McClellan" title="George B. McClellan">George B. McClellan</a> put together an ambitious plan known as the <a href="/wiki/Peninsula_Campaign" class="mw-redirect" title="Peninsula Campaign">Peninsula Campaign</a> to end the war by marching up the peninsula from Union held <a href="/wiki/Fort_Monroe" title="Fort Monroe">Fort Monroe</a> and taking the Confederate capitol at <a href="/wiki/Richmond,_Virginia" title="Richmond, Virginia">Richmond</a>. A copy of his battle plans were obtained by Confederate spy <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Nelson_Conrad" title="Thomas Nelson Conrad">Thomas Nelson Conrad</a> and in response Confederate forces under General <a href="/wiki/John_B._Magruder" title="John B. Magruder">John B. Magruder</a> established three lines of defensive positions extending across the peninsula to stop McClellan's march towards Richmond. The first line of defense was anchored on the north by a redoubt on Ship Point near the mouth of the <a href="/wiki/Poquoson_River" title="Poquoson River">Poquoson River</a>. After the Confederates abandoned the position in 1863 the Union Army established a supply depot and a hospital at Ship Point.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Several Poquoson residents fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War including Wesley Messick, who was a crewman on the <a href="/wiki/CSS_Virginia" title="CSS Virginia">CSS Virginia</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Hampton_Roads" title="Battle of Hampton Roads">Battle of Hampton Roads</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Poquoson became an <a href="/wiki/Incorporated_town" title="Incorporated town">incorporated town</a> in 1952, as the citizens of the community wanted to keep their own high school open instead of having their children <a href="/wiki/Desegregation_busing" title="Desegregation busing">bused</a> to <a href="/wiki/York_High_School_(Virginia)" title="York High School (Virginia)">York High School</a> due to distance.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> When the town was incorporated, Poquoson's small predominantly <a href="/wiki/African_American" class="mw-redirect" title="African American">African American</a> community known as Cary's Chapel remained just outside the town limits in York County. The town became an independent city in 1975 in order to maintain this status. The change from incorporated town to independent city status also effectively protected Poquoson from potential annexation suits by the adjacent City of Hampton. </p><p>The changes to incorporated town and independent city were part of a wave of municipal changes in southeastern Virginia in the third quarter of the 20th century. Although Poquoson is one of the smaller of 8 independent cities extant in the Hampton Roads region in the 21st century, it is not unique in the area as a city having large areas of undeveloped land and protected wetlands. </p><p>Poquoson has long been informally known as "Bull Island" because for centuries farmers in the area let their cattle roam free in the salt marshes. Although only a few small farms remain and the herd of cattle that once grazed in the marshes are long gone, Poquoson residents still call themselves "Bull Islanders".<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Hampton_Roads" title="Hampton Roads">Hampton Roads</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Government_and_law">Government and law</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Poquoson,_Virginia&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Government and law"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Poquoson City Council is composed of seven members who are elected by the voters and serve four-year terms. Elections are held in even-numbered years on the first Tuesday in November. Any Poquoson resident who is at least 18 years of age, is a United States citizen and a resident of Virginia is eligible to be a candidate for election. In 2017, Poquoson residents elected a 19-year-old to the City Council. </p><p>The city is divided into three precincts with each precinct having two council representatives. Voters cast their ballots for one candidate from each precinct. One representative is elected at large and serves as City Mayor. Persons elected to City Council take office on the first day of January following the election. </p><p>The City Council is the policy making body of the city. Its responsibilities include adoption of the City budget; approval of all tax levies; adoption of ordinances; approval of amendments, supplements or repeals to ordinances and the City Code; and appointment of the City Manager, City Clerk, City Attorney, and various local boards, commissions and committees. <sup id="cite_ref-Poquoson_Government_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Poquoson_Government-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The city's school board is appointed by the City Council. </p><p>Over 30 years after Poquoson became an independent city from York County, some constitutional services such as the courts, sheriff and jail continue to be shared with neighboring York County.<sup id="cite_ref-Poquoson_Residents_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Poquoson_Residents-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Politics">Politics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Poquoson,_Virginia&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Politics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Historically, Poquoson voters have trended strongly towards <a href="/wiki/Conservatism_in_the_United_States" title="Conservatism in the United States">conservative</a> candidates at the national, state, and local levels and since the decline of the <a href="/wiki/Byrd_Organization" class="mw-redirect" title="Byrd Organization">Byrd Organization</a>, <a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republicans</a>. Poquoson is part of <a href="/wiki/Virginia%27s_1st_congressional_district" title="Virginia's 1st congressional district">Virginia's 1st congressional district</a>, represented by Republican <a href="/wiki/Rob_Wittman" title="Rob Wittman">Rob Wittman</a> but was temporarily redistricted into the <a href="/wiki/Virginia%27s_2nd_congressional_district" title="Virginia's 2nd congressional district">2nd district</a> in 2016. Rigell retired from the <a href="/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">United States House of Representatives</a> in 2016 and was succeeded by Republican <a href="/wiki/Scott_Taylor_(politician)" title="Scott Taylor (politician)">Scott Taylor</a>. Taylor was defeated in 2018 by <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democrat</a> <a href="/wiki/Elaine_Luria" title="Elaine Luria">Elaine Luria</a>. </p><p>At the state level, Poquoson is represented by <a href="/wiki/Tommy_Norment" title="Tommy Norment">Tommy Norment</a>, a Republican and current Minority Leader of the <a href="/wiki/Virginia_State_Senate" class="mw-redirect" title="Virginia State Senate">Virginia State Senate</a>, as members of District 3 of the Virginia Senate and <a href="/wiki/A.C._Cordoza" class="mw-redirect" title="A.C. Cordoza">A.C. Cordoza</a>, a Republican, as part of the 91st District of the <a href="/wiki/Virginia_House_of_Delegates" title="Virginia House of Delegates">Virginia House of Delegates</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Virginia_State_Senate_Districts_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Virginia_State_Senate_Districts-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The mayor and city council members are elected in nonpartisan elections; the current mayor, Gordon "Big G" Helsel., became mayor in 2016 after <a href="/wiki/Gordon_Helsel" title="Gordon Helsel">Gordon Helsel</a> was elected to the House of Delegates. </p> <table class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible floatright" style="font-size: 95%;"> <caption>United States presidential election results for Poquoson, Virginia<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" rowspan="2">Year </th> <th scope="col" colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> </th> <th scope="col" colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> </th> <th scope="col" colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Third_party_(U.S._politics)" title="Third party (U.S. politics)">Third party(ies)</a> </th></tr> <tr> <th>No. </th> <th scope="col">%</th> <th scope="col">No. </th> <th scope="col">%</th> <th scope="col">No. </th> <th scope="col">% </th></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_election_in_Virginia" title="2020 United States presidential election in Virginia">2020</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">5,605 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>71.34%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">2,054 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">26.14% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">198 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">2.52% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/2016_United_States_presidential_election_in_Virginia" title="2016 United States presidential election in Virginia">2016</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">5,092 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>70.95%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">1,601 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">22.31% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">484 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">6.74% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/2012_United_States_presidential_election_in_Virginia" title="2012 United States presidential election in Virginia">2012</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">5,312 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>74.75%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">1,679 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">23.63% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">115 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">1.62% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/2008_United_States_presidential_election_in_Virginia" title="2008 United States presidential election in Virginia">2008</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">5,229 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>74.01%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">1,748 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">24.74% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">88 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">1.25% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/2004_United_States_presidential_election_in_Virginia" title="2004 United States presidential election in Virginia">2004</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">5,004 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>77.34%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">1,424 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">22.01% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">42 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0.65% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/2000_United_States_presidential_election_in_Virginia" title="2000 United States presidential election in Virginia">2000</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">4,271 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>72.87%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">1,448 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">24.71% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">142 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">2.42% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/1996_United_States_presidential_election_in_Virginia" title="1996 United States presidential election in Virginia">1996</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">3,422 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>64.86%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">1,409 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">26.71% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">445 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">8.43% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/1992_United_States_presidential_election_in_Virginia" title="1992 United States presidential election in Virginia">1992</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">3,354 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>61.69%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">1,086 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">19.97% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">997 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">18.34% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/1988_United_States_presidential_election_in_Virginia" title="1988 United States presidential election in Virginia">1988</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">3,840 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>80.83%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">877 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">18.46% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">34 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0.72% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/1984_United_States_presidential_election_in_Virginia" title="1984 United States presidential election in Virginia">1984</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">3,667 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>84.73%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">647 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">14.95% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">14 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0.32% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/1980_United_States_presidential_election_in_Virginia" title="1980 United States presidential election in Virginia">1980</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">2,338 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>68.78%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">877 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">25.80% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">184 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">5.41% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/1976_United_States_presidential_election_in_Virginia" title="1976 United States presidential election in Virginia">1976</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">1,461 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>55.34%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">1,140 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">43.18% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">39 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">1.48% </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Media">Media</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Poquoson,_Virginia&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Media"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Poquoson's daily newspaper is the <i><a href="/wiki/Daily_Press_(Virginia)" title="Daily Press (Virginia)">Daily Press</a></i>. Other papers include the <i><a href="/wiki/New_Journal_and_Guide" title="New Journal and Guide">New Journal and Guide</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Virginian-Pilot" title="The Virginian-Pilot">The Virginian-Pilot</a></i>, and <i><a href="/wiki/Inside_Business_(newspaper)" title="Inside Business (newspaper)">Inside Business</a></i>. </p><p>Poquoson has a weekly paper, The Yorktown Crier / The Poquoson Post.<sup id="cite_ref-Yorktown_Crier_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Yorktown_Crier-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Hampton Roads Magazine serves as a bi-monthly regional magazine for Poquoson and the <a href="/wiki/Hampton_Roads" title="Hampton Roads">Hampton Roads</a> area.<sup id="cite_ref-Hampton_Roads_Magazine_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hampton_Roads_Magazine-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Hampton Roads Times</i> serves as an online magazine for all the <a href="/wiki/Hampton_Roads" title="Hampton Roads">Hampton Roads</a> cities and counties.<sup id="cite_ref-Hampton_Roads_Times_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hampton_Roads_Times-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Poquoson is served by a variety of radio stations on the AM and FM dials, with towers located around the <a href="/wiki/Hampton_Roads" title="Hampton Roads">Hampton Roads</a> area.<sup id="cite_ref-Hampton_Roads_Radio_Links_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hampton_Roads_Radio_Links-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Poquoson is also served by several television stations. The Norfolk-Portsmouth-Newport News <a href="/wiki/Designated_market_area" class="mw-redirect" title="Designated market area">designated market area</a> (DMA), of which Poquoson is included, is the 44th largest in the U.S. with 709,730 homes (0.62% of the total U.S.).<sup id="cite_ref-nielsen_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nielsen-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The major network television affiliates are <a href="/wiki/WTKR-TV" class="mw-redirect" title="WTKR-TV">WTKR-TV</a> 3 (<a href="/wiki/Columbia_Broadcasting_Service" class="mw-redirect" title="Columbia Broadcasting Service">CBS</a>), <a href="/wiki/WAVY" class="mw-redirect" title="WAVY">WAVY</a> 10 (<a href="/wiki/NBC" title="NBC">NBC</a>), <a href="/wiki/WVEC-TV" class="mw-redirect" title="WVEC-TV">WVEC-TV</a> 13 (<a href="/wiki/American_Broadcasting_Company" title="American Broadcasting Company">ABC</a>), <a href="/wiki/WGNT" title="WGNT">WGNT</a> 27 (<a href="/wiki/The_CW_Television_Network" class="mw-redirect" title="The CW Television Network">CW</a>), <a href="/wiki/WTVZ" class="mw-redirect" title="WTVZ">WTVZ</a> 33 (<a href="/wiki/MyNetworkTV" title="MyNetworkTV">MyNetworkTV</a>), <a href="/wiki/WVBT" title="WVBT">WVBT</a> 43 (<a href="/wiki/Fox_Broadcasting_Company" title="Fox Broadcasting Company">Fox</a>), and <a href="/wiki/WPXV" class="mw-redirect" title="WPXV">WPXV</a> 49 (<a href="/wiki/ION_Television" class="mw-redirect" title="ION Television">ION Television</a>). The <a href="/wiki/Public_Broadcasting_Service" class="mw-redirect" title="Public Broadcasting Service">Public Broadcasting Service</a> station is <a href="/wiki/WHRO-TV" title="WHRO-TV">WHRO-TV</a> 15. Newport News residents also can receive independent stations, such as <a href="/wiki/WSKY-TV" title="WSKY-TV">WSKY</a> broadcasting on channel 4 from the Outer Banks of North Carolina and <a href="/wiki/WGBS-LD" title="WGBS-LD">WGBS-LD</a> broadcasting on channel 11 from <a href="/wiki/Hampton,_Virginia" title="Hampton, Virginia">Hampton</a>. Poquoson is served by <a href="/wiki/Cox_Cable" class="mw-redirect" title="Cox Cable">Cox Cable</a> which provides <a href="/wiki/LNC_5" class="mw-redirect" title="LNC 5">LNC 5</a>, a local 24-hour <a href="/wiki/United_States_cable_news" title="United States cable news">cable news</a> television network. <a href="/wiki/DirecTV" title="DirecTV">DirecTV</a>, <a href="/wiki/Verizon_FiOS" class="mw-redirect" title="Verizon FiOS">Verizon FiOS</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dish_Network" title="Dish Network">Dish Network</a> are also popular as an alternative to <a href="/wiki/Cable_television" title="Cable television">cable television</a> in Poquoson. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geography">Geography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Poquoson,_Virginia&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Geography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Poquoson is located at <span class="geo-inline"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Poquoson,_Virginia&params=37_7_59_N_76_22_25_W_type:city"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">37°7′59″N</span> <span class="longitude">76°22′25″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">37.13306°N 76.37361°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">37.13306; -76.37361</span></span></span></a></span></span> (37.133153, -76.373881). </p><p>According to the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Census_Bureau" title="United States Census Bureau">United States Census Bureau</a>, the city has a total area of 78 square miles (200 km<sup>2</sup>), of which 15 square miles (39 km<sup>2</sup>) is land and 63 square miles (160 km<sup>2</sup>) (80.4%) is water.<sup id="cite_ref-GR1_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GR1-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The city is a <a href="/wiki/Peninsula" title="Peninsula">peninsula</a> containing twenty square miles and is located between the <a href="/wiki/Poquoson_River" title="Poquoson River">Poquoson River</a> on the north, <a href="/wiki/Back_River_(Virginia)" title="Back River (Virginia)">Back River</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Wythe_Creek&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wythe Creek (page does not exist)">Wythe Creek</a> (the Old Poquoson River) on the south, the <a href="/wiki/Chesapeake_Bay" title="Chesapeake Bay">Chesapeake Bay</a> on the east, and York County on the west. The city also shares a border with the City of Hampton and a water boundary across Chesapeake Bay with <a href="/wiki/Northampton_County,_Virginia" title="Northampton County, Virginia">Northampton County</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Climate">Climate</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Poquoson,_Virginia&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Climate"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Poquoson's mild four season climate means outdoor activities can be enjoyed year round. The weather in Poquoson is temperate and seasonal. Summers are hot and humid with cool evenings. The mean annual temperature is 60 °F (16 °C), with an average annual snowfall of 6 inches (15 cm) and an average annual rainfall of 47 inches (1,200 mm). No measurable <a href="/wiki/Snow" title="Snow">snow</a> fell in 1999. The wettest seasons are the spring and summer, although rainfall is fairly constant all year round. The highest recorded temperature was 105 °F (41 °C) in 1980. The lowest recorded temperature was −3 °F (−19 °C) on <a href="/wiki/January_1985_Arctic_outbreak" class="mw-redirect" title="January 1985 Arctic outbreak">January 21, 1985</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-NWS_Wakefield,_VA_(AKQ)_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NWS_Wakefield,_VA_(AKQ)-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Additionally, the geographic location of the city, with respect to the principal storm tracks, is generally favorable, as it is south of the usual path of storms originating in the higher latitudes, and north of the usual tracks of hurricanes and other major tropical storms.<sup id="cite_ref-Virginia_Hurricane_Climatology_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Virginia_Hurricane_Climatology-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, when in the path of a storm the City of Poquoson is subject to severe flooding due to its very low elevation above sea level. Poquoson was significantly impacted by the most destructive storm of 2003, <a href="/wiki/Hurricane_Isabel" title="Hurricane Isabel">Hurricane Isabel</a>, which caused the worst flooding the Hampton Roads area had seen since the <a href="/wiki/1933_Chesapeake%E2%80%93Potomac_hurricane" title="1933 Chesapeake–Potomac hurricane">1933 Chesapeake–Potomac hurricane</a> 70 years earlier. During Hurricane Isabel, most of the city was under several feet of water due to the <a href="/wiki/Storm_surge" title="Storm surge">storm surge</a>. Six years later the <a href="/wiki/November_2009_Mid-Atlantic_nor%27easter" class="mw-redirect" title="November 2009 Mid-Atlantic nor'easter">November 2009 Mid-Atlantic nor'easter</a> again flooded much of the city. A mandatory evacuation order was issued during <a href="/wiki/Hurricane_Irene" title="Hurricane Irene">Hurricane Irene</a> in 2011 which also caused significant flooding in Poquoson. 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href="/wiki/Template:Norfolk,_Virginia_weatherbox" title="Template:Norfolk, Virginia weatherbox"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Norfolk,_Virginia_weatherbox" title="Template talk:Norfolk, Virginia weatherbox"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Norfolk,_Virginia_weatherbox" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Norfolk, Virginia weatherbox"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div class="navbar-ct-mini">Climate data for <a href="/wiki/Norfolk_International_Airport" title="Norfolk International Airport">Norfolk International Airport</a>, Virginia (1991–2020 normals,<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> extremes 1874–present<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>)</div> </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Month </th> <th scope="col">Jan </th> <th scope="col">Feb </th> <th scope="col">Mar </th> <th scope="col">Apr </th> <th scope="col">May </th> <th scope="col">Jun </th> <th scope="col">Jul </th> <th scope="col">Aug </th> <th scope="col">Sep </th> <th scope="col">Oct </th> <th scope="col">Nov </th> <th scope="col">Dec </th> <th scope="col" style="border-left-width:medium">Year </th></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Record high °F (°C) </th> <td style="background: #FF5600; color:#000000;" class="notheme">84<br />(29) </td> <td style="background: #FF5D00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">82<br />(28) </td> <td style="background: #FF3A00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">92<br />(33) </td> <td style="background: #FF2500; color:#000000;" class="notheme">97<br />(36) </td> <td style="background: #FF1800; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">100<br />(38) </td> <td style="background: #FF1100; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">102<br />(39) </td> <td style="background: #FF0300; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">105<br />(41) </td> <td style="background: #FF0300; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">105<br />(41) </td> <td style="background: #FF1800; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">100<br />(38) </td> <td style="background: #FF2C00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">95<br />(35) </td> <td style="background: #FF4F00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">86<br />(30) </td> <td style="background: #FF5D00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">82<br />(28) </td> <td style="background: #FF0300; color:#FFFFFF; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">105<br />(41) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean maximum °F (°C) </th> <td style="background: #FF8308; color:#000000;" class="notheme">72.4<br />(22.4) </td> <td style="background: #FF7C00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">74.3<br />(23.5) </td> <td style="background: #FF6300; color:#000000;" class="notheme">80.7<br />(27.1) </td> <td style="background: #FF4B00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">86.9<br />(30.5) </td> <td style="background: #FF3900; color:#000000;" class="notheme">91.5<br />(33.1) </td> <td style="background: #FF2A00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">95.7<br />(35.4) </td> <td style="background: #FF1F00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">98.4<br />(36.9) </td> <td style="background: #FF2B00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">95.3<br />(35.2) </td> <td style="background: #FF3800; color:#000000;" class="notheme">92.0<br />(33.3) </td> <td style="background: #FF4F00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">86.0<br />(30.0) </td> <td style="background: #FF6A00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">78.9<br />(26.1) </td> <td style="background: #FF7F00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">73.4<br />(23.0) </td> <td style="background: #FF1C00; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">99.3<br />(37.4) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean daily maximum °F (°C) </th> <td style="background: #FFD6AD; color:#000000;" class="notheme">50.7<br />(10.4) </td> <td style="background: #FFCC99; color:#000000;" class="notheme">53.4<br />(11.9) </td> <td style="background: #FFB266; color:#000000;" class="notheme">60.1<br />(15.6) </td> <td style="background: #FF8C1A; color:#000000;" class="notheme">70.0<br />(21.1) </td> <td style="background: #FF7000; color:#000000;" class="notheme">77.4<br />(25.2) </td> <td style="background: #FF5200; color:#000000;" class="notheme">85.2<br />(29.6) </td> <td style="background: #FF4200; color:#000000;" class="notheme">89.4<br />(31.9) </td> <td style="background: #FF4B00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">86.9<br />(30.5) </td> <td style="background: #FF6100; color:#000000;" class="notheme">81.4<br />(27.4) </td> <td style="background: #FF8308; color:#000000;" class="notheme">72.3<br />(22.4) </td> <td style="background: #FFAA56; color:#000000;" class="notheme">62.1<br />(16.7) </td> <td style="background: #FFC78F; color:#000000;" class="notheme">54.7<br />(12.6) </td> <td style="background: #FF8B17; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">70.3<br />(21.3) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Daily mean °F (°C) </th> <td style="background: #FFF6EE; color:#000000;" class="notheme">42.2<br />(5.7) </td> <td style="background: #FFEFDF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">44.2<br />(6.8) </td> <td style="background: #FFD6AD; color:#000000;" class="notheme">50.7<br />(10.4) </td> <td style="background: #FFB266; color:#000000;" class="notheme">60.1<br />(15.6) </td> <td style="background: #FF9226; color:#000000;" class="notheme">68.3<br />(20.2) </td> <td style="background: #FF7300; color:#000000;" class="notheme">76.7<br />(24.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF6100; color:#000000;" class="notheme">81.1<br />(27.3) </td> <td style="background: #FF6900; color:#000000;" class="notheme">79.2<br />(26.2) </td> <td style="background: #FF7D00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">74.0<br />(23.3) </td> <td style="background: #FFA44A; color:#000000;" class="notheme">63.7<br />(17.6) </td> <td style="background: #FFCC9A; color:#000000;" class="notheme">53.3<br />(11.8) </td> <td style="background: #FFE8D1; color:#000000;" class="notheme">46.1<br />(7.8) </td> <td style="background: #FFAC5A; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">61.6<br />(16.4) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean daily minimum °F (°C) </th> <td style="background: #EBEBFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">33.6<br />(0.9) </td> <td style="background: #EFEFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">35.1<br />(1.7) </td> <td style="background: #FFFAF5; color:#000000;" class="notheme">41.3<br />(5.2) </td> <td style="background: #FFD8B1; color:#000000;" class="notheme">50.1<br />(10.1) </td> <td style="background: #FFB56C; color:#000000;" class="notheme">59.1<br />(15.1) </td> <td style="background: #FF9327; color:#000000;" class="notheme">68.1<br />(20.1) </td> <td style="background: #FF8104; color:#000000;" class="notheme">72.8<br />(22.7) </td> <td style="background: #FF860D; color:#000000;" class="notheme">71.6<br />(22.0) </td> <td style="background: #FF9934; color:#000000;" class="notheme">66.6<br />(19.2) </td> <td style="background: #FFC58C; color:#000000;" class="notheme">55.1<br />(12.8) </td> <td style="background: #FFEEDD; color:#000000;" class="notheme">44.4<br />(6.9) </td> <td style="background: #F7F7FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">37.6<br />(3.1) </td> <td style="background: #FFCE9D; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">52.9<br />(11.6) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean minimum °F (°C) </th> <td style="background: #BEBEFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">18.7<br />(−7.4) </td> <td style="background: #C7C7FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">21.6<br />(−5.8) </td> <td style="background: #D8D8FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">27.4<br />(−2.6) </td> <td style="background: #F5F5FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">37.0<br />(2.8) </td> <td style="background: #FFE4CA; color:#000000;" class="notheme">46.9<br />(8.3) </td> <td style="background: #FFC285; color:#000000;" class="notheme">56.0<br />(13.3) </td> <td style="background: #FFA042; color:#000000;" class="notheme">64.7<br />(18.2) </td> <td style="background: #FFA44A; color:#000000;" class="notheme">63.7<br />(17.6) </td> <td style="background: #FFC388; color:#000000;" class="notheme">55.5<br />(13.1) </td> <td style="background: #FFFDFC; color:#000000;" class="notheme">40.4<br />(4.7) </td> <td style="background: #E0E0FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">29.8<br />(−1.2) </td> <td style="background: #CECEFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">23.9<br />(−4.5) </td> <td style="background: #B9B9FF; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">16.8<br />(−8.4) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Record low °F (°C) </th> <td style="background: #8080FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−3<br />(−19) </td> <td style="background: #8A8AFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">2<br />(−17) </td> <td style="background: #B0B0FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">14<br />(−10) </td> <td style="background: #CBCBFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">23<br />(−5) </td> <td style="background: #F1F1FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">36<br />(2) </td> <td style="background: #FFEDDC; color:#000000;" class="notheme">45<br />(7) </td> <td style="background: #FFCB97; color:#000000;" class="notheme">54<br />(12) </td> <td style="background: #FFDFC0; color:#000000;" class="notheme">49<br />(9) </td> <td style="background: #FCFCFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">40<br />(4) </td> <td style="background: #D6D6FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">27<br />(−3) </td> <td style="background: #BBBBFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">17<br />(−8) </td> <td style="background: #9595FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">5<br />(−15) </td> <td style="background: #8080FF; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">−3<br />(−19) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average <a href="/wiki/Precipitation" title="Precipitation">precipitation</a> inches (mm) </th> <td style="background: #7DFF7D; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.41<br />(87) </td> <td style="background: #85FF85; color:#000000;" class="notheme">2.90<br />(74) </td> <td style="background: #72FF72; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.69<br />(94) </td> <td style="background: #7AFF7A; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.37<br />(86) </td> <td style="background: #6FFF6F; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.78<br />(96) </td> <td style="background: #50FF50; color:#000000;" class="notheme">4.43<br />(113) </td> <td style="background: #19FF19; color:#000000;" class="notheme">6.08<br />(154) </td> <td style="background: #20FF20; color:#000000;" class="notheme">5.88<br />(149) </td> <td style="background: #2CFF2C; color:#000000;" class="notheme">5.40<br />(137) </td> <td style="background: #6CFF6C; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.86<br />(98) </td> <td style="background: #85FF85; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.10<br />(79) </td> <td style="background: #83FF83; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.28<br />(83) </td> <td style="background: #61FF61; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">49.18<br />(1,249) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average snowfall inches (cm) </th> <td style="background: #8686FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.2<br />(8.1) </td> <td style="background: #C0C0FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">1.5<br />(3.8) </td> <td style="background: #F0F0FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.4<br />(1.0) </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.0<br />(0.0) </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.0<br />(0.0) </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.0<br />(0.0) </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.0<br />(0.0) </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.0<br />(0.0) </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.0<br />(0.0) </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.0<br />(0.0) </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.0<br />(0.0) </td> <td style="background: #D5D5FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">1.1<br />(2.8) </td> <td style="background: #EAEAFF; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">6.2<br />(16) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average precipitation days <span style="font-size:90%;" class="nowrap">(≥ 0.01 in)</span> </th> <td style="background: #7A7AFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">10.7 </td> <td style="background: #8282FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">9.2 </td> <td style="background: #7878FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">10.9 </td> <td style="background: #7F7FFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">10.0 </td> <td style="background: #7474FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">11.2 </td> <td style="background: #8383FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">9.7 </td> <td style="background: #7C7CFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">10.6 </td> <td style="background: #8181FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">10.2 </td> <td style="background: #8787FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">9.4 </td> <td style="background: #9F9FFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">7.7 </td> <td style="background: #8D8DFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">8.9 </td> <td style="background: #8484FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">9.9 </td> <td style="background: #8383FF; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">118.4 </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average snowy days <span style="font-size:90%;" class="nowrap">(≥ 0.1 in)</span> </th> <td style="background: #EAEAFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">1.7 </td> <td style="background: #EDEDFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">1.3 </td> <td style="background: #F8F8FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.5 </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.0 </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.0 </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.0 </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.0 </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.0 </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.0 </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.0 </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.0 </td> <td style="background: #F8F8FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.5 </td> <td style="background: #FAFAFF; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">4.0 </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average <a href="/wiki/Relative_humidity" class="mw-redirect" title="Relative humidity">relative humidity</a> (%) </th> <td style="background: #0101FF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">66.3 </td> <td style="background: #0404FF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">65.6 </td> <td style="background: #0707FF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">64.6 </td> <td style="background: #0E0EFF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">62.8 </td> <td style="background: #0000F6; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">68.8 </td> <td style="background: #0000EF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">70.6 </td> <td style="background: #0000E5; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">73.3 </td> <td style="background: #0000DE; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">75.2 </td> <td style="background: #0000E1; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">74.4 </td> <td style="background: #0000EA; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">72.1 </td> <td style="background: #0000F7; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">68.5 </td> <td style="background: #0000FD; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">67.0 </td> <td style="background: #0000F5; color:#FFFFFF; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">69.1 </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average <a href="/wiki/Dew_point" title="Dew point">dew point</a> °F (°C) </th> <td style="background: #DADAFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">27.9<br />(−2.3) </td> <td style="background: #DDDDFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">28.9<br />(−1.7) </td> <td style="background: #F2F2FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">35.8<br />(2.1) </td> <td style="background: #FFF3E7; color:#000000;" class="notheme">43.2<br />(6.2) </td> <td style="background: #FFC790; color:#000000;" class="notheme">54.5<br />(12.5) </td> <td style="background: #FFA64E; color:#000000;" class="notheme">63.1<br />(17.3) </td> <td style="background: #FF9327; color:#000000;" class="notheme">68.2<br />(20.1) </td> <td style="background: #FF9429; color:#000000;" class="notheme">68.0<br />(20.0) </td> <td style="background: #FFA954; color:#000000;" class="notheme">62.4<br />(16.9) </td> <td style="background: #FFD4A9; color:#000000;" class="notheme">51.3<br />(10.7) </td> <td style="background: #FFF8F2; color:#000000;" class="notheme">41.7<br />(5.4) </td> <td style="background: #E8E8FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">32.7<br />(0.4) </td> <td style="background: #FFDFC0; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">48.1<br />(9.0) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean monthly <a href="/wiki/Sunshine_duration" title="Sunshine duration">sunshine hours</a> </th> <td style="background: #CDCD00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">171.5 </td> <td style="background: #D5D500; color:#000000;" class="notheme">175.2 </td> <td style="background: #DEDE00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">229.3 </td> <td style="background: #E5E500; color:#000000;" class="notheme">252.8 </td> <td style="background: #E8E800; color:#000000;" class="notheme">271.7 </td> <td style="background: #ECEC05; color:#000000;" class="notheme">280.1 </td> <td style="background: #E9E900; color:#000000;" class="notheme">278.3 </td> <td style="background: #E5E500; color:#000000;" class="notheme">260.4 </td> <td style="background: #E0E000; color:#000000;" class="notheme">231.4 </td> <td style="background: #D9D900; color:#000000;" class="notheme">208.3 </td> <td style="background: #D2D200; color:#000000;" class="notheme">175.7 </td> <td style="background: #C8C800; color:#000000;" class="notheme">160.4 </td> <td style="background: #DEDE00; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">2,695.1 </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Percent <a href="/wiki/Sunshine_duration" title="Sunshine duration">possible sunshine</a> </th> <td style="background: #FFFF4B; color:#000000;" class="notheme">56 </td> <td style="background: #FFFF53; color:#000000;" class="notheme">58 </td> <td style="background: #FFFF63; color:#000000;" class="notheme">62 </td> <td style="background: #FFFF6C; color:#000000;" class="notheme">64 </td> <td style="background: #FFFF63; color:#000000;" class="notheme">62 </td> <td style="background: #FFFF6C; color:#000000;" class="notheme">64 </td> <td style="background: #FFFF63; color:#000000;" class="notheme">62 </td> <td style="background: #FFFF63; color:#000000;" class="notheme">62 </td> <td style="background: #FFFF63; color:#000000;" class="notheme">62 </td> <td style="background: #FFFF5B; color:#000000;" class="notheme">60 </td> <td style="background: #FFFF4F; color:#000000;" class="notheme">57 </td> <td style="background: #FFFF3F; color:#000000;" class="notheme">53 </td> <td style="background: #FFFF5F; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">61 </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average <a href="/wiki/Ultraviolet_index" title="Ultraviolet index">ultraviolet index</a> </th> <td style="background: #3EA72D; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">2 </td> <td style="background: #FFF300; color:#000000;" class="notheme">4 </td> <td style="background: #FFF300; color:#000000;" class="notheme">5 </td> <td style="background: #F18B00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">7 </td> <td style="background: #E53210; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">8 </td> <td style="background: #E53210; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">10 </td> <td style="background: #E53210; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">9 </td> <td style="background: #E53210; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">9 </td> <td style="background: #F18B00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">7 </td> <td style="background: #FFF300; color:#000000;" class="notheme">5 </td> <td style="background: #FFF300; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3 </td> <td style="background: #3EA72D; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">2 </td> <td style="background: #F18B00; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">6 </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="14" style="text-align:center;font-size:95%;">Source 1: <a href="/wiki/NOAA" class="mw-redirect" title="NOAA">NOAA</a> (relative humidity and sun 1961–1990)<sup id="cite_ref-NWS_Wakefield,_VA_(AKQ)_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NWS_Wakefield,_VA_(AKQ)-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NCDC_TXT_KORF_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NCDC_TXT_KORF-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-WMO_1961–90_KORF_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WMO_1961–90_KORF-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="14" style="text-align:center;font-size:95%;">Source 2: Weather Atlas (UV)<sup id="cite_ref-Weather_Atlas_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Weather_Atlas-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <div> <table class="wikitable mw-collapsible" style="width:auto; text-align:center; line-height:1.2em;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="14">Climate data for Poquoson, Virginia (1980–2010) </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Month </th> <th scope="col">Jan </th> <th scope="col">Feb </th> <th scope="col">Mar </th> <th scope="col">Apr </th> <th scope="col">May </th> <th scope="col">Jun </th> <th scope="col">Jul </th> <th scope="col">Aug </th> <th scope="col">Sep </th> <th scope="col">Oct </th> <th scope="col">Nov </th> <th scope="col">Dec </th> <th scope="col" style="border-left-width:medium">Year </th></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean daily maximum °F (°C) </th> <td style="background: #FFE2C5; color:#000000;" class="notheme">47.7<br />(8.7) </td> <td style="background: #FFD4AA; color:#000000;" class="notheme">51.1<br />(10.6) </td> <td style="background: #FFB66E; color:#000000;" class="notheme">59.0<br />(15.0) </td> <td style="background: #FF9123; color:#000000;" class="notheme">68.8<br />(20.4) </td> <td style="background: #FF7300; color:#000000;" class="notheme">76.5<br />(24.7) </td> <td style="background: #FF5400; color:#000000;" class="notheme">84.6<br />(29.2) </td> <td style="background: #FF4500; color:#000000;" class="notheme">88.6<br />(31.4) </td> <td style="background: #FF4D00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">86.3<br />(30.2) </td> <td style="background: #FF6300; color:#000000;" class="notheme">80.7<br />(27.1) </td> <td style="background: #FF8913; color:#000000;" class="notheme">70.8<br />(21.6) </td> <td style="background: #FFAE5D; color:#000000;" class="notheme">61.2<br />(16.2) </td> <td style="background: #FFD3A8; color:#000000;" class="notheme">51.5<br />(10.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF9022; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">68.9<br />(20.5) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean daily minimum °F (°C) </th> <td style="background: #DDDDFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">28.9<br />(−1.7) </td> <td style="background: #E4E4FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">31.1<br />(−0.5) </td> <td style="background: #F5F5FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">37.0<br />(2.8) </td> <td style="background: #FFE8D2; color:#000000;" class="notheme">45.8<br />(7.7) </td> <td style="background: #FFC58C; color:#000000;" class="notheme">55.0<br />(12.8) </td> <td style="background: #FFA143; color:#000000;" class="notheme">64.5<br />(18.1) </td> <td style="background: #FF9021; color:#000000;" class="notheme">69.1<br />(20.6) </td> <td style="background: #FF962D; color:#000000;" class="notheme">67.5<br />(19.7) </td> <td style="background: #FFAE5D; color:#000000;" class="notheme">61.1<br />(16.2) </td> <td style="background: #FFD9B4; color:#000000;" class="notheme">49.8<br />(9.9) </td> <td style="background: #FFFBF8; color:#000000;" class="notheme">41.0<br />(5.0) </td> <td style="background: #E8E8FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">32.5<br />(0.3) </td> <td style="background: #FFDEBE; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">48.6<br />(9.2) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average <a href="/wiki/Precipitation" title="Precipitation">precipitation</a> inches (mm) </th> <td style="background: #7777FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.6<br />(91) </td> <td style="background: #7272FF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">3.4<br />(86) </td> <td style="background: #5B5BFF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">4.4<br />(110) </td> <td style="background: #7D7DFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.3<br />(84) </td> <td style="background: #6B6BFF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">3.9<br />(99) </td> <td style="background: #7575FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.5<br />(89) </td> <td style="background: #4C4CFF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">4.6<br />(120) </td> <td style="background: #4C4CFF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">4.7<br />(120) </td> <td style="background: #5555FF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">4.2<br />(110) </td> <td style="background: #7E7EFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.4<br />(86) </td> <td style="background: #7D7DFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.3<br />(84) </td> <td style="background: #7E7EFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.4<br />(86) </td> <td style="background: #6B6BFF; color:#FFFFFF; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">45.7<br />(1,165) </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="14" style="text-align:center;font-size:95%;">Source: USA.com<sup id="cite_ref-USA_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-USA-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="National_protected_area">National protected area</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Poquoson,_Virginia&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: National protected area"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Plum_Tree_Island_National_Wildlife_Refuge" title="Plum Tree Island National Wildlife Refuge">Plum Tree Island National Wildlife Refuge</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Infrastructure">Infrastructure</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Poquoson,_Virginia&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Infrastructure"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Poquoson is served by two airports. <a href="/wiki/Newport_News/Williamsburg_International_Airport" title="Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport">Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport</a>, located in Newport News, and <a href="/wiki/Norfolk_International_Airport" title="Norfolk International Airport">Norfolk International Airport</a>, in Norfolk, both cater to passengers from Hampton Roads. The primary airport for the Virginia Peninsula is the Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Norfolk_International_Airport" title="Norfolk International Airport">Norfolk International Airport</a> (<a href="/wiki/IATA_airport_code" title="IATA airport code">IATA</a>: <b>ORF</b>, <a href="/wiki/ICAO_airport_code" title="ICAO airport code">ICAO</a>: <b>KORF</b>, <a href="/wiki/Federal_Aviation_Administration" title="Federal Aviation Administration">FAA</a> <a href="/wiki/Location_identifier" title="Location identifier">LID</a>: <b>ORF</b>), serves the region. The airport is located near Chesapeake Bay, along the city limits of <a href="/wiki/Norfolk,_Virginia" title="Norfolk, Virginia">Norfolk</a> and <a href="/wiki/Virginia_Beach,_Virginia" title="Virginia Beach, Virginia">Virginia Beach</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ORF_History_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ORF_History-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Seven airlines provide nonstop services to twenty five destinations. ORF had 3,703,664 passengers take off or land at its facility and 68,778,934 pounds of cargo were processed through its facilities.<sup id="cite_ref-ORF_Statistics_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ORF_Statistics-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Williamsburg-Jamestown Airport provides general aviation services and is located in Williamsburg.<sup id="cite_ref-Williamsburg-Jamestown_Airport_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Williamsburg-Jamestown_Airport-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Amtrak" title="Amtrak">Amtrak</a> serves nearby <a href="/wiki/Newport_News,_Virginia" title="Newport News, Virginia">Newport News, Virginia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Williamsburg,_Virginia" title="Williamsburg, Virginia">Williamsburg, Virginia</a> with three trains a day. The line runs west along the <a href="/wiki/Virginia_Peninsula" title="Virginia Peninsula">Virginia Peninsula</a> to <a href="/wiki/Richmond,_Virginia" title="Richmond, Virginia">Richmond</a> and points beyond. Connecting buses are available to Norfolk and Virginia Beach. A high-speed rail connection at Richmond to both the <a href="/wiki/Northeast_Corridor" title="Northeast Corridor">Northeast Corridor</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Southeast_High_Speed_Rail_Corridor" title="Southeast High Speed Rail Corridor">Southeast High Speed Rail Corridor</a> are also under study.<sup id="cite_ref-SEHSR_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SEHSR-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Poquoson is served by two state highways: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Virginia_State_Route_171" title="Virginia State Route 171">Route 171</a>, also known as Victory Boulevard entering Poquoson from York County before becoming Little Florida Road, then Poquoson Avenue, and finally Messick Road.<sup id="cite_ref-traffic_counts_Warwick_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-traffic_counts_Warwick-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-traffic_counts_York_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-traffic_counts_York-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Virginia_State_Route_172" title="Virginia State Route 172">Route 172</a>, also known as Wythe Creek Road entering Poquoson from Hampton before terminating at Yorktown Road and Hunt's Neck Road.<sup id="cite_ref-traffic_counts_York_32-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-traffic_counts_York-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-traffic_counts_Elizabeth_City_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-traffic_counts_Elizabeth_City-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>The Newport News Waterworks was begun as a project of <a href="/wiki/Collis_P._Huntington" class="mw-redirect" title="Collis P. Huntington">Collis P. Huntington</a> as part of the development of the lower peninsula with the <a href="/wiki/Chesapeake_and_Ohio_Railway" title="Chesapeake and Ohio Railway">Chesapeake and Ohio Railway</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Coal_pier" title="Coal pier">coal piers</a> on the harbor of <a href="/wiki/Hampton_Roads" title="Hampton Roads">Hampton Roads</a>, and massive <a href="/wiki/Newport_News_Shipbuilding" title="Newport News Shipbuilding">shipyard</a> which were the major sources of industrial growth which helped found Newport News as a new independent city in 1896. It includes reservoirs at <a href="/wiki/Skiffe%27s_Creek" title="Skiffe's Creek">Skiffe's Creek</a> and another near <a href="/wiki/Walker%27s_Dam" class="mw-redirect" title="Walker's Dam">Walker's Dam</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Chickahominy_River" title="Chickahominy River">Chickahominy River</a>. A regional water provider, in modern times it is owned and operated by the City of Newport News, and serves over 400,000 people in the cities of Hampton, Newport News, Poquoson, and portions of York County and James City County.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The City provides wastewater services for residents and transports wastewater to the regional Hampton Roads Sanitation District treatment plants.<sup id="cite_ref-HRSD_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HRSD-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Poquoson has access to four area hospitals, served by Riverside Medical Center and Bon Secours Mary Immaculate Hospital in Newport News and the Sentara Careplex and the V.A. Medical Center in Hampton.<sup id="cite_ref-Hospital_Listings_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hospital_Listings-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Demographics">Demographics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Poquoson,_Virginia&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Demographics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1224496135">.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop{border-spacing:1px;border:1px solid #a2a9b1;background-color:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa);padding:0.3em;font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop caption{background-color:lavender;color:black;padding-right:0.2em;padding-left:0.2em;font-size:110%;font-weight:bold;border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-bottom:none}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop th[scope=col]{border-bottom:1px solid black}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop td:nth-child(2){text-align:right;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop td.us-census-pop-estimate{padding-left:0}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop td:nth-child(3){padding-left:0}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop td:nth-child(4){padding-left:0.5em;text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop-footnote{border-top:1px solid black;font-size:85%;text-align:center}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop-right{float:right;clear:right;margin:0 0 1em 1em}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop-left{float:left;clear:left;margin:0 1em 1em 0}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop-center{float:none;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop-none{float:none;margin:0 1em 1em 0}}</style> <table class="us-census-pop us-census-pop-right"> <caption>Historical population</caption> <tbody><tr><th scope="col">Census</th><th scope="col"><abbr title="Population">Pop.</abbr></th><th scope="col"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1152813436">.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);clip-path:polygon(0px 0px,0px 0px,0px 0px);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px;white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="sr-only">Note</span></th><th scope="col"><abbr title="Percent change">%±</abbr></th></tr> <tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1960_United_States_census" title="1960 United States census">1960</a></th><td>4,278</td><td></td><td>—</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1970_United_States_census" title="1970 United States census">1970</a></th><td>5,441</td><td></td><td>27.2%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1980_United_States_census" title="1980 United States census">1980</a></th><td>8,726</td><td></td><td>60.4%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1990_United_States_census" title="1990 United States census">1990</a></th><td>11,005</td><td></td><td>26.1%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/2000_United_States_census" title="2000 United States census">2000</a></th><td>11,566</td><td></td><td>5.1%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/2010_United_States_census" title="2010 United States census">2010</a></th><td>12,150</td><td></td><td>5.0%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/2020_United_States_census" title="2020 United States census">2020</a></th><td>12,460</td><td></td><td>2.6%</td></tr><tr><td colspan="4" class="us-census-pop-footnote" style="text-align: center">U.S. Decennial Census<sup id="cite_ref-DecennialCensus_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DecennialCensus-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br />1790-1960<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 1900-1990<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br />1990-2000<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 2010-2020<sup id="cite_ref-2020CensusP2_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2020CensusP2-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2020_census">2020 census</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Poquoson,_Virginia&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: 2020 census"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <caption><b>Poquoson city, Virginia - Demographic Profile</b><br /> (<i>NH = Non-Hispanic</i>) </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Race / Ethnicity </th> <th>Pop 2010<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <th>Pop 2020<sup id="cite_ref-2020CensusP2_41-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2020CensusP2-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <th>% 2010 </th> <th>% 2020 </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Non-Hispanic_or_Latino_whites" class="mw-redirect" title="Non-Hispanic or Latino whites">White</a> alone (NH) </td> <td>11,398 </td> <td>10,937 </td> <td>93.81% </td> <td>87.78% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Non-Hispanic_or_Latino_African_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="Non-Hispanic or Latino African Americans">Black or African American</a> alone (NH) </td> <td>78 </td> <td>107 </td> <td>0.64% </td> <td>0.86% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States" title="Native Americans in the United States">Native American</a> or <a href="/wiki/Alaska_Native" class="mw-redirect" title="Alaska Native">Alaska Native</a> alone (NH) </td> <td>34 </td> <td>33 </td> <td>0.28% </td> <td>0.26% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Asian_Americans" title="Asian Americans">Asian</a> alone (NH) </td> <td>259 </td> <td>253 </td> <td>2.13% </td> <td>2.03% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Pacific_Islander_Americans" title="Pacific Islander Americans">Pacific Islander</a> alone (NH) </td> <td>3 </td> <td>2 </td> <td>0.02% </td> <td>0.02% </td></tr> <tr> <td>Some Other Race alone (NH) </td> <td>6 </td> <td>67 </td> <td>0.05% </td> <td>0.54% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Multiracial_Americans" title="Multiracial Americans">Mixed Race/Multi-Racial</a> (NH) </td> <td>151 </td> <td>598 </td> <td>1.24% </td> <td>4.80% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans" title="Hispanic and Latino Americans">Hispanic or Latino</a> (any race) </td> <td>221 </td> <td>463 </td> <td>1.82% </td> <td>3.72% </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>Total</b> </td> <td><b>12,150</b> </td> <td><b>12,460</b> </td> <td><b>100.00%</b> </td> <td><b>100.00%</b> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i>Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos can be of any race.</i> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2010_census">2010 census</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Poquoson,_Virginia&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: 2010 census"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:USA_Poquoson_city,_Virginia_age_pyramid.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/USA_Poquoson_city%2C_Virginia_age_pyramid.svg/220px-USA_Poquoson_city%2C_Virginia_age_pyramid.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="254" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/USA_Poquoson_city%2C_Virginia_age_pyramid.svg/330px-USA_Poquoson_city%2C_Virginia_age_pyramid.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/USA_Poquoson_city%2C_Virginia_age_pyramid.svg/440px-USA_Poquoson_city%2C_Virginia_age_pyramid.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="520" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption>Age distribution for Poquoson.</figcaption></figure> <p>As of the <a href="/wiki/Census" title="Census">census</a><sup id="cite_ref-GR8_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GR8-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> of 2010, there were 12,150 people, 4,166 households, and 3,370 families residing in the city. The <a href="/wiki/Population_density" title="Population density">population density</a> was 745.4 people per square mile (287.8 people/km<sup>2</sup>). There were 4,300 housing units at an average density of 277.1 per square mile (107.0/km<sup>2</sup>). The racial makeup of the city was 95.1% <a href="/wiki/White_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="White (U.S. Census)">White</a>, 0.6% <a href="/wiki/African_American_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="African American (U.S. Census)">African American</a>, 0.3% <a href="/wiki/Native_American_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Native American (U.S. Census)">Native American</a>, 2.1% <a href="/wiki/Asian_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Asian (U.S. Census)">Asian</a>, 0.0% <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Islander_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pacific Islander (U.S. Census)">Pacific Islander</a>, 0.3% from <a href="/wiki/Race_(United_States_Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Race (United States Census)">other races</a>, and 1.4% from two or more races. <a href="/wiki/Hispanic_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hispanic (U.S. Census)">Hispanic</a> or <a href="/wiki/Latino_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Latino (U.S. Census)">Latino</a> of any race were 1.8% of the population. </p><p>There were 4,166 households, out of which 39.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 69.4% were <a href="/wiki/Marriage" title="Marriage">married couples</a> living together, 8.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 19.1% were non-families. 15.9% of all households were made up of individuals, and 7.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.75 and the average family size was 3.08. </p><p>In the city, the population was spread out, with 26.8% under the age of 18, 6.4% from 18 to 24, 26.7% from 25 to 44, 28.7% from 45 to 64, and 11.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females, there were 100.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 94.4 males. </p><p>The median income for a household in the city was $86,611, and the median income for a family was $96,419. Males had a median income of $71,025 versus $43,864 for females. The <a href="/wiki/Per_capita_income" title="Per capita income">per capita income</a> for the city was $37,988. About 2.9% of families and 4.3% of the population were below the <a href="/wiki/Poverty_line" class="mw-redirect" title="Poverty line">poverty line</a>, including 6.5% of those under age 18 and 6.5% of those age 65 or over. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Culture">Culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Poquoson,_Virginia&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Poquoson,_Virginia_Museum_Marsh_Path.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Poquoson%2C_Virginia_Museum_Marsh_Path.JPG/220px-Poquoson%2C_Virginia_Museum_Marsh_Path.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Poquoson%2C_Virginia_Museum_Marsh_Path.JPG/330px-Poquoson%2C_Virginia_Museum_Marsh_Path.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Poquoson%2C_Virginia_Museum_Marsh_Path.JPG/440px-Poquoson%2C_Virginia_Museum_Marsh_Path.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3968" data-file-height="2232" /></a><figcaption>View from the Poquoson Museum's marsh path.</figcaption></figure> <p>Prior to <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War">Cold War</a>-era expansions of nearby military bases and defense industries, and <a href="/wiki/White_flight" title="White flight">white flight</a> from the nearby cities of Hampton and Newport News following the <a href="/wiki/Racial_integration" title="Racial integration">racial integration</a> of schools that rapidly turned the area into a bedroom community, Poquoson was a sleepy rural area with many small <a href="/wiki/Family_farms" class="mw-redirect" title="Family farms">family farms</a>, commercial wharves, seafood packing houses, and boat yards that built and repaired <a href="/wiki/Log_canoe" title="Log canoe">log canoes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oyster_buy-boat" title="Oyster buy-boat">oyster buy-boats</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Chesapeake_Bay_deadrise" title="Chesapeake Bay deadrise">Chesapeake Bay deadrise</a> work boats used by the local waterman. The annual Poquoson Seafood Festival<sup id="cite_ref-Poquoson_Seafood_Festival_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Poquoson_Seafood_Festival-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which celebrates Poquoson's heritage is the biggest event in Poquoson. Events at the Friday - Sunday festival include work boat races, singers/bands, vendors, food, crafts, children's entertainment, carnival rides, and sometimes even fireworks. </p><p>The Poquoson Museum,<sup id="cite_ref-Poquoson_Museum_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Poquoson_Museum-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> founded in 2003, is located on a 16-acre parcel that contains a circa 1900 farm house, agricultural out buildings, frontage along the marshes of Topping Creek and a country store known as ‘Miss Becky’s Store’ that served local residents for many years. In April 2013 the museum completed work on a marsh walk that incorporates 750 feet of raised platforms with signs highlighting different native wildlife and plant life.<sup id="cite_ref-Poquoson_Museum_Marsh_Walk_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Poquoson_Museum_Marsh_Walk-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Education">Education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Poquoson,_Virginia&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The city is served by Poquoson City Public Schools. There are 4 <a href="/wiki/Public_school_(government_funded)" class="mw-redirect" title="Public school (government funded)">public schools</a> in Poquoson. There is the Poquoson Primary School for Kindergarten, and 1st and 2nd grades. Poquoson Elementary School serves the 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades. Poquoson Middle School offers 6th, 7th, and 8th grade classes. <a href="/wiki/Poquoson_High_School" title="Poquoson High School">Poquoson High School</a> has grades 9–12. Poquoson's mascot is the Bull Islander in reference to city folklore, which is often shortened to "<a href="/wiki/Bull" title="Bull">bull</a>" or "islander" for simplicity.<sup id="cite_ref-Poquoson_Schools_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Poquoson_Schools-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There are no private schools or colleges in Poquoson and York County. However, there are institutions of each type close by on the <a href="/wiki/Virginia_Peninsula" title="Virginia Peninsula">Virginia Peninsula</a>. Some of the private schools include <a href="/wiki/Hampton_Roads_Academy" title="Hampton Roads Academy">Hampton Roads Academy</a>, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Catholic School, Peninsula Catholic High School, and Denbigh Baptist Christian School, all in Newport News. </p><p>Higher education is available at <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Nelson_Community_College" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas Nelson Community College">Thomas Nelson Community College</a>, with campuses in Hampton and <a href="/wiki/James_City_County,_Virginia" title="James City County, Virginia">James City County</a>, <a href="/wiki/Old_Dominion_University" title="Old Dominion University">Old Dominion University</a> and <a href="/wiki/Norfolk_State_University" title="Norfolk State University">Norfolk State University</a> in Norfolk, <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Newport_University" title="Christopher Newport University">Christopher Newport University</a> in Newport News, <a href="/wiki/Hampton_University" title="Hampton University">Hampton University</a> in Hampton, and the <a href="/wiki/College_of_William_and_Mary" class="mw-redirect" title="College of William and Mary">College of William and Mary</a> in <a href="/wiki/Williamsburg,_Virginia" title="Williamsburg, Virginia">Williamsburg</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sister_cities_and_schools">Sister cities and schools</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Poquoson,_Virginia&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Sister cities and schools"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Poquoson's sister city is: </p> <ul><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/23px-Flag_of_France.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/35px-Flag_of_France.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/45px-Flag_of_France.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Le_Bar-sur-Loup" title="Le Bar-sur-Loup">Le Bar-sur-Loup</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alpes-Maritimes" title="Alpes-Maritimes">Alpes-Maritimes</a>, France.<sup id="cite_ref-Le_Bar_Sur_Loup_54-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Le_Bar_Sur_Loup-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>Poquoson has two current partner schools. </p> <ul><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Flag_of_Panama.svg/23px-Flag_of_Panama.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Flag_of_Panama.svg/35px-Flag_of_Panama.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Flag_of_Panama.svg/45px-Flag_of_Panama.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Balboa_Academy" title="Balboa Academy">Balboa Academy</a>, Panama<sup id="cite_ref-Balboa_Academy_55-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Balboa_Academy-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Flag_of_Uruguay.svg/23px-Flag_of_Uruguay.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Flag_of_Uruguay.svg/35px-Flag_of_Uruguay.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Flag_of_Uruguay.svg/45px-Flag_of_Uruguay.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="341" /></span></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Uruguayan_American_School" title="Uruguayan American School">Uruguayan American School</a>, Uruguay<sup id="cite_ref-Poquoson_Sister_Schools_56-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Poquoson_Sister_Schools-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_people">Notable people</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Poquoson,_Virginia&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Notable people"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Baiju_Bhatt" title="Baiju Bhatt">Baiju Bhatt</a>, <a href="/wiki/Robinhood_(company)" class="mw-redirect" title="Robinhood (company)">Robinhood</a> co-founder<sup id="cite_ref-bhatt_57-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bhatt-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kyle_Crockett" title="Kyle Crockett">Kyle Crockett</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Indians" class="mw-redirect" title="Cleveland Indians">Cleveland Indians</a> baseball player<sup id="cite_ref-crockett_58-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-crockett-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kitty_O%27Brien_Joyner" class="mw-redirect" title="Kitty O'Brien Joyner">Kitty O'Brien Joyner</a>, <a href="/wiki/NASA" title="NASA">NASA</a>'s first female engineer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chad_Pinder" title="Chad Pinder">Chad Pinder</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oakland_Athletics" title="Oakland Athletics">Oakland Athletics</a> baseball player</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Gallery">Gallery</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Poquoson,_Virginia&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Gallery"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Poquoson_Whitehouse_Cove_Dock_Fall_2011.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="View from the old Whitehouse Cove public boat ramp"><img alt="View from the old Whitehouse Cove public boat ramp" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Poquoson_Whitehouse_Cove_Dock_Fall_2011.JPG/120px-Poquoson_Whitehouse_Cove_Dock_Fall_2011.JPG" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Poquoson_Whitehouse_Cove_Dock_Fall_2011.JPG/180px-Poquoson_Whitehouse_Cove_Dock_Fall_2011.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Poquoson_Whitehouse_Cove_Dock_Fall_2011.JPG/240px-Poquoson_Whitehouse_Cove_Dock_Fall_2011.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2592" data-file-height="1936" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">View from the old Whitehouse Cove public boat ramp</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Whitehouse_Cove_Owens_Marina_Poquoson_Fall_2011.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Poquoson Marina near Owen's Marina and Whitehouse Cove leading out towards the Chesapeake Bay"><img alt="Poquoson Marina near Owen's Marina and Whitehouse Cove leading out towards the Chesapeake Bay" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Whitehouse_Cove_Owens_Marina_Poquoson_Fall_2011.JPG/120px-Whitehouse_Cove_Owens_Marina_Poquoson_Fall_2011.JPG" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Whitehouse_Cove_Owens_Marina_Poquoson_Fall_2011.JPG/180px-Whitehouse_Cove_Owens_Marina_Poquoson_Fall_2011.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Whitehouse_Cove_Owens_Marina_Poquoson_Fall_2011.JPG/240px-Whitehouse_Cove_Owens_Marina_Poquoson_Fall_2011.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3888" data-file-height="2592" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Poquoson Marina near Owen's Marina and Whitehouse Cove leading out towards the <a href="/wiki/Chesapeake_Bay" title="Chesapeake Bay">Chesapeake Bay</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Poquoson_Entrance_Wythe_Creek_Road.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Wythe Creek Road approaching the city from Hampton across Brick Kiln Creek"><img alt="Wythe Creek Road approaching the city from Hampton across Brick Kiln Creek" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Poquoson_Entrance_Wythe_Creek_Road.JPG/120px-Poquoson_Entrance_Wythe_Creek_Road.JPG" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Poquoson_Entrance_Wythe_Creek_Road.JPG/180px-Poquoson_Entrance_Wythe_Creek_Road.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Poquoson_Entrance_Wythe_Creek_Road.JPG/240px-Poquoson_Entrance_Wythe_Creek_Road.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3264" data-file-height="2448" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Virginia_State_Route_172" title="Virginia State Route 172">Wythe Creek Road</a> approaching the city from <a href="/wiki/Hampton,_Virginia" title="Hampton, Virginia">Hampton</a> across Brick Kiln Creek</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Messick_Point_Boats_Winter_2011.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Boats docked during the winter at Messick Point"><img alt="Boats docked during the winter at Messick Point" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Messick_Point_Boats_Winter_2011.JPG/90px-Messick_Point_Boats_Winter_2011.JPG" decoding="async" width="90" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Messick_Point_Boats_Winter_2011.JPG/134px-Messick_Point_Boats_Winter_2011.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Messick_Point_Boats_Winter_2011.JPG/179px-Messick_Point_Boats_Winter_2011.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1936" data-file-height="2592" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Boats docked during the winter at Messick Point</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Messick_Point_View_Towards_Poquoson.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Looking towards the city from Messick Point"><img alt="Looking towards the city from Messick Point" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Messick_Point_View_Towards_Poquoson.JPG/120px-Messick_Point_View_Towards_Poquoson.JPG" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Messick_Point_View_Towards_Poquoson.JPG/180px-Messick_Point_View_Towards_Poquoson.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Messick_Point_View_Towards_Poquoson.JPG/240px-Messick_Point_View_Towards_Poquoson.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2592" data-file-height="1936" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Looking towards the city from Messick Point</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Poquoson_Hunts_Neck_Point_PoquosonRiver.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="View of the Poquoson River facing towards York County from the end of Hunts Neck Road"><img alt="View of the Poquoson River facing towards York County from the end of Hunts Neck Road" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Poquoson_Hunts_Neck_Point_PoquosonRiver.jpg/120px-Poquoson_Hunts_Neck_Point_PoquosonRiver.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Poquoson_Hunts_Neck_Point_PoquosonRiver.jpg/180px-Poquoson_Hunts_Neck_Point_PoquosonRiver.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Poquoson_Hunts_Neck_Point_PoquosonRiver.jpg/240px-Poquoson_Hunts_Neck_Point_PoquosonRiver.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2592" data-file-height="1936" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">View of the <a href="/wiki/Poquoson_River" title="Poquoson River">Poquoson River</a> facing towards <a href="/wiki/York_County,_Virginia" title="York County, Virginia">York County</a> from the end of Hunts Neck Road</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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For more information, see <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://threadex.rcc-acis.org">Threadex</a>.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Poquoson,_Virginia&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239549316">.mw-parser-output .refbegin{margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul{margin-left:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{margin-left:0;padding-left:3.2em;text-indent:-3.2em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul,.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul li{list-style:none}@media(max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{padding-left:1.6em;text-indent:-1.6em}}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .refbegin{font-size:90%}}</style><div class="refbegin" style=""> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width reflist-columns-2"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-CenPopGazetteer2019-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-CenPopGazetteer2019_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/gazetteer/2019_Gazetteer/2019_gaz_place_51.txt">"2019 U.S. Gazetteer Files"</a>. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">January 31,</span> 2008</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=US+Board+on+Geographic+Names&rft.pub=United+States+Geological+Survey&rft.date=2007-10-25&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fgeonames.usgs.gov&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APoquoson%2C+Virginia" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://data.census.gov/cedsci/profile?g=0600000US5173595115">"Poquoson city, Poquoson city, Virginia"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/United_States_Census_Bureau" title="United States Census Bureau">United States Census Bureau</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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title="Claremont, Virginia">Claremont</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dendron,_Virginia" title="Dendron, Virginia">Dendron</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Smithfield,_Virginia" title="Smithfield, Virginia">Smithfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Surry,_Virginia" title="Surry, Virginia">Surry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Windsor,_Virginia" title="Windsor, Virginia">Windsor</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Sub-regions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/South_Hampton_Roads" title="South Hampton Roads">South Hampton Roads</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Virginia_Peninsula" title="Virginia Peninsula">Virginia Peninsula</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Western_Tidewater&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Western Tidewater (page does not exist)">Western Tidewater</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Topics</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Transportation_in_Hampton_Roads" title="Transportation in Hampton Roads">Transportation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_people_from_Hampton_Roads" class="mw-redirect" title="List of people from Hampton Roads">People</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Hampton_Roads" title="History of Hampton Roads">History</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Hampton_Roads" title="Battle of Hampton Roads">Battle of Hampton Roads</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Filipino_Americans_in_Hampton_Roads" title="Filipino Americans in Hampton Roads">Filipino Americans</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">See Also</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Northeast_megalopolis" title="Northeast megalopolis">Northeast megalopolis</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div>Note: Cities are independent, not being part of any county</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Commonwealth_of_Virginia" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Virginia" title="Template:Virginia"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Virginia" title="Template talk:Virginia"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Virginia" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Virginia"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Commonwealth_of_Virginia" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Commonwealth_(U.S._state)" title="Commonwealth (U.S. state)">Commonwealth</a> of <a href="/wiki/Virginia" title="Virginia">Virginia</a></div></th></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div><b><a href="/wiki/Richmond,_Virginia" title="Richmond, Virginia">Richmond</a></b> (capital)</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Index_of_Virginia-related_articles" title="Index of Virginia-related articles">Topics</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_Virginia" title="Outline of Virginia">Outline</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_Virginia" title="Administrative divisions of Virginia">Administrative divisions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Climate_of_Virginia" title="Climate of Virginia">Climate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colony_of_Virginia" title="Colony of Virginia">Colony</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Virginia%27s_congressional_districts" title="Virginia's congressional districts">Congressional districts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_congressional_delegations_from_Virginia" title="United States congressional delegations from Virginia">Delegations</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_senators_from_Virginia" title="List of United States senators from Virginia">Senators</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_representatives_from_Virginia" title="List of United States representatives from Virginia">Representatives</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Environment_of_Virginia" title="Environment of Virginia">Environment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Virginia_furniture" title="Virginia furniture">Furniture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Government_of_Virginia" title="Government of Virginia">Government</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_historic_houses_in_Virginia" title="List of historic houses in Virginia">Historic houses</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_National_Historic_Landmarks_in_Virginia" title="List of National Historic Landmarks in Virginia">Historic Landmarks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Virginia" title="History of Virginia">History</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/First_Families_of_Virginia" title="First Families of Virginia">First Families</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_Virginia" title="History of slavery in Virginia">Slavery</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Homelessness_in_Virginia" class="mw-redirect" title="Homelessness in Virginia">Homelessness</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Housing_in_Virginia" title="Housing in Virginia">Housing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Law_of_Virginia" title="Law of Virginia">Law</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gun_laws_in_Virginia" title="Gun laws in Virginia">Gun laws in Virginia</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Virginia" class="mw-redirect" title="LGBT rights in Virginia">LGBT rights</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Music_of_Virginia" title="Music of Virginia">Music</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_people_from_Virginia" title="List of people from Virginia">People</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Virginia_Declaration_of_Rights" title="Virginia Declaration of Rights">Rights</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_rivers_of_Virginia" title="List of rivers of Virginia">Rivers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scouting_in_Virginia" title="Scouting in Virginia">Scouting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Virginia_is_for_Lovers" class="mw-redirect" title="Virginia is for Lovers">Slogan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sports_teams_in_Virginia" title="Sports teams in Virginia">Sports teams</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/State_Fair_of_Virginia" title="State Fair of Virginia">State Fair</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Virginia_state_parks" title="List of Virginia state parks">State parks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Virginia_state_symbols" title="List of Virginia state symbols">Symbols</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Tourist_attractions_in_Virginia" title="Category:Tourist attractions in Virginia">Tourist attractions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Transportation_in_Virginia" title="Transportation in Virginia">Transportation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Native_American_tribes_in_Virginia" title="Native American tribes in Virginia">Tribes</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Culture_of_Virginia" title="Culture of Virginia">Culture</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abortion_in_Virginia" title="Abortion in Virginia">Abortion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crime_in_Virginia" title="Crime in Virginia">Crime</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Virginia" title="Demographics of Virginia">Demographics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Economy_of_Virginia" title="Economy of Virginia">Economy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Education_in_Virginia" title="Education in Virginia">Education</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_colleges_and_universities_in_Virginia" title="List of colleges and universities in Virginia">Colleges and universities</a></li></ul></li> <li>Media <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_Virginia" title="List of newspapers in Virginia">Newspapers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_radio_stations_in_Virginia" title="List of radio stations in Virginia">Radio</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_television_stations_in_Virginia" title="List of television stations in Virginia">TV</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Politics_of_Virginia" title="Politics of Virginia">Politics</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_regions_of_the_United_States#Virginia" title="List of regions of the United States">Regions</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Allegheny_Mountains" title="Allegheny Mountains">Allegheny Mountains</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atlantic_coastal_plain" class="mw-redirect" title="Atlantic coastal plain">Atlantic Coastal Plain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blue_Ridge_Mountains" title="Blue Ridge Mountains">Blue Ridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chesapeake_Bay" title="Chesapeake Bay">Chesapeake Bay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cumberland_Mountains" title="Cumberland Mountains">Cumberland Mountains</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Delmarva_Peninsula" title="Delmarva Peninsula">Delmarva Peninsula</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Shore_of_Virginia" title="Eastern Shore of Virginia">Eastern Shore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hampton_Roads" title="Hampton Roads">Hampton Roads</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Middle_Peninsula" title="Middle Peninsula">Middle Peninsula</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northern_Neck" title="Northern Neck">Northern Neck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northern_Virginia" title="Northern Virginia">Northern Virginia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Piedmont_region_of_Virginia" title="Piedmont region of Virginia">Piedmont</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ridge-and-Valley_Appalachians" title="Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians">Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shenandoah_Valley" title="Shenandoah Valley">Shenandoah Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Hampton_Roads" title="South Hampton Roads">South Hampton Roads</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southside_(Virginia)" title="Southside (Virginia)">Southside</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southwest_Virginia" title="Southwest Virginia">Southwest Virginia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tennessee_Valley" title="Tennessee Valley">Tennessee Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tidewater_(region)" title="Tidewater (region)">Tidewater</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tri-Cities,_Virginia" title="Tri-Cities, Virginia">Tri-Cities</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Virginia_Peninsula" title="Virginia Peninsula">Virginia Peninsula</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Western_Virginia" title="Western Virginia">Western Virginia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Virginia_statistical_areas" title="Virginia statistical areas">Metro areas</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Blacksburg%E2%80%93Christiansburg_metropolitan_area" title="Blacksburg–Christiansburg metropolitan area">Blacksburg-Christiansburg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bluefield_micropolitan_area" title="Bluefield micropolitan area">Bluefield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kingsport%E2%80%93Bristol%E2%80%93Bristol,_Tennessee-Virginia_Metropolitan_Statistical_Area" class="mw-redirect" title="Kingsport–Bristol–Bristol, Tennessee-Virginia Metropolitan Statistical Area">Bristol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charlottesville,_Virginia_metropolitan_area" title="Charlottesville, Virginia metropolitan area">Charlottesville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Danville,_Virginia_micropolitan_area" title="Danville, Virginia micropolitan area">Danville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harrisonburg_metropolitan_area" title="Harrisonburg metropolitan area">Harrisonburg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lynchburg_metropolitan_area" title="Lynchburg metropolitan area">Lynchburg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martinsville,_Virginia_micropolitan_area" title="Martinsville, Virginia micropolitan area">Martinsville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greater_Richmond_Region" title="Greater Richmond Region">Richmond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roanoke_metropolitan_area" title="Roanoke metropolitan area">Roanoke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Staunton%E2%80%93Waynesboro_metropolitan_area" title="Staunton–Waynesboro metropolitan area">Staunton-Waynesboro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hampton_Roads" title="Hampton Roads">Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Washington_metropolitan_area" title="Washington metropolitan area">Washington-Arlington-Alexandria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Winchester,_VA%E2%80%93WV_MSA" title="Winchester, VA–WV MSA">Winchester</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_cities_and_counties_in_Virginia" title="List of cities and counties in Virginia">Counties</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Accomack_County,_Virginia" title="Accomack County, Virginia">Accomack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Albemarle_County,_Virginia" title="Albemarle County, Virginia">Albemarle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alleghany_County,_Virginia" title="Alleghany County, Virginia">Alleghany</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amelia_County,_Virginia" title="Amelia County, Virginia">Amelia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amherst_County,_Virginia" title="Amherst County, Virginia">Amherst</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Appomattox_County,_Virginia" title="Appomattox County, Virginia">Appomattox</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arlington_County,_Virginia" title="Arlington County, Virginia">Arlington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Augusta_County,_Virginia" title="Augusta County, Virginia">Augusta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bath_County,_Virginia" title="Bath County, Virginia">Bath</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bedford_County,_Virginia" title="Bedford County, Virginia">Bedford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bland_County,_Virginia" title="Bland County, Virginia">Bland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Botetourt_County,_Virginia" title="Botetourt County, Virginia">Botetourt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brunswick_County,_Virginia" title="Brunswick County, Virginia">Brunswick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buchanan_County,_Virginia" title="Buchanan County, Virginia">Buchanan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buckingham_County,_Virginia" title="Buckingham County, Virginia">Buckingham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Campbell_County,_Virginia" title="Campbell County, Virginia">Campbell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caroline_County,_Virginia" title="Caroline County, Virginia">Caroline</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carroll_County,_Virginia" title="Carroll County, Virginia">Carroll</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_City_County,_Virginia" title="Charles City County, Virginia">Charles City</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charlotte_County,_Virginia" title="Charlotte County, Virginia">Charlotte</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chesterfield_County,_Virginia" title="Chesterfield County, Virginia">Chesterfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clarke_County,_Virginia" title="Clarke County, Virginia">Clarke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Craig_County,_Virginia" title="Craig County, Virginia">Craig</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Culpeper_County,_Virginia" title="Culpeper County, Virginia">Culpeper</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cumberland_County,_Virginia" title="Cumberland County, Virginia">Cumberland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dickenson_County,_Virginia" title="Dickenson County, Virginia">Dickenson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dinwiddie_County,_Virginia" title="Dinwiddie County, Virginia">Dinwiddie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Essex_County,_Virginia" title="Essex County, Virginia">Essex</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fairfax_County,_Virginia" title="Fairfax County, Virginia">Fairfax</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fauquier_County,_Virginia" title="Fauquier County, Virginia">Fauquier</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Floyd_County,_Virginia" title="Floyd County, Virginia">Floyd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fluvanna_County,_Virginia" title="Fluvanna County, Virginia">Fluvanna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Franklin_County,_Virginia" title="Franklin County, Virginia">Franklin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frederick_County,_Virginia" title="Frederick County, Virginia">Frederick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Giles_County,_Virginia" title="Giles County, Virginia">Giles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gloucester_County,_Virginia" title="Gloucester County, Virginia">Gloucester</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Goochland_County,_Virginia" title="Goochland County, Virginia">Goochland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grayson_County,_Virginia" title="Grayson County, Virginia">Grayson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greene_County,_Virginia" title="Greene County, Virginia">Greene</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greensville_County,_Virginia" title="Greensville County, Virginia">Greensville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Halifax_County,_Virginia" title="Halifax County, Virginia">Halifax</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hanover_County,_Virginia" title="Hanover County, Virginia">Hanover</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henrico_County,_Virginia" title="Henrico County, Virginia">Henrico</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_County,_Virginia" title="Henry County, Virginia">Henry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Highland_County,_Virginia" title="Highland County, Virginia">Highland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isle_of_Wight_County,_Virginia" title="Isle of Wight County, Virginia">Isle of Wight</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_City_County,_Virginia" title="James City County, Virginia">James City</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/King_and_Queen_County,_Virginia" title="King and Queen County, Virginia">King and Queen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/King_George_County,_Virginia" title="King George County, Virginia">King George</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/King_William_County,_Virginia" title="King William County, Virginia">King William</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lancaster_County,_Virginia" title="Lancaster County, Virginia">Lancaster</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lee_County,_Virginia" title="Lee County, Virginia">Lee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Loudoun_County,_Virginia" title="Loudoun County, Virginia">Loudoun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louisa_County,_Virginia" title="Louisa County, Virginia">Louisa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lunenburg_County,_Virginia" title="Lunenburg County, Virginia">Lunenburg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madison_County,_Virginia" title="Madison County, Virginia">Madison</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mathews_County,_Virginia" title="Mathews County, Virginia">Mathews</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mecklenburg_County,_Virginia" title="Mecklenburg County, Virginia">Mecklenburg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Middlesex_County,_Virginia" title="Middlesex County, Virginia">Middlesex</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Montgomery_County,_Virginia" title="Montgomery County, Virginia">Montgomery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nelson_County,_Virginia" title="Nelson County, Virginia">Nelson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Kent_County,_Virginia" title="New Kent County, Virginia">New Kent</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northampton_County,_Virginia" title="Northampton County, Virginia">Northampton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northumberland_County,_Virginia" title="Northumberland County, Virginia">Northumberland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nottoway_County,_Virginia" title="Nottoway County, Virginia">Nottoway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orange_County,_Virginia" title="Orange County, Virginia">Orange</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Page_County,_Virginia" title="Page County, Virginia">Page</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patrick_County,_Virginia" title="Patrick County, Virginia">Patrick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pittsylvania_County,_Virginia" title="Pittsylvania County, Virginia">Pittsylvania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Powhatan_County,_Virginia" title="Powhatan County, Virginia">Powhatan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prince_Edward_County,_Virginia" title="Prince Edward County, Virginia">Prince Edward</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prince_George_County,_Virginia" title="Prince George County, Virginia">Prince George</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prince_William_County,_Virginia" title="Prince William County, Virginia">Prince William</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pulaski_County,_Virginia" title="Pulaski County, Virginia">Pulaski</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rappahannock_County,_Virginia" title="Rappahannock County, Virginia">Rappahannock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richmond_County,_Virginia" title="Richmond County, Virginia">Richmond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roanoke_County,_Virginia" title="Roanoke County, Virginia">Roanoke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rockbridge_County,_Virginia" title="Rockbridge County, Virginia">Rockbridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rockingham_County,_Virginia" title="Rockingham County, Virginia">Rockingham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russell_County,_Virginia" title="Russell County, Virginia">Russell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scott_County,_Virginia" title="Scott County, Virginia">Scott</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shenandoah_County,_Virginia" title="Shenandoah County, Virginia">Shenandoah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Smyth_County,_Virginia" title="Smyth County, Virginia">Smyth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southampton_County,_Virginia" title="Southampton County, Virginia">Southampton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spotsylvania_County,_Virginia" title="Spotsylvania County, Virginia">Spotsylvania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stafford_County,_Virginia" title="Stafford County, Virginia">Stafford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Surry_County,_Virginia" title="Surry County, Virginia">Surry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sussex_County,_Virginia" title="Sussex County, Virginia">Sussex</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tazewell_County,_Virginia" title="Tazewell County, Virginia">Tazewell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Warren_County,_Virginia" title="Warren County, Virginia">Warren</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Washington_County,_Virginia" title="Washington County, Virginia">Washington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Westmoreland_County,_Virginia" title="Westmoreland County, Virginia">Westmoreland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wise_County,_Virginia" title="Wise County, Virginia">Wise</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wythe_County,_Virginia" title="Wythe County, Virginia">Wythe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/York_County,_Virginia" title="York County, Virginia">York</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Independent_city_(United_States)#Virginia" title="Independent city (United States)">Independent<br />cities</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alexandria,_Virginia" title="Alexandria, Virginia">Alexandria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bristol,_Virginia" title="Bristol, Virginia">Bristol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buena_Vista,_Virginia" title="Buena Vista, Virginia">Buena Vista</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charlottesville,_Virginia" title="Charlottesville, Virginia">Charlottesville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chesapeake,_Virginia" title="Chesapeake, Virginia">Chesapeake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colonial_Heights,_Virginia" title="Colonial Heights, Virginia">Colonial Heights</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Covington,_Virginia" title="Covington, Virginia">Covington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Danville,_Virginia" title="Danville, Virginia">Danville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emporia,_Virginia" title="Emporia, Virginia">Emporia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fairfax,_Virginia" title="Fairfax, Virginia">Fairfax</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Falls_Church,_Virginia" title="Falls Church, Virginia">Falls Church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Franklin,_Virginia" title="Franklin, Virginia">Franklin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fredericksburg,_Virginia" title="Fredericksburg, Virginia">Fredericksburg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Galax,_Virginia" title="Galax, Virginia">Galax</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hampton,_Virginia" title="Hampton, Virginia">Hampton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harrisonburg,_Virginia" title="Harrisonburg, Virginia">Harrisonburg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hopewell,_Virginia" title="Hopewell, Virginia">Hopewell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lexington,_Virginia" title="Lexington, Virginia">Lexington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lynchburg,_Virginia" title="Lynchburg, Virginia">Lynchburg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manassas,_Virginia" title="Manassas, Virginia">Manassas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manassas_Park,_Virginia" title="Manassas Park, Virginia">Manassas Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martinsville,_Virginia" title="Martinsville, Virginia">Martinsville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newport_News,_Virginia" title="Newport News, Virginia">Newport News</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norfolk,_Virginia" title="Norfolk, Virginia">Norfolk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norton,_Virginia" title="Norton, Virginia">Norton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Petersburg,_Virginia" title="Petersburg, Virginia">Petersburg</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Poquoson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Portsmouth,_Virginia" title="Portsmouth, Virginia">Portsmouth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Radford,_Virginia" title="Radford, Virginia">Radford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richmond,_Virginia" title="Richmond, Virginia">Richmond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roanoke,_Virginia" title="Roanoke, Virginia">Roanoke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salem,_Virginia" title="Salem, Virginia">Salem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Staunton,_Virginia" title="Staunton, Virginia">Staunton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suffolk,_Virginia" title="Suffolk, Virginia">Suffolk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Virginia_Beach,_Virginia" title="Virginia Beach, Virginia">Virginia Beach</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Waynesboro,_Virginia" title="Waynesboro, Virginia">Waynesboro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Williamsburg,_Virginia" title="Williamsburg, Virginia">Williamsburg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Winchester,_Virginia" title="Winchester, Virginia">Winchester</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div><b><span class="nowrap"><span class="mw-image-border noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="flag" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Flag_of_Virginia.svg/32px-Flag_of_Virginia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="32" height="21" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Flag_of_Virginia.svg/48px-Flag_of_Virginia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Flag_of_Virginia.svg/64px-Flag_of_Virginia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="341" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Portal:Virginia" title="Portal:Virginia">Virginia 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The other areas are urban areas of cities that have an urban area of 150,000+ or of a metropolitan area of at least 250,000+. Satellite cities are in italics.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Mid-Atlantic</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Core cities</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Baltimore_metropolitan_area" title="Baltimore metropolitan area">Baltimore</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Baltimore" title="Baltimore">city</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Delaware_Valley" title="Delaware Valley">Delaware Valley</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Philadelphia" title="Philadelphia">Philadelphia</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Camden,_New_Jersey" title="Camden, New Jersey">Camden</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Wilmington,_Delaware" title="Wilmington, Delaware">Wilmington</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hampton_Roads" title="Hampton Roads">Hampton Roads</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Virginia_Beach,_Virginia" title="Virginia Beach, Virginia">Virginia Beach</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norfolk,_Virginia" title="Norfolk, Virginia">Norfolk</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Newport_News,_Virginia" title="Newport News, Virginia">Newport News</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_York_metropolitan_area" title="New York metropolitan area">New York</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">city</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Newark,_New_Jersey" title="Newark, New Jersey">Newark</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Jersey_City,_New_Jersey" title="Jersey City, New Jersey">Jersey City</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Paterson,_New_Jersey" title="Paterson, New Jersey">Paterson</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth,_New_Jersey" title="Elizabeth, New Jersey">Elizabeth</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greater_Richmond_Region" title="Greater Richmond Region">Richmond</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Richmond,_Virginia" title="Richmond, Virginia">city</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Washington_metropolitan_area" title="Washington metropolitan area">Washington</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">city</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Arlington_County,_Virginia" title="Arlington County, Virginia">Arlington</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Alexandria,_Virginia" title="Alexandria, Virginia">Alexandria</a></i></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other areas</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Atlantic_City,_New_Jersey" title="Atlantic City, New Jersey">Atlantic City</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hagerstown_metropolitan_area" title="Hagerstown metropolitan area">Hagerstown</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hagerstown,_Maryland" title="Hagerstown, Maryland">city</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harrisburg%E2%80%93Carlisle_metropolitan_statistical_area" title="Harrisburg–Carlisle metropolitan statistical area">Harrisburg</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Harrisburg,_Pennsylvania" title="Harrisburg, Pennsylvania">city</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lancaster,_Pennsylvania" title="Lancaster, Pennsylvania">Lancaster</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lehigh_Valley" title="Lehigh Valley">Lehigh Valley</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Allentown,_Pennsylvania" title="Allentown, Pennsylvania">Allentown</a>–<a href="/wiki/Bethlehem,_Pennsylvania" title="Bethlehem, Pennsylvania">Bethlehem</a>-<a href="/wiki/Easton,_Pennsylvania" title="Easton, Pennsylvania">Easton</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northeastern_Pennsylvania" title="Northeastern Pennsylvania">Northeastern Pennsylvania</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wyoming_Valley" title="Wyoming Valley">Scranton/Wilkes-Barre</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Poughkeepsie%E2%80%93Newburgh%E2%80%93Middletown_metropolitan_area" class="mw-redirect" title="Poughkeepsie–Newburgh–Middletown metropolitan area">Poughkeepsie–Newburgh</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Poughkeepsie,_New_York" title="Poughkeepsie, New York">city 1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newburgh,_New_York" title="Newburgh, New York">city 2</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reading,_Pennsylvania" title="Reading, Pennsylvania">Reading</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salisbury_metropolitan_area" title="Salisbury metropolitan area">Salisbury</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Salisbury,_Maryland" title="Salisbury, Maryland">city</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trenton,_New_Jersey" title="Trenton, New Jersey">Trenton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/York,_Pennsylvania" title="York, Pennsylvania">York</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Combined areas</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Washington%E2%80%93Baltimore_metropolitan_area" class="mw-redirect" title="Washington–Baltimore metropolitan area">Washington–Baltimore</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">New England</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Core cities</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Greater_Boston" title="Greater Boston">Boston</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Boston" title="Boston">city</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Cambridge,_Massachusetts" title="Cambridge, Massachusetts">Cambridge</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greater_Hartford" title="Greater Hartford">Hartford</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hartford,_Connecticut" title="Hartford, Connecticut">city</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Providence_metropolitan_area" title="Providence metropolitan area">Providence</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Providence,_Rhode_Island" title="Providence, Rhode Island">city</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other areas</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Barnstable,_Massachusetts" title="Barnstable, Massachusetts">Barnstable</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greater_Bridgeport" title="Greater Bridgeport">Bridgeport–Stamford–Norwalk</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bridgeport,_Connecticut" title="Bridgeport, Connecticut">city 1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stamford,_Connecticut" title="Stamford, Connecticut">city 2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norwalk,_Connecticut" title="Norwalk, Connecticut">city 3</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greater_Danbury" title="Greater Danbury">Danbury</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Danbury,_Connecticut" title="Danbury, Connecticut">city</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manchester,_New_Hampshire" title="Manchester, New Hampshire">Manchester</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nashua,_New_Hampshire" title="Nashua, New Hampshire">Nashua</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Bedford,_Massachusetts" title="New Bedford, Massachusetts">New Bedford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greater_New_Haven" title="Greater New Haven">New Haven</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/New_Haven,_Connecticut" title="New Haven, Connecticut">city</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norwich,_Connecticut" title="Norwich, Connecticut">Norwich</a>–<a href="/wiki/New_London,_Connecticut" title="New London, Connecticut">New London</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Portland_metropolitan_area,_Maine" title="Portland metropolitan area, Maine">Portland</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Portland,_Maine" title="Portland, Maine">city</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Springfield_metropolitan_area,_Massachusetts" title="Springfield metropolitan area, Massachusetts">Springfield</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Springfield,_Massachusetts" title="Springfield, Massachusetts">city</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Waterbury,_Connecticut" title="Waterbury, Connecticut">Waterbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Worcester,_Massachusetts" title="Worcester, Massachusetts">Worcester</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Combined areas</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Greater_Boston" title="Greater Boston">Boston–Providence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_York_metropolitan_area" title="New York metropolitan area">Bridgeport–Stamford–New Haven</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hartford%E2%80%93Springfield" title="Hartford–Springfield">Hartford–Springfield</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div><a href="/wiki/Megaregions_of_the_United_States" title="Megaregions of the United States">Other megaregions</a></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="County_seats_and_independent_cities_of_Virginia" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" 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and <a href="/wiki/Independent_city_(United_States)" title="Independent city (United States)">independent cities</a> of <a href="/wiki/Virginia" title="Virginia">Virginia</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="County_seats_of_Virginia" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/County_seat" title="County seat">County seats</a> of <a href="/wiki/Virginia" title="Virginia">Virginia</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abingdon,_Virginia" title="Abingdon, Virginia">Abingdon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Accomac,_Virginia" title="Accomac, Virginia">Accomac</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amelia_Court_House,_Virginia" title="Amelia Court House, Virginia">Amelia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amherst,_Virginia" title="Amherst, Virginia">Amherst</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Appomattox,_Virginia" title="Appomattox, Virginia">Appomattox</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arlington_County,_Virginia" title="Arlington County, Virginia">Arlington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bedford,_Virginia" title="Bedford, Virginia">Bedford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Berryville,_Virginia" title="Berryville, Virginia">Berryville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bland,_Virginia" title="Bland, Virginia">Bland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bowling_Green,_Virginia" title="Bowling Green, Virginia">Bowling Green</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boydton,_Virginia" title="Boydton, Virginia">Boydton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buckingham,_Virginia" title="Buckingham, Virginia">Buckingham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_City,_Virginia" title="Charles City, Virginia">Charles City</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charlotte_Court_House,_Virginia" title="Charlotte Court House, Virginia">Charlotte Court House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charlottesville,_Virginia" title="Charlottesville, Virginia">Charlottesville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chatham,_Virginia" title="Chatham, Virginia">Chatham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chesterfield,_Virginia" class="mw-redirect" title="Chesterfield, Virginia">Chesterfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christiansburg,_Virginia" title="Christiansburg, Virginia">Christiansburg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clintwood,_Virginia" title="Clintwood, Virginia">Clintwood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Courtland,_Virginia" title="Courtland, Virginia">Courtland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Covington,_Virginia" title="Covington, Virginia">Covington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Culpeper,_Virginia" title="Culpeper, Virginia">Culpeper</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cumberland,_Virginia" title="Cumberland, Virginia">Cumberland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dinwiddie,_Virginia" title="Dinwiddie, Virginia">Dinwiddie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eastville,_Virginia" title="Eastville, Virginia">Eastville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emporia,_Virginia" title="Emporia, Virginia">Emporia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fairfax,_Virginia" title="Fairfax, Virginia">Fairfax</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Farmville,_Virginia" title="Farmville, Virginia">Farmville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fincastle,_Virginia" title="Fincastle, Virginia">Fincastle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Floyd,_Virginia" title="Floyd, Virginia">Floyd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Front_Royal,_Virginia" title="Front Royal, Virginia">Front Royal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gate_City,_Virginia" title="Gate City, Virginia">Gate City</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gloucester_Courthouse,_Virginia" title="Gloucester Courthouse, Virginia">Gloucester</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Goochland,_Virginia" title="Goochland, Virginia">Goochland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grundy,_Virginia" title="Grundy, 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