Chesapeake, Virginia
| Chesapeake, Virginia | |||
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| City of Chesapeake | |||
Great Dismal Swamp Canal
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| Motto: "One Increasing Purpose" | |||
 Location in the State of Virginia |
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 Chesapeake, Virginia
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| Coordinates: 36°42′51″N 76°14′18″W / 36.71417°N 76.23833°W | |||
| Country |  United States |
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| County | None (Independent city) | ||
| Founded | 1963 (1919 as South Norfolk, became city in 1922) | ||
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| • Type | Council-Manager | ||
| • Mayor | Alan P. Krasnoff (R) | ||
| Area | |||
| • Independent city | 910 km2 (351 sq mi) | ||
| • Land | 880 km2 (341 sq mi) | ||
| • Water | 30 km2 (10 sq mi) 2.9% | ||
| Population (2014) | |||
| • Independent city | 233,479 | ||
| • Density | 252/km2 (652/sq mi) | ||
| • Metro | 1,672,319 | ||
| Time zone | EST (UTC-5) | ||
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) | ||
| ZIP codes | 23320-23328 | ||
| Area code(s) | 757 | ||
| FIPS code | 51-16000 | ||
| GNIS feature ID | 1496841 | ||
| Website | www.cityofchesapeake.net | ||
Chesapeake is an independent city located in the U.S. commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 222,209; in 2013, the population was estimated to be 232,977, making it the third-most populous city in Virginia.
Chesapeake is included in the Virginia Beach–Norfolk–Newport News, VA–NC MSA. One of the cities in the South Hampton Roads, Chesapeake was organized in 1963 by voter referendums approving the political consolidation of the city of South Norfolk with the remnants of the former Norfolk County, which dated to 1691. (Much of the territory of the county had been annexed by other cities.) Chesapeake is the second-largest city by land area in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Chesapeake is a diverse city in which a few urban areas are located; it also has many square miles of protected farmland, forests, and wetlands, including a substantial portion of the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge. Extending from the rural border with North Carolina to the harbor area of Hampton Roads adjacent to the cities of Norfolk, Portsmouth, Suffolk, and Virginia Beach, Chesapeake is located on the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway. It has miles of waterfront industrial, commercial and residential property.
In 2011, Chesapeake was named the 21st best city in America by Bloomberg Businessweek.
In 1963, the new independent city of Chesapeake was created when the former independent city of South Norfolk consolidated with Norfolk County. The consolidation was approved and the new name selected by the voters of each community by referendum, and authorized by the Virginia General Assembly.
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