Yorktown
Yorktown is a town in York County, Virginia, United States. It is the county seat of York County, one of the eight original shires formed in colonial Virginia in 1682.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 221 residents
- Description: CDP in Virginia, United States
- Also known as: “Yorktown, VA” and “Yorktown, Virginia”
- Postal codes: 23690-23693
Places of Interest
Highlights include Watermen’s Museum and George P. Coleman Memorial Bridge.
Watermen’s Museum
Museum
The Watermen's Museum is a museum in Yorktown, Virginia. It documents the history of Chesapeake Bay 'watermen', from pre-colonial to modern times. The Museum is located on Water Street and open to the public from April to December.
George P. Coleman Memorial Bridge
Bridge
Photo: Pytheas, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The George P. Coleman Memorial Bridge is a double swing bridge that spans the York River between Yorktown and Gloucester Point, in the United States state of Virginia.
Yorktown Victory Monument
Monument
Photo: Aude, CC BY-SA 2.5.
The Yorktown Victory Monument is a monument erected in Colonial National Historical Park in Yorktown, Virginia, commemorating the 1781 victory at Yorktown and the alliance with France that brought about the end of the American Revolution and the resulting peace with England after the American Revolutionary War.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gloucester Point and Crab.
Gloucester Point
Town
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Gloucester Point is a census-designated place in Gloucester County, Virginia, United States. The population was 9,402 at the 2010 census. It is home to the College of William & Mary's Virginia Institute of Marine Science, a graduate school for the study of oceanography.
Crab
Locality
Crab is an unincorporated community in Gloucester County, in the U. S. state of Virginia. Crab is situated 2 miles northeast of Yorktown.
Lackey
Quarter
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Lackey was a small unincorporated community near Yorktown in York County, Virginia, United States, established primarily after the Civil War. Lackey is now extinct as the properties were bought by the federal government in 1918 for use as a naval military installation. Lackey is situated 2½ miles west of Yorktown.
Yorktown
- Categories: census-designated place in the United States, county seat, and locality
- Location: York County, Virginia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.23789° or 37° 14′ 16″ northLongitude
-76.50806° or 76° 30′ 29″ westPopulation
221Elevation
7 feet (2 metres)United Nations Location Code
US YKWOpen location code
87956FQR+5QOpenStreetMap ID
node 158555944OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Yorktown” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Yorktown, Virginië”
- Afrikaans: “Yorktown”
- Arabic: “يوركتاون”
- Bashkir: “Йорктаун”
- Basque: “Yorktown”
- Belarusian: “Ёрктаўн”
- Bosnian: “Yorktown”
- Catalan: “Yorktown”
- Cebuano: “Yorktown”
- Chechen: “Йорктаун”
- Chinese: “Yorktown”
- Chinese: “約克敦”
- Chinese: “約克鎮”
- Chinese: “约克敦”
- Chinese: “约克镇”
- Danish: “Yorktown i Virginia”
- Danish: “Yorktown”
- Dutch: “Yorktown”
- French: “Yorktown”
- Georgian: “იორკთაუნი”
- Georgian: “იორქტაუნი”
- German: “Yorktown”
- Gilaki: “یؤرکتاؤن (ويرجينيا)”
- Gilaki: “یؤرکتاؤن”
- Hebrew: “יורקטאון”
- Hungarian: “Yorktown”
- Indonesian: “Yorktown, Virginia”
- Indonesian: “Yorktown”
- Irish: “Yorktown”
- Italian: “Yorktown”
- Japanese: “ヨークタウン”
- Korean: “요크타운”
- Ladin: “Yorktown”
- Malagasy: “Yorktown, Virginia”
- Malagasy: “Yorktown”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Yorktown”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Yorktown”
- Norwegian: “Yorktown i Virginia”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Eoforwīctūn (Firginiæ)”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Eoforwīctūn”
- Persian: “یورک تاون”
- Persian: “یورکتاون”
- Polish: “Yorktown”
- Portuguese: “Yorktown”
- Russian: “Йорктаун”
- Serbian: “Jorktaun”
- Serbian: “Yorktown, Virginia”
- Serbian: “Јорктаун”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Yorktown, Virginia”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Yorktown”
- Slovak: “Yorktown”
- Slovenian: “Yorktown”
- South Azerbaijani: “یورک تاون، ویرجینیا”
- Spanish: “Yorktown (Virginia)”
- Spanish: “Yorktown”
- Swedish: “Yorktown, Virginia”
- Swedish: “Yorktown”
- Tagalog: “Yorktown”
- Talysh: “Jorktaun”
- Tatar: “Йорктаун”
- Ukrainian: “Йорктаун”
- Urdu: “یارک ٹاؤن، ورجینیا”
- Urdu: “یورکتوؤن، ورجینیا”
- Urdu: “یورکتوؤن”
- Uzbek: “Yorktown”
- Volapük: “Yorktown”
- Welsh: “Yorktown, Virginia”
- Welsh: “Yorktown”
- Yue Chinese: “約克鎮”
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