Yorktown

Yorktown is a town in , United States. It is the county seat of York County, one of the eight original shires formed in colonial Virginia in 1682.
Wikipedia
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  • Type: Town 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.

Museum
The Watermen's Museum is a museum in Yorktown, Virginia. It documents the history of '', from pre-colonial to modern times. The Museum is located on Water Street and open to the public from April to December.

Bridge
Photo: Pytheas, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a double swing bridge that spans the between Yorktown and , in the United States state of .

Monument
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The is a monument erected in in Yorktown, , commemorating the 1781 victory at Yorktown and the alliance with that brought about the end of the American Revolution and the resulting peace with after the American Revolutionary War.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gloucester Point and Crab.

Town
Photo: Carmenshields, CC BY 3.0.
is a census-designated place in , United States. As of the 2020 census, had a population of 10,587.

Locality
is an unincorporated community in , in the U. S. state of . is situated 2 miles northeast of Yorktown.

Quarter
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
was a small unincorporated community near Yorktown in , , United States, established primarily after the Civil War. is now extinct as the properties were bought by the federal government in 1918 for use as a naval military installation. is situated 2½ miles west of Yorktown.

Yorktown

Latitude
37.23789° or 37° 14′ 16″ north
Longitude
-76.50806° or 76° 30′ 29″ west
Population
221
Elevation
7 feet (2 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US YKW
Open location code
87956FQR+5Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158555944
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4046946
Wiki­data ID
Q938699
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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”
  • Czech: “Yorktown”
  • 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”
  • “Yorktown”

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