Assawoman Inlet

Assawoman Inlet is a bay in Accomack, Virginia. Assawoman Inlet is situated nearby to the hamlet Persimmon Point, as well as near Modest Town.

Type: Bay
Description: bay in Accomack County, Virginia, United States of America
Also known as: “Assateague Channel”, “Assawaman Inlet”, and “Assowoman Inlet”
Address: VA

Places of Interest

Highlights include Assawoman and Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Launch Pad 0.

Assawoman

Island

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Assawoman is an unincorporated community in Accomack County, Virginia, United States. Its ZIP code is 23302.

Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Launch Pad 0

Industrial building

Photo: NASA, Public domain.

The Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport is a commercial space launch facility located at the southern tip of NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island in Virginia, just east of the Delmarva Peninsula and south of Chincoteague, Virginia, United States.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Modest Town and Mappsville.

Modest Town

Hamlet

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Modest Town is a census-designated place in Accomack County, Virginia, United States. Per the 2020 census, the population was 120.

Mappsville

Hamlet

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Mappsville is a census-designated place in Accomack County, Virginia, United States. Per the 2020 census, the population was 311. Wharton Place was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

Wishart

Hamlet

Wishart is an unincorporated community in Accomack County, Virginia, United States.

Assawoman Inlet

Category: body of water
Location: Accomack, Virginia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

37.81985° or 37° 49′ 12″ north

Longitude

-75.5027° or 75° 30′ 10″ west

Elevation

-7 feet (-2 metres)

Open location code

8796RF9W+WW

OpenStreetMap ID

node 368940002

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=bay

GeoNames ID

4744968

Wikidata ID

Q49373078

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Satellite Map

Discover Assawoman Inlet from above in high-definition satellite imagery.

In Other Languages

“Assawoman Inlet” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Assawoman Inlet”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Persimmon Point and South Point.

Notable Places Nearby

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