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Colonial Heights

Colonial Heights

Colonial Heights is an independent city in the Commonwealth of . As of the 2020 census, the population was 18,170. The Bureau of Economic Analysis combines the City of Colonial Heights with for statistical purposes.
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  • Type: Town with 17,400 residents
  • Description: independent city in Virginia, United States
  • Also known as: “Colonial Heights, VA” and “Colonial Heights, Virginia”
  • Postal code: 23834
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Petersburg station and City Market.

Railway station
Photo: CZmarlin, Public domain.
is an Amtrak railroad station located in , just outside the city of . The station, adjacent to the campus of Virginia State University, is served by five Amtrak routes: the Carolinian, Floridian, Northeast Regional, Palmetto, and Silver Meteor.

Marketplace
Photo: Smallbones, Public domain.
, also known as Farmers Market, is an historic public market located at 9 East Old Street in , . It was built in 1878–1879 through a land given in trust by merchant Robert Balling. is situated 1½ miles south of Colonial Heights.

Museum
Photo: Alexiskferia, Public domain.
Farmers' Bank is the first bank museum of its kind found in . Farmers' Bank was incorporated in 1812 and the branch opened in 1817. is situated 1½ miles south of Colonial Heights.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Pocahontas Island and Ettrick.

Neighborhood
Photo: Taber Andrew Bain, CC BY 2.0.
is a peninsula in , once on the opposite side of the from Petersburg. Since 1915 a new channel for the river separated it from and the former channel no longer separates it from the city.

Village
Photo: Jweaver28, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a census-designated place in , United States. Per the 2020 census, the population was 7,241. The town is home to Virginia State University and the Petersburg Amtrak train station.

Photo: Ken Lund, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is an independent city in the U.S. state of . As of the 2020 census, the population was 33,458 with a majority black American population.

Colonial Heights

Latitude
37.25557° or 37° 15′ 20″ north
Longitude
-77.4112° or 77° 24′ 40″ west
Population
17,400
Elevation
95 feet (29 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US CNJ
Open location code
87947H4Q+6G
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158222417
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4753671
Wiki­data ID
Q501789
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Colonial Heights” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كولونيل هايتس”
  • Basque: “Colonial Heights city konderria”
  • Basque: “Colonial Heights”
  • Bavarian: “Colonial Heights City”
  • Bavarian: “Colonial Heights, Virginia”
  • Bishnupriya: “কোলনিয়েল হাইটস সিটি, ভার্জিনিয়া”
  • Bishnupriya: “কোলনিয়েল হাইটস সিটি”
  • Catalan: “Colonial Heights”
  • Cebuano: “Colonial Heights”
  • Chechen: “Колониал-Гайтс”
  • Chinese: “科洛尼尔海茨”
  • Chinese: “科洛尼爾海茨”
  • Czech: “Colonial Heights”
  • Dutch: “Colonial Heights”
  • Esperanto: “Colonial Heights (Virginio)”
  • Esperanto: “Colonial Heights”
  • Finnish: “Colonial Heights”
  • French: “Colonial Heights”
  • French: “Municipalité de Colonial Heights”
  • Galician: “Colonial Heights”
  • German: “Colonial Heights”
  • Gilaki: “کؤلؤنيال هایتس (ويرجينيا)”
  • Gilaki: “کؤلؤنيال هایتس”
  • Haitian: “Colonial Heights, Vijini”
  • Haitian: “Colonial Heights”
  • Irish: “Colonial Heights”
  • Italian: “Colonial Heights”
  • Japanese: “コロニアルハイツ”
  • Ladin: “Colonial Heights”
  • Low German: “Colonial Heights”
  • Malagasy: “Colonial Heights, Virginia”
  • Malagasy: “Colonial Heights”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Colonial Heights”
  • Norwegian: “Colonial Heights”
  • Persian: “کولونیال هایتز”
  • Persian: “کولونیال هایتس، ویرجینیا”
  • Persian: “کولونیال هایتس”
  • Polish: “Colonial Heights”
  • Portuguese: “Colonial Heights”
  • Russian: “Колониал-Хайтс”
  • Serbian: “Колонијал Хајтс”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Colonial Heights, Virginia”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Colonial Heights”
  • Slovak: “Colonial Heights”
  • Spanish: “Colonial Heights (Virginia)”
  • Spanish: “Colonial Heights”
  • Swedish: “Colonial Heights, Virginia”
  • Swedish: “Colonial Heights”
  • Talysh: “Kolonial Hajts”
  • Tatar: “Колониал-Гайтс”
  • Turkish: “Colonial Heights, Virginia”
  • Turkish: “Colonial Heights”
  • Ukrainian: “Колоніал-Гайтс”
  • Urdu: “کولونیل ہائٹس، ورجینیا”
  • Urdu: “کولونیل ہائٹس”
  • Vietnamese: “Colonial Heights, Virginia”
  • Vietnamese: “Colonial Heights”
  • Volapük: “Colonial Heights”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Colonial Heights, Virginia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Colonial Heights”
  • “Colonial Heights”

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Colonial Heights Fire Department Station 1 and Colonial Heights Police Department.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Colonial Heights”. Photo: Mojo Hand, CC BY-SA 4.0.