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Phoebus

Phoebus is a formerly incorporated town now part of the present-day city of , on the Virginia Peninsula. In 1900, it was named in honor of local businessman Harrison Phoebus, who is credited with convincing the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway to extend its tracks to the town from Newport News.
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  • Type: Suburb
  • Description: unincorporated community in Elizabeth City County, Virginia, United States
  • Also known as: “Camp Hamilton”, “Chesapeake City”, “Phoebus, VA”, and “Phoebus, Virginia”

Places of Interest

Highlights include American Theater and Hampton Convocation Center.

Building
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is a building.

Stadium
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is a 7,200-seat multi-purpose arena in . It was built in 1993 and is home to the Pirates basketball team.

Cemetery
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is a United States National Cemetery in the city of . It encompasses 27.1 acres, and as of 2014, had over 30,000 interments.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Fort Monroe and Kecoughtan.

Quarter
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is a former military installation in , at , the southern tip of the Virginia Peninsula, United States. It is currently managed by partnership between the Authority for the Commonwealth of Virginia, the National Park Service, and the city of Hampton as the National Monument.

Neighborhood
In the seventeenth century, was the name of the settlement now known as . In the early twentieth century, it was also the name of a town nearby in Elizabeth City County. It was annexed into the City of Newport News in 1927.

Suburb
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is a neighborhood in the independent city of . It lies just north of on the . One of the oldest recreational areas in the state, it was long located in the former Elizabeth City County near the downtown area of the lost town of Phoebus prior to their consolidation with Hampton in 1952. is situated 2½ miles northeast of Phoebus.

Phoebus

Latitude
37.0186° or 37° 1′ 7″ north
Longitude
-76.32222° or 76° 19′ 20″ west
Elevation
3 feet (1 metre)
Open location code
87952M9H+C4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158585804
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
4778740
Wiki­data ID
Q845732
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Volapük—“Phoebus” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “فيباس”
  • Chinese: “腓比斯城”
  • Dutch: “Phoebus”
  • Esperanto: “Febo”
  • French: “Phoebus”
  • German: “Phoebus”
  • Irish: “Phoebus”
  • Italian: “Phoebus”
  • Japanese: “フォイボス”
  • Luxembourgish: “Phoebus”
  • Persian: “فیباس، ویرجینیا”
  • Persian: “فیباس”
  • Romanian: “Phoebus”
  • Volapük: “Phoebus”

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Phoebus Branch Hampton Public Library and Saint Johns Evangelical Christian.

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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 “Phoebus”. Photo: Kubigula, CC BY-SA 3.0.