Sewells Point
Sewells Point is a peninsula of land in the independent city of Norfolk, Virginia in the United States, located at the mouth of the salt-water port of Hampton Roads.- Type: Cape
- Description: human settlement in Norfolk, Virginia, United States of America
- Also known as: “Mister Sewell’s Point”, “Point Sowell”, “Pointe Sowell”, “Seawells Point”, “Sewall Point”, “Sewalls Point”, “Sewell Point”, “Sewell’s Point”, “Sowells Point”, and “Sowels Point”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fort Monroe and Kecoughtan.
Fort Monroe
Suburb
Kecoughtan
Neighborhood
In the seventeenth century, Kecoughtan was the name of the settlement now known as Hampton, Virginia. 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. Kecoughtan is situated 4½ miles north of Sewells Point.
Wythe
Suburb
Wythe is a neighborhood in Hampton, Virginia, along the water's edge of Hampton Roads, at the end of Virginia's Lower Peninsula. It is named after one of the signers of the United States Declaration of Independence, George Wythe. Wythe is situated 4½ miles northwest of Sewells Point.
Sewells Point
- Categories: neighborhood and landform
- Location: Norfolk, Virginia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
36.95459° or 36° 57′ 17″ north
Longitude
-76.32751° or 76° 19′ 39″ west
Elevation
3 feet (1 metre)
United Nations Location Code
US S5T
Open location code
8785XM3C+RX
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Portuguese—“Sewells Point” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نقطة سيويل”
- Dutch: “Sewell’s Point”
- Hebrew: “סואל’ס פוינט”
- Portuguese: “Sewell’s Point”
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