Rip Raps Island
Rip Raps Island is an island in Virginia, South. Rip Raps Island is situated nearby to the quarter Fort Monroe, as well as near the neighborhood Willoughby Beach.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Island
- Description: shoal originally made of ballast stones dumped as sailing ships entered the harbor of Hampton, Virginia; now the site of Fort Wool
- Also known as: “Rip Rap Island”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Old Point Light and Quarters 1.
Old Point Light
Lighthouse
Photo: Acroterion, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Old Point Comfort Light is a lighthouse located on the grounds of Fort Monroe in the Virginia portion of the Chesapeake Bay. It is the second oldest light in the bay and the oldest still in use.
Quarters 1
Historic building
Photo: Amandajollota, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Quarters 1, also known as Building 1, is a historic officer's quarters located at Fort Monroe, Hampton, Virginia. The original section was built in 1819, and consists of a three-story, central block, double pile residence with flanking, two-story wings in the Federal style.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fort Monroe and Phoebus.
Fort Monroe
Quarter
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Fort Monroe is a former military installation in Hampton, Virginia, at Old Point Comfort, the southern tip of the Virginia Peninsula, United States. It is currently managed by partnership between the Fort Monroe Authority for the Commonwealth of Virginia, the National Park Service, and the city of Hampton as the Fort Monroe National Monument.
Phoebus
Suburb
Photo: Kubigula, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Phoebus is a formerly incorporated town now part of the present-day city of Hampton, Virginia, 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.
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.
Rip Raps Island
- Categories: artificial island, locality, and landform
- Location: Virginia, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
36.98451° or 36° 59′ 4″ northLongitude
-76.30234° or 76° 18′ 8″ westElevation
7 feet (2 metres)Open location code
8785XMMX+R3OpenStreetMap ID
way 639856097OpenStreetMap feature
place=island
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In Other Languages
“Rip Raps Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Rip Raps Island”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Fort Wool and Engineers Fishing Pier.
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