Cape Charles
Cape Charles is a town in Eastern Virginia, at the southern tip of the Delmarva peninsula. It used to be the terminus of the eastern shore railway and still has an operating rail-to-barge ferry terminal with freight service to Norfolk.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Dadadata, Public domain.
- Type: Town with 1,180 residents
- Description: town in Virginia, United States
- Also known as: “Accomack”, “Cape Charles, VA”, and “Cape Charles, Virginia”
- Postal code: 23310
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cape Charles Museum and Welcome Center and Palace Theatre.
Cape Charles Museum and Welcome Center
Museum
The Cape Charles Museum and Welcome Center is located at 814 Randolph Avenue, Cape Charles, Virginia, United States. The museum contains exhibits detailing the history and development of Cape Charles and the surrounding region.
Palace Theatre
Theater building
Photo: Packer1028, CC0.
The Palace Theatre is a historic movie house located at 305 Mason Avenue, Cape Charles, Virginia, United States. It currently functions as a performing arts venue.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fairview.
Fairview
Neighborhood
Fairview is an unincorporated community in Northampton County, Virginia, United States. Fairview is situated 2½ miles east of Cape Charles.
Cape Charles
- Categories: town in the United States and locality
- Location: Northampton, Virginia, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.2672° or 37° 16′ 2″ northLongitude
-76.0177° or 76° 1′ 4″ westPopulation
1,180Elevation
3 feet (1 metre)United Nations Location Code
US CCJOpen location code
87957X8J+VWOpenStreetMap ID
node 158582930OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Cape Charles” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كاب تشارليس”
- Basque: “Cape Charles”
- Catalan: “Cape Charles”
- Cebuano: “Cape Charles”
- Chechen: “Кейп-Чарлз”
- Chinese: “Cape Charles”
- Chinese: “开普查尔斯”
- Chinese: “查尔斯角”
- Chinese: “查爾斯角”
- Chinese: “開普查爾斯”
- Dutch: “Cape Charles”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كاب تشارليس”
- French: “Cape Charles”
- German: “Cape Charles”
- Gilaki: “کیپ چارلز (ويرجينيا)”
- Gilaki: “کیپ چارلز”
- Haitian: “Cape Charles, Vijini”
- Haitian: “Cape Charles”
- Hungarian: “Cape Charles”
- Italian: “Cape Charles”
- Ladin: “Cape Charles”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Cape Charles”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Cape Charles”
- Norwegian: “Cape Charles”
- Polish: “Cape Charles”
- Portuguese: “Cape Charles”
- Russian: “Кейп-Чарльз (Виргиния)”
- Russian: “Кейп-Чарльз”
- Serbian: “Кејп Чарлс”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Cape Charles, Virginia”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Cape Charles”
- Slovak: “Charlesov mys”
- Spanish: “Cape Charles”
- Tatar: “Кейп-Чарлз”
- Ukrainian: “Кейп-Чарлз”
- Uzbek: “Cape Charles”
- Uzbek: “Cапе Чарлес”
- Volapük: “Cape Charles”
- Welsh: “Cape Charles, Virginia”
- Welsh: “Cape Charles”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Cape Charles”. Photo: Dadadata, Public domain.