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Colonial Beach

Colonial Beach, Virginia is a river and beach town located in the northwestern part of on 's Northern Neck peninsula. It is bounded by the , Monroe Bay and Monroe Creek.
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  • Type: Town with 3,660 residents
  • Description: town in Westmoreland County, Virginia, United States
  • Also known as: “Classic Shore”, “Colonial Beach, VA”, “Colonial Beach, Virginia”, “Irish Neck”, “Las Vegas on the Potomac”, “Millville”, and “White Beach”
  • Postal code: 22443

Places of Interest

Highlights include Colonial Beach High School and Bell House.

School
is a public high school located in , United States. The school has an enrollment of approximately 240 students.

Guest house
Photo: Suzyramble, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, also known as the summer home of Alexander Graham Bell, is a historic home located at Colonial Beach, . It is a 2+1⁄2-story, five-bay Stick Style frame dwelling originally built between 1883 and 1885 for Helen and Colonel J.O.P Burnside.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Monroe Hall and Potomac Beach.

Hamlet
Photo: Ser Amantio di Nicolao, CC BY 3.0.
is an unincorporated community in , , United States. The site of James Monroe's birthplace is located in the community, and is marked with an obelisk, a historical marker, and a bronze plaque.

Neighborhood
is an unincorporated community in , in the U. S. state of .

Hamlet
is an unincorporated community in , in the U. S. state of . is situated 2½ miles southwest of Colonial Beach.

Colonial Beach

Latitude
38.2513° or 38° 15′ 5″ north
Longitude
-76.9628° or 76° 57′ 46″ west
Population
3,660
Elevation
10 feet (3 metres)
Open location code
87C5722P+GV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158313057
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4753654
Wiki­data ID
Q1110876
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Colonial Beach” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كولونيال”
  • Basque: “Colonial Beach”
  • Catalan: “Colonial Beach”
  • Cebuano: “Colonial Beach”
  • Chechen: “Колони-Бич”
  • Chinese: “Colonial Beach”
  • Chinese: “殖民海滩”
  • Dutch: “Colonial Beach (Virginia)”
  • Dutch: “Colonial Beach”
  • French: “Colonial Beach (Virginie)”
  • French: “Colonial Beach”
  • German: “Colonial Beach”
  • Gilaki: “کؤلؤنیال بیچ (ويرجينيا)”
  • Gilaki: “کؤلؤنیال بیچ”
  • Haitian: “Colonial Beach, Vijini”
  • Haitian: “Colonial Beach”
  • Hebrew: “קולוניאל ביץ‘”
  • Hungarian: “Colonial Beach”
  • Italian: “Colonial Beach”
  • Ladin: “Colonial Beach”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Colonial Beach”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Colonial Beach”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Colōnustrand”
  • Polish: “Colonial Beach”
  • Portuguese: “Colonial Beach (Virgínia)”
  • Portuguese: “Colonial Beach”
  • Russian: “Колониал-Бич”
  • Serbian: “Колонијал Бич”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Colonial Beach, Virginia”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Colonial Beach”
  • Spanish: “Colonial Beach (Virginia)”
  • Spanish: “Colonial Beach”
  • Swedish: “Colonial Beach”
  • Tatar: “Колония-Бич”
  • Ukrainian: “Колонія-Біч”
  • Uzbek: “Colonial Beach”
  • Volapük: “Colonial Beach (VA)”
  • Volapük: “Colonial Beach (Virginia)”
  • Volapük: “Colonial Beach, VA”
  • Volapük: “Colonial Beach, Virginia”
  • Volapük: “Colonial Beach”
  • Welsh: “Colonial Beach, Virginia”
  • Welsh: “Colonial Beach”

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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 Beach”. Photo: Ser Amantio di Nicolao, CC BY-SA 3.0.