Chesapeake, Virginia: Difference between revisions

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Chesapeake is included in the [[Hampton Roads|Hampton Roads metropolitan area]]. One of the cities in the [[South Hampton Roads]], Chesapeake was organized in 1963 by voter referendums approving the political consolidation of the [[South Norfolk, Virginia|city of South Norfolk]] with the remnants of the former [[Norfolk County, Virginia|Norfolk County]], which dated to 1691. (Much of the territory of the county had been annexed by other cities.) Chesapeake is the second-largest city by land area in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the [[List of United States cities by area|17th-largest in the United States]].

==History==

[[Image:Norfolk.jpg|upright=1.2|left|thumb|[[Norfolk County, Virginia]] (from 1895 map), existed from 1691 to 1963, now extinct]]

 

Formed in 1691 in the [[Virginia Colony]], Norfolk County had originally included essentially all the area which became the towns and later cities of [[Norfolk, Virginia|Norfolk]], [[Portsmouth, Virginia|Portsmouth]], and South Norfolk. Its area was reduced after 1871 as these cities added territory through annexations. Becoming an independent city was a method for the former county to stabilize borders with neighbors, as cities could not annex territory from each other.

 

 

The consolidation that resulted in the city of Chesapeake was part of a wave of changes in the structure of local government in [[Hampton Roads|southeastern Virginia]] which took place between 1952 and 1975.

Chesapeake made national headlines in 2003 when, under a court-ordered [[change of venue]], the community hosted the first trial of alleged [[Beltway sniper attacks|Beltway sniper]] [[Lee Boyd Malvo]] for shootings in 2002. A jury convicted him of murder but spared him a potential [[capital punishment|death sentence]]; it chose a sentence of "life in prison without parole" for the young man, who was 17 years old at the time of the crime spree. A jury in neighboring Virginia Beach convicted his older partner [[John Allen Muhammad]] and sentenced him to death for another of the attacks.

 

 

==Geography==

The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters. According to the [[Köppen Climate Classification]] system, Chesapeake has a [[humid subtropical climate]], abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.weatherbase.com/weather/weather-summary.php3?s=291844&cityname=Chesapeake%2C+Virginia%2C+United+States+of+America&units=|title=Chesapeake, Virginia Köppen Climate Classification (Weatherbase)|work=Weatherbase|access-date=21 May 2016}}</ref>

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[[File:USA Chesapeake city, Virginia age pyramid.svg|left|thumb|Age distribution in Chesapeake]]

 

===2020 census===

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|[[Non-Hispanic or Latino whites|Non-Hispanic White]] alone (NH)

|134,251

|60.42%

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|[[Non-Hispanic or Latino African Americans|Black or African American]] alone (NH)

|65,204

|29.34%

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|[[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] or [[Alaska Native]] alone (NH)

|720

|0.32%

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|[[Asian Americans|Asian]] alone (NH)

|6,289

|2.83%

|-

|[[Pacific Islander Americans|Pacific Islander]] alone (NH)

|147

|0.07%

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|Some Other Race alone (NH)

|266

|0.12%

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|5,626

|2.53%

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|[[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic or Latino]] (any race)

|9,706

|4.37%

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|'''Total'''

|'''222,209'''

|'''100.00%'''

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===2010 census===

There were 69,900 households, out of which 41.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 59.7% were [[Marriage|married couples]] living together, 14.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 22.5% were non-families. 18.0% of all households were made up of individuals, and 5.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.79 and the average family size was 3.17.

 

 

The median income for a household in the city was $50,743, and the median income for a family was $56,302. Males had a median income of $39,204 versus $26,391 for females. The [[per capita income]] for the city was $20,949. About 6.1% of families and 7.3% of the population were below the [[poverty line]], including 9.7% of those under age 18 and 9.0% of those age 65 or over.

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}}</ref> Chesapeake is also served by several television stations. The Hampton Roads [[designated market area]] (DMA) is the 42nd largest in the U.S. with 712,790 homes (0.64% of the total U.S.).<ref name="nielsen">Holmes, Gary. "[http://www.nielsenmedia.com/nc/portal/site/Public/menuitem.55dc65b4a7d5adff3f65936147a062a0/?vgnextoid=6573d3b8b0c3d010VgnVCM100000ac0a260aRCRD# Nielsen Reports 1.1% increase in U.S. Television Households for the 2006-2007 Season] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090705100549/http://www.nielsenmedia.com/nc/portal/site/Public/menuitem.55dc65b4a7d5adff3f65936147a062a0/?vgnextoid=6573d3b8b0c3d010VgnVCM100000ac0a260aRCRD%23 |date=July 5, 2009 }}." ''[[Nielsen Media Research]].'' September 23, 2006. Retrieved on September 28, 2007.</ref> The major network television affiliates are [[WTKR-TV]] 3 ([[Columbia Broadcasting Service|CBS]]), [[WAVY]] 10 ([[NBC]]), [[WVEC-TV]] 13 ([[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]), [[WGNT]] 27 ([[The CW Television Network|CW]]), [[WTVZ]] 33 ([[MyNetworkTV]]), [[WVBT]] 43 ([[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]]), and [[WPXV]] 49 ([[ION Television]]). The [[Public Broadcasting Service]] station is [[WHRO-TV]] 15. Chesapeake residents also can receive independent stations, such as [[WSKY-TV|WSKY]] broadcasting on channel 4 from the Outer Banks of North Carolina and [[WGBS-LD]] broadcasting on channel 11 from [[Hampton, Virginia|Hampton]]. Chesapeake is served by [[Cox Communications]] which provides [[LNC 5]], a local 24-hour [[United States cable news|cable news]] television network.

 

==Politics==

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Chesapeake is served by the nearby [[Norfolk International Airport]] in the [[Norfolk, Virginia|City of Norfolk]] with [[airline|commercial airline]] passenger service.

 

 

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Water and sewer services are provided by the city's Department of Utilities. Chesapeake receives its electricity from [[Dominion Virginia Power]] which has local sources including the Chesapeake Energy Center (a coal-fired and gas power plant), coal-fired plants in the city and [[Southampton County, Virginia|Southampton County]], and the Surry Nuclear Power Plant. Norfolk headquartered [[AGL Resources#Virginia Natural Gas|Virginia Natural Gas]], a subsidiary of [[AGL Resources]], distributes [[natural gas]] to the city from storage plants in [[James City County]] and in the city.

 

 

The city provides wastewater services for residents and transports wastewater to the regional Hampton Roads Sanitation District treatment plants.<ref name="HRSD">{{cite web|title=Hampton Roads Sanitation District|url=http://www.hrsd.state.va.us/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20121224132939/http://www.hrsd.state.va.us/|archive-date=2012-12-24|access-date=2008-03-08|publisher=Hampton Roads Sanitation District}}</ref>

* [[Grant Holloway]], 110 m hurdle world champion

* [[Patrick Jones II]], professional football player

* [[Ashton Lewis Jr.]] [[NASCAR]] driver

* [[Mizkif]], [[Twitch (service)|Twitch]] streamer

* [[Omos]], former college basketball player, professional wrestler for [[WWE]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sportskeeda.com/wwe/wwe-superstar-omos-6-things-probably-know-jordan-omogbehin/3|title=WWE Superstar Omos – 6 things you probably didn't know about Jordan Omogbehin|last=Akber|first=Ali|date=April 13, 2021|website=Sportskeeda.com|access-date=October 29, 2022}}</ref>

* [[Darren Perry]], professional NFL football player and NFL professional coach

* [[Chris Richardson]], singer

* [[Ricky Rudd]], [[NASCAR]] driver

* [[Club Lake Ahoy]]

* [[Chesapeake Tribe]]

* [[List of famous people from Hampton Roads]]

* [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Chesapeake, Virginia]]

* [[Mayoral elections in Chesapeake, Virginia]]

 

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