Get an ADT-Monitored Home Security System in Chesapeake, Virginia

Chesapeake is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States. At the 2020 census, the population was 249,422, it is the second-most populous independent city in Virginia, tenth-largest in the Mid-Atlantic, and the 90th most populous city in the United States.

Chesapeake is included in the Virginia Beach–Norfolk–Newport News metropolitan area. One of the cities in the South Hampton Roads, Chesapeake was organized in 1963 by voter referendums deferential the diplomatic consolidation of the city of South Norfolk in the impression of the remnants of the former Norfolk County, which obsolescent to 1691. (Much of the territory of the county had been annexed by additional cities.) Chesapeake is the second-largest city by land area in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the 17th-largest in the United States.

Chesapeake is a diverse city in which a few urban areas are located; it moreover has many square miles of protected farmland, forests, and wetlands, including a substantial ration of the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge. Extending from the rural border with North Carolina to the harbor Place of Hampton Roads neighboring the cities of Norfolk, Portsmouth, Suffolk, and Virginia Beach, Chesapeake is located on the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway. It has miles of haven industrial, commercial and residential property.