Get an ADT-Monitored Home Security System in Newport News, Virginia

Newport News is an independent city in the U.S. state of Virginia. At the 2020 census, the population was 186,247. Located in the Hampton Roads region, it is the 5th most populous city in Virginia and 140th most populous city in the United States.

Newport News is included in the Hampton Roads metropolitan area. It is at the southeastern fall of the Virginia Peninsula, on the northern shore of the James River extending southeast from Skiffe’s Creek along many miles of marina to the river’s mouth at Newport News Point on the harbor of Hampton Roads. The Place now known as Newport News was behind a share of Warwick County. Warwick County was one of the eight indigenous shires of Virginia, formed by the House of Burgesses in the British Colony of Virginia by order of King Charles I in 1634.

In 1881, fifteen years of sudden development began under the leadership of Collis P. Huntington, whose new Peninsula Extension of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway from Richmond opened in the works means of transportation along the Peninsula and provided a supplementary pathway for the railroad to bring West Virginia bituminous coal to harbor for coastal shipping and worldwide export. With the other railroad came a terminal and coal piers where the colliers were loaded. Within a few years, Huntington and his friends also built a large shipyard. In 1896, the new incorporated town of Newport News, which had briefly replaced Denbigh as the chair of Warwick County, had a population of 9,000. In 1958, by mutual comply by referendum, Newport News was consolidated bearing in mind the former Warwick County (itself a separate city from 1952 to 1958), rejoining the two localities to nearly their pre-1896 geographic size. The more widely known name of Newport News was agreed as they formed what was subsequently Virginia’s third largest independent city in population.