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Poquoson city, Virginia

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1975formed

12,460pop. 2020

4cemeteries

1CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

No National Register listings were found for this county in the current NPS dataset.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

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National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

No listings found in the current NPS dataset.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Poquoson (Ic) was formed in 1975 (1975-05-01) from unknown / original county.

Poquoson made an independent city from YORK.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Poquoson city population from 1980 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1980	2000	2020
8,726	11,566	12,460

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

4 cemeteries and 1 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 4 of 4 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Eastern Cemetery	37.12378	-76.33251
Emmaus Cemetery	37.13755	-76.39888
Trinity Cemetery	37.12251	-76.34673
Weston Cemetery	37.11251	-76.3436

Historical populated places — 1 of 1

Name	Lat	Lon
Messick	37.12237	-76.33355

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Civil War battlefields nearby

ABPP

American Battlefield Protection Program (ABPP) Civil War study areas near this county.

Battlefield	Study acres	Dist.	Site ID
Big Bethel	886	12.7 km	VA003

Source: NPS American Battlefield Protection Program Civil War Study Areas (public ArcGIS feature service).

Historical markers

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