One of the cities in the South Hampton Roads, Chesapeake Virginia was organized in 1963 by voter referendums approving the political consolidation of the city of South Norfolk with the remnants of the former Norfolk County, which dated to 1691.
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Chesapeake Virginia is a diverse city in which a few urban areas are located; it has many square miles of protected farmland, forests, and wetlands, including a substantial portion of the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge.
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In 2011, Chesapeake Virginia was named the 21st best city in the United States by Bloomberg Businessweek.
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Chesapeake Virginia is home to the international Headquarters for Dollar Tree.
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Consolidation that resulted in the city of Chesapeake was part of a wave of changes in the structure of local government in southeastern Virginia which took place between 1952 and 1975.
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Chesapeake Virginia region was among the first areas settled in the state's colonial era, when settlement started from the coast.
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Until the late 1980s and early 1990s, much of Chesapeake was either suburban or rural, serving as a bedroom community of the adjacent cities of Norfolk and Virginia Beach with residents commuting to these locations.
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Chesapeake Virginia made national headlines in 2003 when, under a court-ordered change of venue, the community hosted the first trial of alleged Beltway sniper Lee Boyd Malvo for shootings in 2002.
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Chesapeake Virginia is served by a variety of radio stations on the AM and FM dials, with towers located around the Hampton Roads area.
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Chesapeake Virginia is served by Cox Communications which provides LNC 5, a local 24-hour cable news television network.
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Chesapeake Virginia has extensive frontage and port facilities on the navigable portions of the Western and Southern Branches of the Elizabeth River.
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The canal runs through Chesapeake paralleling U S Highway 17 into North Carolina and connects to Elizabeth City, North Carolina.
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Five railroads currently pass through portions of Chesapeake Virginia, and handle some intermodal traffic at port facilities on Hampton Roads and navigable portions of several of its tributary rivers.
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Chesapeake Virginia is the only locality in the Hampton Roads area with a separate bridge division.
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Chesapeake Virginia receives the majority of its water from the Northwest River in the southeastern part of the city.
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Chesapeake Virginia is a national bellwether, voting with the winner of the electoral college in every presidential election since 1972, except in 1992 and 1996.
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