Crossword clues for chesapeake
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
from an Algonquian language, perhaps literally "great shellfish bay." Early spellings include Chesepiooc and Chesupioc.
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 441
Land area (2000): 0.552602 sq. miles (1.431233 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.031996 sq. miles (0.082869 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.584598 sq. miles (1.514102 sq. km)
FIPS code: 13904
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 38.428066 N, 82.454832 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 45619
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Headwords:
Chesapeake
Housing Units (2000): 72672
Land area (2000): 340.718739 sq. miles (882.457445 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 10.180555 sq. miles (26.367516 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 350.899294 sq. miles (908.824961 sq. km)
FIPS code: 16000
Located within: Virginia (VA), FIPS 51
Location: 36.767398 N, 76.287405 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 23320 23323 23324 23325
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Headwords:
Chesapeake
Housing Units (2000): 851
Land area (2000): 0.471135 sq. miles (1.220234 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.180384 sq. miles (0.467193 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.651519 sq. miles (1.687427 sq. km)
FIPS code: 15028
Located within: West Virginia (WV), FIPS 54
Location: 38.222541 N, 81.536042 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Chesapeake
Wikipedia
Chesapeake may refer to:
- Chesapeake people, a Native American tribe also known as the Chesepian
- The Chesapeake, a.k.a. Chesapeake Bay
- Delmarva Peninsula, also known as the Chesapeake Peninsula
Chesapeake is a novel by James A. Michener, published by Random House in 1978. The story deals with several families living in the Chesapeake Bay area, from 1583 to 1978.
Chesapeake was an American bluegrass band formed in 1994 in Bethesda, Maryland as a direct offshoot from The Seldom Scene.
The Chesapeake was a daily passenger train operated by Amtrak along the Northeast Corridor between Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was one of the few commuter trains operated by Amtrak and operated from 1978 to 1983.
Chesapeake is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Rachael Yamagata. It was released on October 11, 2011 via Frankenfish Records and Megaforce Records in North America.
Usage examples of "chesapeake".
The sound yanked her out of that household chore like a bluefin tuna pulled out of the Chesapeake Bay.
The design was the one called Chesapeake Bay bugeye, which meant that she had a flat bottom, a centerboard, a rakish clipper bow, and the masts slanted back at a dashing angle.
AUSBURNE, 29OW CHATELA1N, 375 CHENANGO, 224, 23O-3I Cherbourg, 405, 409-12 Chesapeake, Capes of the, 108, 367 CHESTER, 514 CHEVALIER, 284 Chiang Kai-shek, 43-44, 568 Chicago, 142, 144, 169, 172-6, 213 Chichi Jima, 335, 514 Chickering, William, 482 CHIKUMA, 47, 195, 460-61 China, 17-18, 41, 43, 45, 100, 421 chitose, 181, 336, 437, 465 CHIYODA, 336, 437, 465, 468 CHOKAI, 168, 173-4, 188, 460-61 Christie, Rear Adm.
He even crossed to the eastern shore of the Chesapeake to visit a Quaker meeting on the Choptank before winter set in, and he describes the immense migration of wild pigeons at that season, and the ducks which flew so low and were so tame that the colonists knocked them down with sticks.
General Benjamin Butler, threatening Richmond in flank, along the lower Chesapeake, was watched by the Confederates Huger and Magruder.
This time Tedi and Edward brought down an oysterman from the Chesapeake Bay who shucked oysters right out of an ice-crammed barrel.
Lily Rigby that he came from a long line of oystermen on Chesapeake Bay.
Chesapeake Bay for testing at the Naval Air Test Center at Patuxent River.
Pope began to follow with real longing the careers of the original Sacred Seven and the new Nifty Nine, for these were men his own age, men he had flown with, men with whom he had conducted simulated dogfights in untested planes over the silvery waters of the Chesapeake or the barren flats at Edwards.
Chesapeake, Debby Dee led the Popes to one of the borrowed houses, told all the late drinkers to scram, and put the new test pilot and his beautiful Washington wife to bed.
Debby Dee said, pointing to the Popes, and for two hours they reminisced about the days at Solomons Island, the old cars, the Pax-Jax-Lax routine, the dogfights above the Chesapeake.
Later it veered more toward the east, bringing the salt scent from Chesapeake Bay and heavier rain that thrummed on the roof, splattering through the broken glass of the bedroom windows.
Chesapeake Bay and roughly equidistant from Richmond, Annapolis, Washington and Wallops Island.
At their parting, they had been standing together at Albion Landing in the south reaches of Chesapeake Bay.
In the shadows where the Forge's glow does not reach, or out uncomforted beneath the vaporous daylight of Chesapeake, bent to the day's loads of Fuel from the vanishing Hardwood Groves nearby, or breathing in the mephitic Vapors of the bloomeries, wordlessly and, as some may believe, patiently, they bide everywhere, these undeclared secular terms in the Equations of Proprietary Happiness.