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Housing Units (2000): 3970
Land area (2000): 9.630930 sq. miles (24.943993 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 27.435331 sq. miles (71.057178 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 37.066261 sq. miles (96.001171 sq. km)
FIPS code: 16512
Located within: Virginia (VA), FIPS 51
Location: 37.934673 N, 75.367805 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 23336
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Chincoteague
Wikipedia
Chincoteague may refer to:
Geography- Chincoteague Bay, a bay on the coast of Maryland and Virginia
- Chincoteague Channel, a channel in Virginia connecting Chincoteague Bay and Chincoteague Inlet
- Chincoteague Inlet, an inlet on the coast of Virginia
- Chincoteague, Virginia, an island on the coast of Virginia, site of the town of Chincoteague
:* History of Chincoteague, Virginia, about the history of human habitation there.
- Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge, a wildlife refuge on the Virginia portion of Assateague Island
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, the name of more than one United States Coast Guard ship
- USS Chincoteague (AVP-24), a United States Navy seaplane tender in commission from 1943 to 1946
- Chincoteague Fire Department, a historic building in Chincoteague, Virginia
- Chincoteague High School, a public high school in Accomack County, Virginia
- Chincoteague Island Library, an historic building in Chincoteague, Virginia
- Chincoteague Pony, breed of wild pony living on Assateague Island in Maryland and Virginia
Chincoteague Crater is an impact crater in the Cebrenia quadrangle of Mars, located at 41.5° N and 236.0° W. It is 37.0 km in diameter and was named after a town in Virginia, USA. Along the wall of Chincoteague Crater a number of gullies are visible.
Image:Chincoteague Crater close up.jpg|Close-up of Chincoteague Crater, as seen by HiRISE. Image close up view of previous image. Note the gullies and associated landforms. Wikichincoteague.jpg|Chincoteague Crater, as seen by CTX camera (on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter). Wikichincoteaguegullies.jpg|Gullies on western wall of Chincoteague Crater, as seen by CTX camera (on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter). Note: this is an enlargement of the previous image.
Usage examples of "chincoteague".
Kate gazed down the coastline, seeing the waves break on the sandbar, her Chincoteague storm sense kicking in.
I paddled back to the beach, toweled off, and went back to Chincoteague for dinner.
Main Street toward the Chincoteague Inn, I knew it was either stop for a drink or keep on driving -straight back to Atlanta.
I drove through the deathly still streets of Chincoteague, coming-- it seemed like hours, though it was only a matter of minutes -- to the small cemetery on Church Street.
Born and raised in the sea-and-pony territory of Chincoteague, Virginia, the two girls had gone in totally different directions.
Just like that time on Chincoteague, carried by the wind, over dunes and trees and water.
Delaware-Maryland-Virginia peninsula, contiguous to Chincoteague, where the wild ponies thrived.
Stanley, in whispers upon his return from Wallops, he acknowledged that he must act quickly, and he suggested a camping trip to the undeveloped marshes east of Chincoteague, and the family responded enthusiastically.
This location lay in Virginia waters, about ninety miles east of Chincoteague Bay.
I was the only human at the best spot for shorebirds in this refuge, a spit of sand protruding from the salt marsh into one of the channels of Chincoteague Bay.
Mason usually did that, but he was off in Chincoteague, Anna happened to know, photographing herons.
My directions for codfish Chincoteague are rather vague, as Pete was in a hurry, but read between the lines.