Find the word definition

Gazetteer
Crozet, VA -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Virginia
Population (2000): 2820
Housing Units (2000): 1041
Land area (2000): 3.731626 sq. miles (9.664867 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.004114 sq. miles (0.010656 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.735740 sq. miles (9.675523 sq. km)
FIPS code: 20560
Located within: Virginia (VA), FIPS 51
Location: 38.069922 N, 78.701576 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Crozet, VA
Crozet
Wikipedia
Crozet

Crozet may refer to:

  • Crozet Islands, a sub- antarctic archipelago of small islands in the southern Indian Ocean, part of the French Southern Territories
  • Crozet, a commune of the Ain département, in France
  • Crozet, Virginia, a town in state of Virginia, the United States.
  • Benoit Claudius Crozet, educator and civil engineer (1789-1864).

Usage examples of "crozet".

They had done this before the sad day off the Crozets, and the sum was still much the same, amounting to the kedge alone and just enough cablets and hawsers to veer out a reasonable scope.

It started in a humble tim­ber-frame house in the tiny town of Crozet in south-central Virginia, just east of the Shenandoah, five miles off the highway from Waynesboro to Charlottesville.

It rang in a small frame house in Crozet, south-central Vir­ginia, where the sun was low over the Blue Ridge Mountains, five hours behind Scotland.

Now known as the Crozet Islands, they form a tiny overseas territory of France.

Giordino had chartered the plane in Cape Town because the nearest NUMA research ship was more than one thousand miles away from the Crozet Islands.

In Aristide Torchia’s case, as mentioned in Crozet, the mark was a tree with one branch snapped off by lightning and a snake coiled around the trunk, devouring its own tail.

At any moment now the Crozet islands might heave in sight, and to reach them he must be able to manoeuvre the ship.