Chincoteague
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town in Accomack County, Virginia, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Virginia
- County
- Accomack
- Mayor
- Denise Bowden
- Total
- 37.48 sq mi (97.07 km )
- Land
- 9.26 sq mi (23.98 km )
- Water
- 28.22 sq mi (73.09 km )
- Elevation
- 3 ft (0.91 m)
- Estimate 2019
- 2,875
- Density
- 310.5/sq mi (119.87/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern (EST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 (EDT)
- Area codes
- 757, 948
- Fips code
- 51-16512
- Website
- Official website
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Chincoteague
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Accomack County
- Population
- 3344
- Area
- 96.683301
- Elevation
- 1
- Official website
- www.chincoteague-va.gov
- Image
- ChincoteagueFishingBoats.jpg
- Households
- 1658
- Dialing code
- 757
Show 5 more facts
- postal code
- 23336
- inception
- 1908-00-00
- Commons category
- Chincoteague, Virginia
- water as percent of area
- 75.5842
- per capita income
- 42507
Sources (9)
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Encyclopedic overview
Chincoteague (/ˌʃɪŋkəˈtiːɡ/ or /ˈʃɪŋkətiːɡ/) is a town in Accomack County, Virginia, United States. The town includes the whole of Chincoteague Island and an area of adjacent water. The population was 3,344 at the 2020 census. The town is a tourist gateway to the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge on adjacent Assateague Island, the location of a popular recreational beach and home of the Virginia herd of Chincoteague Ponies. These ponies and the annual Pony Swim are the subject of Marguerite Henry's 1947 children's book Misty of Chincoteague, which was made into the 1961 family film Misty, filmed on location.
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chincoteague” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.