Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Virginia
- County
- York
- Total
- 0.6 sq mi (1.6 km )
- Land
- 0.6 sq mi (1.6 km )
- Water
- 0.0 sq mi (0 km )
- Elevation
- 13 ft (4.0 m)
- Density
- 340/sq mi (130/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-5 ( Eastern (EST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-4 (EDT)
- Zip codes
- 23690–23693
- Area codes
- 757, 948
- Fips code
- 51-88240
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Yorktown
- Population
- 221
- Area
- 1.664283
- Elevation
- 4
- Image
- Yorktown customhouse.jpg
- Households
- 157
- Dialing code
- 757
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- Commons category
- Yorktown, Virginia
- postal code
- 23693
- inception
- 1691-00-00
- water as percent of area
- 1.7336
- per capita income
- 52645
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Yorktown is a town in York County, Virginia, United States. It is the county seat of York County, one of the eight original shires formed in colonial Virginia in 1682. Yorktown's population was 221 as of the 2020 census, while York County's population was 66,134 in the 2011 census estimate.
The town is most famous as the site of the siege and subsequent surrender of General Charles Cornwallis to General George Washington and the French Fleet during the American Revolutionary War on October 19, 1781. Although the larger European war would last for another year, this British defeat at Yorktown effectively ended the war in North America. Yorktown also figured prominently in the American Civil War (1861–1865), serving as a major port to supply both northern and southern towns, depending upon who held Yorktown at the time.