Chesapeake, Virginia

Chesapeake is a diverse city in which a variety of suburban and more concentrated areas are located; it also has many square miles of protected farmland, forests, and wetlands, including a substantial portion of the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge. Extending from the rural border with North Carolina to the harbor of Hampton Roads it is adjacent to the cities of Norfolk, Portsmouth, Suffolk, and Virginia Beach. Chesapeake is located on the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway. It has miles of industrial, commercial and residential property along its waterfront.