Suffolk, Virginia Suffolk, Virginia A view of North Main Street in downtown Suffolk, Virginia A view of North Main Street in downtown Suffolk, Virginia Official seal of Suffolk, Virginia Suffolk, Virginia is positioned in the US Suffolk, Virginia - Suffolk, Virginia Suffolk is an autonomous town/city located in the U.S.
As of the 2014 census, the estimated populace was 86,806 It is the biggest city in Virginia by region as well as the 14th biggest in the country.
Suffolk is positioned in the Hampton Roads urbane region which also contains the autonomous metros/cities of Chesapeake, Hampton, Newport News, Norfolk, Portsmouth, and Virginia Beach, as well as other lesser cities, counties, and suburbs of Hampton Roads.
With miles of coastline property on the Nansemond and James River, present day Suffolk was formed in 1974 after consolidating with Nansemond County and the suburbs of Holland and Whaleyville.
Main article: History of Suffolk, Virginia Suffolk was established by English colonists in 1742 as a port town on the Nansemond River in the Virginia Colony.
Originally known as Constant's Warehouse, for John Constant, Suffolk was retitled after Royal Governor William Gooch's home of Suffolk, a county in East Anglia, England.
Early in its history, Suffolk became a territory transportation gateway to the areas east of it in South Hampton Roads.
Before the American Civil War, both the Portsmouth and Roanoke Railroad and the Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad were assembled through Suffolk, early predecessors of 21st century Class 1 barns s directed by CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern, in the order given.
In 1910, it incorporated as a town/city and separated from Nansemond County.
However, it remained the seat of Nansemond County until 1972, when its former county became the autonomous town/city of Nansemond.
In 1974, the autonomous metros/cities of Suffolk and Nansemond consolidated under Suffolk's name and charter.
Peanuts grown in the encircling areas became a primary industry for Suffolk.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 429 square miles (1,110 km2), of which 400 square miles (1,000 km2) is territory and 29 square miles (75 km2) (6.7%) is water. It is the biggest city in Virginia by territory area and second-largest by total area.
As of 2005, the city's median income jumped to $60,484 due to the influx of government-related high-tech jobs in the city's northern corridor and wealthy residents, causing it to be a close second to its neighbor Chesapeake in South Hampton Roads. The town/city was hit by an EF3 tornado which produced a large swath of extensive damage through the town/city and close-by communities amid the late afternoon of April 28, 2008. After 4:00 PM EDT on April 28, a tornado touched down multiple times, causing damage and leaving over 200 injured in Suffolk along a path which passed north and west of the downtown region striking near Sentara Obici Hospital and in the unincorporated town of Driver.
Police officers and firefighters from athwart Hampton Roads were sent to Suffolk to help in the quarantine and cleanup of the damaged areas.
Main article: Suffolk City Public Schools Suffolk Public Schools, the small-town enhance school system, operates 12 elementary schools, four middle schools, three high schools, and one alternative school.
Suffolk's early expansion was fueled by its locale and transit considerations.
Next to to Suffolk is Smithfield, where a town/city facility called Nike Park contains a bike trail roughly 2 1 2 miles in a loop.
Today, Suffolk is served by three freight barns s, and is positioned on a potential line for high speed traveler rail service between Richmond and South Hampton Roads being studied by the Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation.
Interstate 664, part of the Hampton Roads Beltway, crosses through the northeastern edge of the city.
In 2006, Suffolk assumed control of its road fitness from the Virginia Department of Transportation, which is customary among Virginia's autonomous cities, although since the Byrd Road Act of 1932 created Virginia's Secondary Roads System, which maintains the roads in most counties and town.
An exception was made by the General Assembly when the former Nansemond County became an autonomous town/city and merged Suffolk in the 1970s.
The state still maintained the major and secondary routes in Suffolk until July 1, 2006.
The Monitor Merrimac Memorial Bridge Tunnel joins Suffolk to the autonomous town/city of Newport News on the Virginia Peninsula from South Hampton Roads and is part of the Hampton Roads Beltway, a circumferential interstate highway which links the seven biggest cities of Hampton Roads.
There have been conflicts with VDOT and the town/city over ownership and responsibility for the about 1928 Kings Highway Bridge athwart the Nansemond River on State Route 125, which was closed in 2005 by VDOT for safety reasons. About 3,300 motorists a day used the bridge that connected Chuckatuck and Driver.
As part of the Suffolk 2026 Comprehensive Plan, the town/city plans to bypass the crossroads improve of Whaleyville in southwestern Suffolk City.
In undivided times, Suffolk remains a primary peanut refining center and barns and highway transit hub.
Each fall since 1977, the City of Suffolk hosts Suffolk Festivals Incorporated's annual Peanut Fest.
Other large employers in the City of Suffolk include Unilever, Lipton Tea, Wal-Mart, Target, QVC, and two primary modeling and simulation companies, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon.
The announcement led to speculation about what impact the loss of JFCOM would have on the Hampton Roads economy in general and (more specifically) the sustainment of businesses positioned in the Harborview section of Suffolk.
In August 2011 JFCOM was disestablished; many critical JFCOM functions like joint training, joint exercises and joint evolution were retained in the buildings vacated by JFCOM in north Suffolk under the auspices of the Joint Staff J7 Directorate, alluded to as either "Pentagon South" or "Joint and Coalition Warfighting".
Suffolk's everyday newspapers are the small-town Suffolk News-Herald, the Virginian-Pilot from Norfolk and the Daily Press of Newport News.
Other papers include the New Journal and Guide, and Inside Business. Coastal Virginia Magazine serves as a bi-monthly county-wide magazine for Suffolk and the Hampton Roads area. Hampton Roads Times serves as an online periodical for all the Hampton Roads metros/cities and counties.
Suffolk is served by a range of airways broadcasts on the AM and FM dials, with towers positioned around the Hampton Roads area. Suffolk inhabitants also can receive autonomous stations, such as WSKY transmitting on channel 4 from the Outer Banks of North Carolina and WGBS-LD transmitting on channel 11 from Hampton.
Suffolk is served by Charter Communications. The City of Suffolk Media & Community Relations Department operates Municipal Channel 8 on the small-town Charter Cable tv system.
Programming contains tv coverage of many City activities and affairs, including live Government-access tv (GATV) broadcasts of all regular City Council meetings, and special features including "On The Scene", "Suffolk Seniorcize", and "Suffolk Business Today".
Suffolk is split politically into seven boroughs, one corresponding to the former town/city of Suffolk and one corresponding to each of the six magisterial districts of the former Nansemond County. The boroughs are Chuckatuck, Cypress, Holy Neck, Nansemond, Sleepy Hole, Suffolk, and Whaleyville. In 1981, Suffolk County, England became Suffolk's first sister town/city as a result of the personal interest in the Sister Cities concept by Virginia's Governor, Mills E.
A indigenous of the city, Governor Godwin believed that Sister Cities would benefit the improve culturally and educationally.
Suffolk's second sister town/city relationship with Oderzo, Italy, began in 1995 because of one man, Amedeo Obici.
Suffolk Sister Cities International, Inc.
(SSCI) is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit established to promote global relationships as directed by Suffolk City Council through its assigned Suffolk Sister Cities Commission.
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