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The town includes the whole of Chincoteague Island and an area of adjacent water. The population was 3,344 at the 2020 census. [5] The town is a tourist gateway to the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge on adjacent Assateague Island, [6] the location of a popular recreational beach and home of the Virginia herd of Chincoteague Ponies.
Chincoteague Island. Chincoteague is the name of a town, and the barrier island on which it is located, on Virginia's Eastern Shore, in the United States. [1] The island is about 8 miles (13 km) long and 2 miles (3.2 km) wide. Sand forms its soil, with a thin layer of loam above it away from the water, enough to support pine trees and grass. [2]
The town of Accomac serves as the county seat, while Chincoteague is the largest town in the county. [1] The area was named for the Accawmack Indians, who resided in the area when the English first explored it in 1603. The region was known as "Accomac Shire" until it was renamed Northampton County in 1642. The present Accomack County was then ...
Come early to enjoy the 34th annual Chincoteague Island Blueberry Festival on July 21-23. ... The town provides a free Pony Swim Shuttle service, beginning at 5 a.m. The Pony Shuttle runs between ...
Chincoteague Channel, a channel in Virginia connecting Chincoteague Bay and Chincoteague Inlet; Chincoteague Inlet, an inlet on the coast of Virginia; Chincoteague, Virginia, a town in Virginia; Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge, a wildlife refuge on the Virginia portion of Assateague Island
Misty hoofprints encased in concrete in front of the Island Roxy. In 1960, 20th Century Fox filmed the movie Misty on location at Chincoteague. In the same town, at the premiere of the film, in 1961, the star of the film, a Chincoteague Pony named Misty of Chincoteague marched down the aisles of the theater before the showing. [2]
The rows of folding chairs lining Main Street of the town of Chincoteague, and the meandering tracks of mud boots in the marsh of the Virginia coast tell the story of another pony pending.
At the northern end of the Atlantic side is the beach community of Chincoteague, famous for its annual wild pony roundup, gathered from Assateague Island. Wallops Flight Facility, a NASA space launch base, is located near Chincoteague. At the southern end of the Chesapeake Bay coast, the beach community of Cape Charles, a historic railroad town ...