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The Plum Tree Island National Wildlife Refuge is a National Wildlife Refuge in Poquoson, Virginia, located on the southwestern corner of the Chesapeake Bay.The 3,501-acre (14.17 km 2) refuge is located at about the midpoint of the Atlantic Flyway, and is one of four refuges that comprise the Eastern Virginia Rivers National Wildlife Refuge Complex.
The refuge includes the mouth of the Parker River, which drains the mainland on the other side of Plum Island Sound. The refuge also includes the southern three-quarters of Plum Island, an 8-mile (13 km) long barrier island off the coast of mainland Essex County. The southern tip of the island, however, belongs to Sandy Point State Reservation ...
Virginia Beach, Virginia: 1960 8,231 acres (33.31 km 2) [320] Mattamuskeet National Wildlife Refuge^^ Hyde County: 1934 50,173 acres (203.04 km 2) [321] Mountain Bogs National Wildlife Refuge: Ashe County: 2015 39 acres (0.16 km 2) [322] Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge^ Dare County: 1938 31,534 acres (127.61 km 2) [323] Pee Dee National ...
Occoneechee State Park is a state park near Clarksville, Virginia, located along Buggs Island Lake.Occoneechee State Park is 2,698 acres in size. Its name reflects the Occaneechi Indians, who lived on (and traded from) an island in the Roanoke River near its confluence with the Dan River, which was flooded by the creation of the Kerr Lake reservoir in 1952.
Sandy Point State Reservation is on a large spit of sand at the southern end of Plum Island: "Sandy Point". Plum Island Drive, a dirt road on the southern half of Plum Island, ends at the foot of a hill of glacial origin, Bar Head. Rocks: "Bar Head Rocks", extend from a 19th-century gravel pit in the side of the hill into the water.
Kiptopeke State Park is a state park located in the southern end of the Eastern Shore of Virginia and the Delmarva Peninsula in Northampton County, near Cape Charles.The park offers recreational access to the brackish waters of the Chesapeake Bay with its shoreline, beach, boat ramps and piers, as well as unique migratory bird habitat along the East Coast flyway.
Poquoson (/ p ə ˈ k oʊ s ən /), informally known as Bull Island, is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States. As of the 2020 census , the population was 12,460. [ 4 ] The Bureau of Economic Analysis combines the city of Poquoson with surrounding York County for statistical purposes.
Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation Belle Isle State Park is located in Lancaster County, Virginia , on the Rappahannock River . It sits between Deep Creek and Morattico Creek and is currently under public ownership.