Chuckatuck is a neighborhood of the
independent city of
Suffolk
Suffolk () is a ceremonial county of England in East Anglia. It borders Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south; the North Sea lies to the east. The county town is Ipswich; other important towns include Lowes ...
,
Virginia,
United States. It is located at the junction of
State Route 10/
State Route 32 and
State Route 125, just south of SR 10/32's crossing of
Chuckatuck Creek Chuckatuck Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed April 1, 2011 tributary of the James River in the U.S. state of Virginia. The creek rises in Isle of Wight County and ...
. Its elevation is 36 feet
above mean sea level. The neighborhood is relatively small and consists of such businesses as a garden store, general store, automobile repair shop, three churches, two gas stations, a restaurant, a hardware store, and others. It has a fire department, Suffolk station nine, which is operated as the Chuckatuck Volunteer Fire Department. The community is also located near Lone Star Lakes, a recreational park.
Former Virginia Governor
Mills Godwin and jazz guitarist
Charlie Byrd
Charlie Lee Byrd (September 16, 1925 – December 2, 1999) was an American jazz guitarist. Byrd was best known for his association with Brazilian music, especially bossa nova. In 1962, he collaborated with Stan Getz on the album '' Jazz Samba' ...
grew up in Chuckatuck.
See also
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Suffolk, Virginia
Suffolk is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and as such has no county. As of the 2020 census, the population was 94,324. It is the 9th most populous city in Virginia and the largest city in Virginia by boundary land area as ...
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Political subdivisions of Virginia#Boroughs
References
Chuckatuck, VA Community Profile
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Boroughs of Suffolk, Virginia
Suffolk, Virginia communities
Neighborhoods in Virginia