Mosquito Creek is a stream in
Chincoteague,
Virginia
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that connects with
Cockle Creek to the south and a mouth at
Chincoteague Bay
Chincoteague Bay () is a lagoon between the Atlantic barrier islands of Assateague and Chincoteague and the mainland of Worcester County, Maryland and northern Accomack County, Virginia. At the bay's northern end, where it narrows between Assatea ...
to the North.
History
The name of the creek first appeared in the ''
Decisions of the United States Board on Geographical Names'' in 1943.
[Topping, Mary, comp., ''Approved Place Names in Virginia: An Index to Virginia Names Approved by the United States Board on Geographic Names through 1969'' (Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1971), 105.]
See also
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List of Virginia rivers
This is a list of rivers in the U.S. state of Virginia.
By drainage basin
This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries, arranged in the order of their confluence from mouth to source, indented under each larger stream's nam ...
References
Chincoteague, Virginia
Rivers of Accomack County, Virginia
Rivers of Virginia
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