Chesapeake Map Art

Chesapeake's map shows a city built across two distinct watersheds: the Elizabeth River drains the northern urban core, while the Western Branch and Southern Branch define the southern half. The city spreads across 340 square miles of former Norfolk County territory, with I-64 cutting east-west and I-464 looping north, fragmenting the landscape into separate commercial and residential districts. Vast stretches of the southern reaches remain rural—creeks, farmland, and preserved woodland interrupt the sprawl, making Chesapeake less a unified city on the map than a collection of separated communities.

36.7682° N, 76.2875° W