![]() Several versions are recorded, and it is the subject of popular speculation locally. The source of the name "Newport News" is not known with certainty, though it is the oldest English city name in the Americas. The original area near the mouth of the James River was first referred to as Newportes Newes as early as 1621. Part of the Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport is in the city limits. Served by major east–west Interstate Highway 64, it is linked to other cities of Hampton Roads by the circumferential Hampton Roads Beltway, which crosses the harbor on two bridge-tunnels. Newport News also serves as a junction between the rails and the sea with the Newport News Marine Terminals located at the East End of the city. The location on the harbor and along the James River facilitates a large boating industry which can take advantage of its many miles of waterfront. Air Force– Army installation at Joint Base Langley–Eustis, and other military bases and suppliers, the city's economy is very connected to the military. With many residents employed at the expansive Newport News Shipbuilding, the joint U.S. The more widely known name of Newport News was selected as they formed what was then Virginia's third largest independent city in population. ![]() In 1958, by mutual consent by referendum, Newport News was consolidated with the former Warwick County (itself a separate city from 1952 to 1958), rejoining the two localities to approximately their pre-1896 geographic size. In 1896, the new incorporated town of Newport News, which had briefly replaced Denbigh as the seat of Warwick County, had a population of 9,000. Within a few years, Huntington and his associates also built a large shipyard. With the new railroad came a terminal and coal piers where the colliers were loaded. Huntington, whose new Peninsula Extension of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway from Richmond opened up means of transportation along the Peninsula and provided a new pathway for the railroad to bring West Virginia bituminous coal to port for coastal shipping and worldwide export. In 1881, fifteen years of rapid development began under the leadership of Collis P. ![]() Warwick County was one of the eight original shires of Virginia, formed by the House of Burgesses in the British Colony of Virginia by order of King Charles I in 1634. The area now known as Newport News was once a part of Warwick County. It is at the southeastern end of the Virginia Peninsula, on the northern shore of the James River extending southeast from Skiffe's Creek along many miles of waterfront to the river's mouth at Newport News Point on the harbor of Hampton Roads. Newport News is included in the Hampton Roads metropolitan area. Located in the Hampton Roads region, it is the 6th most populous city in Virginia and 140th most populous city in the United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 186,247. Newport News is an independent city in the U.S. ![]()
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