Newport News is an eccentric city in a Hampton Roads civil area of Virginia. It is during a south-western finish of a Virginia Peninsula, on a north seaside of a James River unsure southeast from Skiffe's Creek along many miles of on the water to a river's mouth during Newport News Point on a bay of Hampton Roads. The area good known as Newport News was biased of Warwick County, a forlorn of a 8 bizarre shires of Virginia made by a House of Burgesses in a British Colony of Virginia by method of King Charles I in 1634. The county was mostly stoical of farms as good as underdeveloped land until dull off 250 years later. In 1881, fifteen years of bomb expansion began underneath a care of Collis P. Huntington, whose brand new Peninsula Extension of a Chesapeake as good as Ohio Railway from Richmond non-stop up transport along a Peninsula as good as assuming a brand new pathway for a tyrannise to overcome West Virginia bituminous hint to pier for coastal shipping as good as worldwide export. With a brand new tyrannise came a depot as good as hint piers where a colliers were loaded. Within a couple of years, Huntington as good as his associates additionally built a immeasurable shipyard. In 1896, a brand new unincorporated locale of Newport News, that had fast reversed Denbigh as a county chair of Warwick County, became an eccentric city, separating from a county. In 1900, 19,635 people lived in Newport News, Virginia; in 1910, 20,205; in 1920, 35,596; as good as in 1940, 37,067. In 1958, by mutual agree by referendum, Newport News was combined with a former Warwick County (itself a apart city from 1952 to 1958), rejoining a dual localities to we speculation their pre-1896 geographic size, The some-more at large good known name of Newport News was comparison as they made what was afterwards Virginia's third largest eccentric city in population. As of a 2010 census, a city competition was 180,719 ranking it as Virginia's fifth largest incorporated city by population. With many residents in make use of during a expanded Northrop Grumman Newport News Shipbuilding, a U.S. Army bottom during Fort Eustis, as good as alternative infantry bases as good as suppliers, a city's conduct to buy is really consecutive to a military. The place on a bay as good as along a James River facilitates a immeasurable boating attention that can take value of a many miles of waterfront. Newport News additionally serves as a connection in between a rails as good as a sea with a Newport News Marine Terminals located during a East End of a city. Served by critical east-west Interstate Highway 64, it is associated to others of a cities of Hampton Roads by a circumferential Hampton Roads Beltway, that crosses a bay on dual bridge-tunnels. Part of a Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport is in a city limits. The source of a name "Newport News" isn't good known with certainty. Several versions have been recorded, as good as it is subject of renouned conjecture locally. Probably a best-known reason binds that when an early classification of Jamestown colonists left to lapse to England after a Starving Time during a winter of 1609-1610 aboard a boat of Captain Christopher Newport, they encountered an additional quick of supply ships underneath a brand new Governor Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr in a James River off Mulberry Island with reinforcements of group as good as supplies. The brand new administrator one after another them to spin around, as good as lapse to Jamestown. Under this theory, a encampment was declared for Newport's "good news." Another luck is that a encampment competence have consecutive a name from an aged English word "news" definition "new town." At smallest a forlorn source claims that a "New" arose from a bizarre settlement's being made up after a fire.

Another source gave a bizarre name as "New Port Newce", declared for a chairman with a name Newce as good as a town's place as a brand new seaport. The namesake, Sir William Newce, was an English infantryman as good as creatively composed in Ireland. There he'd determined Newcestown circuitously Bandon in County Cork. Newce sailed to Virginia with Sir Francis Wyatt in October 1621 as good as was conjectural 2,500 acres (1,012 ha) of land. He died dual days later. His brother, Capt. Thomas Newce, was given "600 acres during Kequatan, right away called Elizabeth Cittie." A partner Daniel Gookin accomplished first a settlement. The actuality that a name before appeared as "Newport's News" is accurate by countless early papers as good as maps, as good as by internal tradition. The change to Newport News came about by usage, for by 1851 a Post Office Department authorised "New Port News" (three words) as a name of a first post office. In 1866 it approved a name as "Newport News", a waves form. During a 17th century, before long after first of Jamestown, Virginia in 1607, English settlers explored as good as began settling a areas diagonally conflicting to Hampton Roads. In 1610, Sir Thomas Gates "took possession" of a circuitously Native American village, that became good known as Kecoughtan. At that time, settlers began clearing land enlarged a James River (the endurable biased of that was called Hampton Roads) for plantations, together with a benefaction area of Newport News. In 1619, a area of Newport News was enclosed in a forlorn of 4 immeasurable corporations of a Virginia Company of London. It became good known as Elizabeth Cittie, as good as extended west all a approach to Skiffe's Creek (currently a extent in between Newport News as good as James City County. Elizabeth Cittie additionally enclosed all of present-day South Hampton Roads.