Emergency Biohazard Cleanup Services in Poquoson, VA

Poquoson is an independent city on the Virginia Peninsula in the Hampton Roads metropolitan area, meaning it belongs to no county.

Poquoson is one of the oldest continuously named cities in Virginia: the name first appears in colonial records in a land grant of 500 acres in New Poquoson issued to Christopher Calthorpe on April 26, 1631.

The name Poquoson is a Native American word that roughly translates to "great marsh," describing a low, marshy place covered by water in winter but dry in summer.

Poquoson is informally known as Bull Island because for centuries local farmers let their cattle roam free in the salt marshes, and residents still call themselves Bull Islanders.

The 2020 census counted 12,460 residents in Poquoson.

Poquoson was part of York County for more than 300 years before incorporating as a town in 1952, a step residents took so they could keep their own high school open instead of having students bused to York High School.

Poquoson became an independent city in 1975, yet more than fifty years later its courts, sheriff and jail are still shared with neighboring York County.

The city encompasses about 14.7 square miles of land, of which roughly 4,398 acres are salt marsh wetlands, and it has about 89 miles of shoreline.

The Plum Tree Island National Wildlife Refuge, together with privately owned salt marsh, makes up the largest saline marsh in the lower Chesapeake Bay.

The Poquoson Museum, founded in 2003, occupies a 16-acre parcel with a circa-1900 farmhouse, agricultural outbuildings, marsh frontage on Topping Creek and the old country store known as Miss Becky's Store.