Deep Creek, VA

Deep Creek is a former unincorporated town of the former Norfolk County which since 1963 has been located in the independent city of Chesapeake in the South Hampton Roads region of southeastern Virginia. Deep Creek is located on the original route of U.S. Highway 17, on a section now designated as U.S. Route 17 Business, and has been largely bypassed by modern highway improvements. Deep Creek was a small settlement on the edge of the Great Dismal Swamp. Deep Creek's local map joins its older history to the places and landscapes that still shape the town today, all within the wider Virginia setting. The local scoop is how Deep Creek's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the unincorporated town was a busy stage-coach stop on the road between Norfolk and Elizabeth City, North Carolina. The northern portion of the Dismal Swamp Canal connects.