- Yorktown
Yorktown may refer to:
Places in the United States
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Yorktown, Arkansas
*Yorktown, Illinois
*Yorktown, Indiana
*Yorktown, Iowa
*Yorktown, Kentucky
*Yorktown, Maryland
*Yorktown, New Jersey
*Yorktown, New York
**Yorktown Heights, New York , a hamlet in the town of Yorktown
*Yorktown, North Carolina
*Yorktown, Ohio
*Yorktown, Philadelphia , Pennsylvania, a neighborhood
*Yorktown, Texas
*Yorktown, Virginia
**TheSiege of Yorktown , the concluding battle of the American Revolutionary War
**Naval Weapons Station Yorktown , an important U.S. Navy facility
**Yorktown Day , an annual festival in Yorktown, Virginia"See also:":*
York (disambiguation) :*Yorkville Vessels
Ships of the
United States Navy , commemorating the Siege of Yorktown:* USS "Yorktown" (1839), a 16-gun ship sloop commissioned in 1840 that sunk in 1850 after hitting a reef in the Cape Verde islands
* USS "Yorktown" (1888), a gunboat, launched in 1888, commissioned in 1889, and decommissioned in 1921
* USS "Yorktown" (CV-5), an aircraft carrier commissioned in 1937, and a major combatant in World War II until she was sunk at the Battle of Midway in 1942
* USS "Yorktown" (CV-10), an aircraft carrier commissioned in 1943, a participant in World War II and the Vietnam War, decommissioned in 1970 and now a museum at Patriot's Point in Charleston Harbor, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina
* USS "Yorktown" (CG-48), a guided missile cruiser commissioned in 1984 and decommissioned in 2004Other uses
* The starship USS "Yorktown" (NCC-1717), a "Constitution" class vessel in the "Star Trek" fictional universe
ee also
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Yorktown High School , several high schools in the United States
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