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Great Dismal Swamp

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Great Dismal Swamp


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The community is a mix of urban areas, forests and wetlands, including a substantial portion of the Great Dismal Swamp.
It meanders more than 300 miles from the marshes of Calabash on the South Carolina line, crossing sounds and bays, snaking up and down creeks and rivers and through ditchlike channels such as the Alligator-Pungo River Canal in Hyde County before exiting the dark, forest-lined Great Dismal Swamp Canal and parallel Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal bordering Virginia's Hampton Roads region.
The state's tally of scorched acres does not include fires on federal land in Virginia, such as the summer blaze in the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge.
 
 
 
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