Coordinates: 37°17′44″N 76°40′0.0″W / 37.29556°N 76.66667°W / 37.29556; -76.66667 Queen's Creek is located in York County in the Virginia Peninsula area of the Hampton Roads region of southeastern Virginia in the United States. From a point of origin near the Waller Mill Reservoir in western York County it flows northeasterly across the northern half of the Peninsula as a tributary of the York River.
Read more about Queen's Creek: 17th Century: Anchoring The Palisade, 19th Century: Another Defensive Line, 20th-21st Centuries
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