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Suffolk, Virginia
Suffolk, Virginia: independent city in Hampton Roads, largest Virginia city by land area (430 sq mi) after the 1974 merger with Nansemond County; population 104,699 (2025 est.), historic peanut and Planters company center.
Summerville, South Carolina
Summerville, known as the "Flower Town in the Pines," is a town in Dorchester County, South Carolina, and a major suburb of Charleston with a 2020 population of 50,915.
Sumter, South Carolina
Sumter, South Carolina: county seat of Sumter County, founded as Sumterville in 1800 and renamed Sumter in 1855. Home of Shaw Air Force Base (est. 1941), population 43,463 in 2020, first US city with council-manager government (1912).
Sunrise, Florida
Sunrise, Florida: Broward County city incorporated 1961 as Sunrise Golf Village, renamed 1971; home of Sawgrass Mills mall, Amerant Bank Arena, and the Florida Panthers; about 98,000 residents.
Tallahassee, Florida
Tallahassee, Florida: state capital since 1824, chosen midway between St. Augustine and Pensacola; county seat of Leon County; about 196,000 residents; home to FSU, FAMU, and the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory.
Tampa, Florida
Tampa, Florida: Gulf Coast city and Hillsborough County seat, founded from Fort Brooke in 1824, incorporated 1855. Population 384,959 (2020), metro 3.1 million; largest Florida port, MacDill AFB home of CENTCOM and SOCOM.
Tangier, Virginia
Tangier, Virginia: a town on Tangier Island in Chesapeake Bay, the last inhabited offshore island in Virginia's Bay waters. Watermen community settled 1778, site of Fort Albion (1814); uplands projected to become wetlands by 2051.
Tarpon Springs, Florida
Tarpon Springs, Florida: Gulf Coast city 30 miles north of Tampa, the "Sponge Capital of the World," founded 1875, incorporated 1887, built by Greek sponge divers, home of Florida's largest Greek Orthodox Epiphany celebration.
Titusville, Florida
Titusville, Florida: Brevard County city on the Indian River Lagoon, founded 1867 by Colonel Henry Titus, incorporated 1887, population about 49,800 (2025), gateway to Kennedy Space Center and Canaveral National Seashore.
Valdosta, Georgia
Valdosta, Georgia: county seat of Lowndes County in south Georgia on I-75, incorporated 1860, population about 56,000. Known as Azalea City and Winnersville; home of Valdosta State University, Moody AFB, and Wild Adventures.
Venice, Florida
Venice, Florida is a city in Sarasota County on the Gulf of Mexico, planned in the 1920s and known as the Shark Tooth Capital of the World.
Vero Beach, Florida
Vero Beach is a city on Florida's Atlantic coast and the county seat of Indian River County, with 16,354 residents at the 2020 Census and a longtime Dodgers spring training history.
Virginia Beach, Virginia
Virginia Beach is an independent city in southeastern Virginia where the Chesapeake Bay meets the Atlantic Ocean. With about 454,000 residents, it is the largest city in Virginia.
Warner Robins, Georgia
Warner Robins, Georgia, the International City, is a Houston County city of about 88,000 created in 1943 around Robins Air Force Base, Georgia's largest single-site industrial complex, and named for Brig. Gen. Augustine Warner Robins.
Welch, West Virginia
Welch, also known as Welch, WV, is the county seat of McDowell County, West Virginia, at the confluence of the Tug Fork and Elkhorn Creek in the state's southern coalfields.
Wellington, Florida
Wellington, Florida: a village in Palm Beach County incorporated December 31, 1995, population about 62,000, built from Charles Oliver Wellington's Flying Cow Ranch and known as a winter equestrian capital hosting the Winter Equestrian Festival.
West Palm Beach, Florida
West Palm Beach, Florida: county seat and largest city of Palm Beach County, founded 1894 by Henry Flagler as a service town for Palm Beach; population about 127,000, downtown Brightline station, renamed Trump airport, and an active development debate.
Weston, Florida
Weston, Florida is a master-planned city in southwestern Broward County, incorporated September 3, 1996 from the Arvida development once named Indian Trace. Population 68,107 (2020); borders the Everglades; median household income $139,825.
Wheeling, West Virginia
Wheeling, West Virginia: Ohio River city and Ohio County seat, first capital of West Virginia (1863) and western terminus of the 1818 National Road; once the "Nail City," now the state's fifth-largest city with about 25,700 residents.
Williamsburg, Virginia
Williamsburg, Virginia, an independent city founded in 1699 as Middle Plantation and Virginia's colonial capital 1699–1780, home of William & Mary and the Colonial Williamsburg living-history museum.
Wilmington, North Carolina
Wilmington, North Carolina: coastal port city in New Hanover County on the Cape Fear River, eighth largest NC city, population about 126,800 (2025). Known for its Civil War blockade-running port, the 1898 coup, UNCW, and hurricane and flood exposure.
Winchester, Virginia
Winchester, Virginia: independent city and Frederick County seat at the northern Shenandoah Valley entrance; founded 1744 by James Wood; most contested Civil War town (~70 changes of hands); 28,120 people (2020); Apple Blossom Festival since 1924.
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Winston-Salem, North Carolina: Twin City formed 1913 by merging Moravian Salem (1766) and industrial Winston; Forsyth County seat, 2020 population 249,545, tobacco heritage, City of Arts and Innovation.
Winter Haven, Florida
Winter Haven, Florida: Chain of Lakes City in central Polk County, incorporated 1911 (town) and 1923 (city). Population grew from 33,874 (2010) to an estimated 62,313 (2025); known for its canal-connected lakes, citrus heritage, LEGOLAND, and logistics growth.
Winter Park, Florida
Winter Park, Florida: a city in Orange County about three miles north of Orlando, founded 1887 by Loring Chase and Oliver Chapman, home to Rollins College, a chain of lakes, Park Avenue, and the 1981 sinkhole.
Yorktown, Virginia
Yorktown, Virginia: unincorporated York County community on the York River, founded 1691 as a colonial tobacco port; site of the October 19, 1781 siege where Cornwallis surrendered to Washington, preserved in Colonial National Historical Park.