page_title: Matoaca, Virginia
hierarchical_section_title: Matoaca, Virginia
caption_attribution_description: English: The Appomattox River at Matoaca.
context_page_description: Matoaca is a census-designated place in Chesterfield County, Virginia, United States. The population was 2,403 at the 2010 census. It is named after the Pamunkey princess Matoaka who was better known by her nickname "Pocahontas". It was near the site of an Appomattoc village Matoka or Matoks, which was reputedly her girlhood home, and the palace town of the weroansqua Oppussoquionuske.
  In 2016 it was listed as No. 42 in CNN Money's Top 50 Places to Live in the United States.
context_section_description: Matoaca is a census-designated place (CDP) in Chesterfield County, Virginia, United States. The population was 2,403 at the 2010 census. It is named after the Pamunkey princess Matoaka who was better known by her nickname "Pocahontas". It was near the site of an Appomattoc village Matoka or Matoks, which was reputedly her girlhood home, and the palace town of the weroansqua Oppussoquionuske.
  In 2016 it was listed as No. 42 in CNN Money's Top 50 Places to Live in the United States.
caption: The Appomattox River at Matoaca
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