Chesapeake is the name of various places in the United States of America:

• Chesapeake, Ohio
• Chesapeake, Virginia

There are also:

• Chesapeake Bay, a large estuary or bay whose entry to the Atlantic Ocean is between Norfolk, Virginia and Cape Charles, Virginia. The Chesapeake Bay Watershed

ranges across Virginia, Maryland, the District of Columbia, West Virginia, Delaware, Pennsylvania and New York.

• USS Chesapeake (1799) was an American frigate
• Chesapeake is sometimes used to refer to the colonial settlement of Jamestown, Virginia, which was in the Chesapeake Bay area.
• Chesapeake was also the name of a novel published in the 1970s by James Michener.