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Colonial Heights is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 18,170. The Bureau of Economic Analysis combines the City of Colonial Heights (along with the City of Petersburg) with Dinwiddie County for statistical purposes. In 1781, French troops known as “Coloniels” deployed artillery on the heights overlooking Petersburg from across the Appomattox River. The area thereafter came to be known as Colonial Heights.