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Map of Toms River in 1878. In 1850, Toms River became the county seat of the newly created Ocean County when it was formed out of southern Monmouth County. During the second half of the 19th century and the early decades of the 20th, many new towns were carved out of Dover Township, including Brick, Jackson, Lakewood, and Berkeley.
Colonel Lewis Morris (1671–1746), colonial governor of New Jersey at the time of the county's formation [19] [20] 1,096.85 514,423: 469 sq mi (1,215 km 2) Ocean County: 029: Toms River: Lakewood Township 135,158: 1850: Monmouth and Burlington counties: The Atlantic Ocean, which forms the eastern border of New Jersey: 1,036.47 659,197: 636 sq ...
In addition to the census-designated place, which includes all of mainland Toms River Township and is home to the vast majority of the township's population, Toms River Township includes two small CDPs: Dover Beaches North (2020 Census population of 1,277) and Dover Beaches South (1,331), both of which are located on the Barnegat Peninsula. As ...
In 1941, construction finished of a new bypass of the communities of The Caldwells and Fairfield, where Route 159's northern terminus occurs. [4] U.S. Route 46 at the time also had the internal designation of New Jersey State Highway Route 6, which gave the bypassed segment of 6/46 the designation of New Jersey State Highway Route 6M.
County Route 571 (CR 571) is a county highway in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The highway extends 43.96 miles (70.75 km) from Route 37 in Toms River Township to Route 27 in Princeton . Though it is designated a north–south county route by the New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT), it is signed both as north–south and east–west ...
New Jersey Turnpike, 51.0-mile (82.1 km) portion south of exit 6 is unsigned Route 700 while remainder is I-95 Route 700N: 5.90: 9.50 I-95 / N.J. Turnpike in Newark: Exit 14C on the Newark Bay Extension in Jersey City: 1953: 1969 New Jersey Turnpike Newark Bay Extension, now I-78: Route 700P: 6.50: 10.46 I-276 in Florence
Prior to 1927, the route between present-day Route 70 in Lakehurst and present-day CR 527 in Toms River was a part of Pre-1927 Route 18, which was legislated in 1923 to run from Camden to Toms River. [6] In the 1927 New Jersey state highway renumbering, Route 37 was legislated to run from Route 27 and Route 30 (now Business US 1, US 206, and ...
Route 166 is a short, 3.73-mile (6.00 km) state highway in Ocean County, New Jersey. The route provides an alternate alignment of U.S. Route 9 through South Toms River and Toms River. The southern terminus is at an intersection with U.S. Route 9 northbound in Beachwood, where it heads northward along Atlantic City Boulevard. The route continues ...