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Lake Hopatcong is the largest freshwater body in New Jersey, United States, about 4 square miles (10 km 2) in area.Located 30 miles (48 km) from the Delaware River and 40 miles (64 km) from Manhattan, New York City, the lake forms part of the border between Sussex and Morris counties in the state's northern highlands region.
Hopatcong State Park is a state park in the Landing section of Roxbury Township, New Jersey, United States.Operated and maintained by the New Jersey Division of Parks and Forestry, the park consists of two parcels of land: one that encompasses Lake Hopatcong and some of its southwestern shore, and another that encompasses Lake Musconetcong about one mile to the west-southwest.
A deep-water oxygenation system could be in the cards for Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey's largest lake, as stakeholders seek to stifle the kind of harmful algal blooms that effectively closed it in 2019.
The Lake Shawnee dam was damaged during a storm in March 2010. The dam had already been under pressure by a snowy winter, causing rising water levels. [4] In 2016, there was an effort to change the mailing address from a Wharton, New Jersey, 07885 ZIP code, to a Lake Hopatcong 07849 ZIP code. The effort was narrowly defeated. [5]
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Lake Hopatcong CDP has a total area of 9.39 square miles (24.32 km 2), of which 7.39 square miles (19.14 km 2) are land and 2.00 square miles (5.18 km 2), or 21.34%, are water. [1] The lake, with an outlet 2 miles (3 km) to the southwest into the Musconetcong River, is part of the Delaware River watershed.
The Lake Hopatcong Station upon opening in 1911. In 1910, the DL&W began building a new Lake Hopatcong Station south of the bridges in anticipation of the opening of the Lackawanna Cut-Off to the north. [1] [11] Completed for $28,500, and opened on May 28, 1911, [12] [13] the new station had a main building on Landing Road and two large ...
A report on proposed changes to U.S. dietary guidelines suggests encouraging Americans to eat more beans and lentils for protein and less red meat.
Hopatcong (/ h oʊ ˈ p æ t k ɒ ŋ / hoh-PAT-kong) is a borough in Sussex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 14,362, [10] [11] a decrease of 785 (−5.2%) from the 2010 census count of 15,147, [20] [21] which in turn reflected a decline of 741 (−4.7%) from the 15,888 counted in the 2000 census.