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Ocean Acres is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) split between Barnegat Township and Stafford Township, in Ocean County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] As of the 2010 United States Census , the CDP's population was 16,142, of which 925 were in Barnegat Township and 15,217 were in Stafford Township.
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The Deal Test Site (now Joe Palaia Park) is located in Ocean Township, New Jersey. The Joe Palaia Park was originally started as the Foxburst Farm, a 63-acre (250,000 m 2) tract which is now the southern portion of the park. It was purchased by Western Electric, (part of AT&T and later Lucent), in 1919. The site was later expanded with an ...
The county had a total of 2,958.5 miles (4,761.2 km) of roadways, of which 2,164.2 miles (3,482.9 km) are maintained by the municipality, 615.5 miles (990.6 km) by Ocean County and 140.19 miles (225.61 km) by the New Jersey Department of Transportation and 38.59 miles (62.10 km) by the New Jersey Turnpike Authority. [94] Ocean County has ...
New Jersey's state park system includes properties as small as the 32-acre (0.13 km 2) Barnegat Lighthouse State Park and as large as the 115,000-acre (470 km 2) Wharton State Forest. The state park system comprises 430,928 acres (1,743.90 km 2)—roughly 7.7% of New Jersey's land area—and serves over 17.8 million annual visitors.
Ocean Township is a township located on the Jersey Shore in Ocean County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 8,835, [9] [10] its largest ever decennial count and an increase of 503 (+6.0%) from the 2010 census count of 8,332, [18] [19] which in turn reflected an increase of 1,882 (+29.2%) from the 6,450 counted in the 2000 census.
The biggest source of income in the shore region comes from the tourism industry with makes up 85% of employment in the area it is a vital source of income for many families and local businesses the employment growth in the area is higher than that in the rest of the state though housing development is considerably lower in the area though in the northern coastal region they rely mostly on ...
Sunset Bay State Park is about 1 mile (1.6 km) north of Shore Acres, and Cape Arago State Park is about a mile south. [3] Shore Acres Holiday Lights. The park features 5 acres (2 ha) of formal gardens including a rose-testing plot and Japanese lily pond, [3] as well as ocean views and beach access. [1] In the cooler months, visitors can watch ...