Anderson New Jersey Map

About Anderson, New Jersey

Anderson is a locality in Warren County, New Jersey, United States. It is a small community with a population of 306. The population density is 132.7 people per km². Anderson is located at 40.7613°N, 74.9256°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 07865.

Anderson emerges from the landscape where the Musconetcong River carves a slow, deliberate path through the earth, defining the character of the soil and the rhythm of the valley. It lies 7.3 miles west of Washington Morris County, NJ (from Washington Morris County, NJ: bearing 263°T), and is situated 7.8 miles south of Warren. To the west, the distant silhouette of the Fox Hill Range anchors the horizon, while the terrain itself rises and falls in long, muted swells that transition toward the nearby Pohatcong Valley. The air here holds a particular, heavy clarity at dusk, when the light catches the moisture rising from the Musconetcong River Wildlife Management Area, turning the fields a bruised shade of violet before the shadows settle. Willever Lake remains a quiet presence two miles away, its stillness offering a stark contrast to the persistent, low-frequency hum of the river as it pulls through the bedrock.

Anderson carries the weight of a quiet, industrious past, where the remnants of early milling and agrarian labor still linger in the architecture of the older foundations. The economy has shifted from the localized trades of former decades toward a quieter, more dispersed existence, yet the connection to the land remains visible in the way the fences follow the natural contours of the slopes. People here move with a deliberate pace, respecting the seasonal shifts in the woodlands and the demanding maintenance of the fields that stretch toward the horizon. Even as the modern world encroaches, the area retains a stubborn, inland gravity, indifferent to the distant, frantic energy of the coast, preferring instead the cyclical predictability of the Musconetcong River and the enduring, silent watch of the hills.

About This Anderson Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Anderson, New Jersey. Coordinates: 40.76126, -74.925569. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Anderson includes the ZIP code (07865), telephone area code (732, 848), county seat of Warren County (Belvidere), and school district assignment (Mansfield Township School District).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.