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Chester New Jersey Map

Explore Chester, New Jersey, with this interactive street and satellite map.

This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.

Interactive Map of Chester, New Jersey

How to Use This Chester, New Jersey Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Chester, New Jersey. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of New Jersey or beyond.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Chester.

Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.

City	Chester
State	New Jersey (NJ)
County	Morris County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	40.784267
Longitude	-74.696828
Population	1,681
Density	407.7 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	07930
Area Code	908
County Seat	Morristown
School District	Chester Township School District

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About Chester, New Jersey

Chester is a locality in Morris County, New Jersey, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,681. The population density is 407.7 people per km². Chester is located at 40.7843°N, 74.6968°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Chester is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 07930.

Chester occupies a high, inland plateau where the air holds a crisp, singular clarity that distinguishes it from the humid lowlands to the east. It lies 4.3 miles east of Washington Morris County, NJ (from Washington Morris County, NJ: bearing 90°T), and is situated 5.0 miles south-southeast of Mount Olive. The landscape reveals itself as a series of undulating ridges and deep, verdant hollows, carved by the slow passage of water toward the nearby Peapack Brook. To the west, the distant, hazy blue silhouette of the Kittatinny Mountains defines the horizon, providing a permanent backdrop to the dense, quiet greenery of the surrounding woodland. Residents find a daily connection to the land at Grove Street Park, a space that marks the transition between the built environment and the wilder, wooded fringes that eventually lead toward the deeper canopy of Jenny Jump State Forest. When autumn arrives, the light turns a sharp, pale gold, illuminating the way the terrain dips toward German Valley, where the shadows linger longer in the cool, damp earth of the low-lying basin.

Chester carries the weight of a long-settled interior, its character defined by generations who worked the iron-rich soil and navigated the rugged topography long before the modern pace of commerce took hold. While the economy has shifted from the extractive industries of the past to a blend of specialized local trade and residential life, the architecture of the older streets maintains a stubborn, functional elegance that speaks to its origins as a crossroads. The proximity of Bryant Pond provides a quiet, reflective stillness to the outskirts, a place where the water mirrors the shifting gray of the sky with a mirror-like precision. Life in Chester moves with an observant, steady cadence, influenced by the changing seasons that dictate the rhythm of the gardens and the maintenance of the historic storefronts. It remains a place of deliberate transitions, where the modern traveler feels the quiet gravity of the interior hills and the legacy of a landscape that has always required a certain fortitude to inhabit.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Chubb Park (Local Recreation) — 0.6 mi, 285° W
Black River Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 0.9 mi, 305° NW
Patriots' Path (Local Recreation) — 1.0 mi, 334° NW
Seward Hill (Viewpoint) — 1.1 mi, 080° E
Black River Park (Local Park) — 1.1 mi, 194° S
Patriots Parh (Local Conservation Area) — 1.5 mi, 281° W
Black River Greenway (Local Park) — 1.7 mi, 049° NE
Bamboo Brook Outdoor Education Center (Local Resource Management Area) — 1.7 mi, 185° S
B. Bruce Anderson Memorial Flag (Monument) — 2.5 mi, 305° NW
Hacklebarney State Park (State Park) — 2.6 mi, 205° SW
South Branch Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 2.7 mi, 327° NW
Schooley's Mountain County Park (Local Conservation Area) — 3.1 mi, 279° W
Bockoven Sawmill (Historic Ruins) — 4.0 mi, 087° E
Lewis Forge Site (Historic Ruins) — 4.1 mi, 073° E
Flanders-Drakestown Road Stone Arch Bridge (Monument) — 5.0 mi, 324° NW
Children Reading on a Bench (Public Artwork) — 5.1 mi, 279° W
Peapack Gallery Paintings (Gallery) — 5.2 mi, 158° S
Mt Olive 9/11 Memorial (Monument) — 5.9 mi, 345° N
Allamuchy Mountain State Park (State Park) — 6.2 mi, 339° N
Legend Rock (Attraction) — 6.9 mi, 077° E
Dickerson Mine Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 7.4 mi, 036° NE
Cinepolis (Cinema) — 7.8 mi, 291° W
Longo Planetarium (Museum) — 8.0 mi, 050° NE
David and Carol Lackland Center (Theatre) — 8.4 mi, 301° NW
Basking Ridge Oak Tree (Attraction) — 9.4 mi, 125° SE
Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 9.8 mi, 115° SE · 16k acres
Ridge PAC (Arts Centre) — 10.0 mi, 128° SE
13th Hour Haunted House (Attraction) — 10.2 mi, 034° NE
Sieminski Theater (Theatre) — 10.6 mi, 146° SE
Canvas And Grapes (Gallery) — 11.3 mi, 084° E

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