Explore Clearbrook, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Clearbrook, 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 Clearbrook.
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 | Clearbrook |
| State | New Jersey (NJ) |
| County | Middlesex County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 40.313998 |
| Longitude | -74.467652 |
| Population | 2,909 |
| Density | 1483.7 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 08831 |
| Area Code | 908 |
| County Seat | New Brunswick |
| School District | Monroe Township School District |
Clearbrook occupies a flat, inland expanse where the morning light catches the low-lying fields and the heavy, humid air of the interior. The landscape is defined by the steady, unassuming flow of Cranbury Brook, which meanders through the damp soil just a short distance from the residential heart of the area. To the west, the horizon remains stubbornly level, lacking the jagged interference of the Mount Pleasant Hills, which remain a distant, hazy memory sixteen miles away. The earth here retains a deep, dark quality, absorbing the summer heat and holding the quiet, persistent stillness of a region that has long ago traded its wilder character for the ordered geometry of modern life.
Clearbrook maintains a quiet proximity to the markers of colonial struggle, sharing the same soil as the nearby Monmouth Battlefield State Park where the ghosts of the past are kept in the managed grass. The local economy persists in the tension between the residual memory of agrarian labor and the encroaching demands of a dense, industrial corridor. Beyond the immediate reach of the houses, the land remains largely indifferent to the pace of the commuters, though the proximity of the William L Hutcheson Memorial Forest, fourteen miles away, offers a brief, dense refuge of ancient timber. Even the stillness of Brainerd Lake, two miles to the north, serves as a reminder of the water’s role in shaping the small-scale commerce that once defined the early settlement of these plains.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Clearbrook, New Jersey. Coordinates: 40.313998, -74.467652. 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 Clearbrook includes the ZIP code (08831), telephone area code (908), county seat of Middlesex County (New Brunswick), and school district assignment (Monroe Township School District).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
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.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |