Explore Gandys Beach, 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 Gandys Beach, 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 Gandys Beach.
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 | Gandys Beach |
| State | New Jersey (NJ) |
| County | Cumberland County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 39.272059 |
| Longitude | -75.234912 |
| Population | 25 |
| Density | 101.6 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 08345 |
| Area Code | 609, 640 |
| County Seat | Bridgeton |
| School District | Downe Township School District |
Gandys Beach emerges as a quiet expanse of inland terrain where the meandering path of Beach Creek carves a soft, dark ribbon through the surrounding woodland. It lies 10.7 miles south of Bridgeton, NJ (from Bridgeton, NJ: bearing 180°T), and is situated 4.6 miles south-southwest of Lawrence Cumberland County. Beyond the immediate reach of the creek, the landscape stretches into a flat, deliberate horizon, punctuated only by the occasional silhouette of Pine Mount rising eleven miles away to break the monotony of the plain. The air here holds a distinct, heavy stillness, often colored by the golden, amber light that settles over the low-lying grasses during the late afternoon. This silence is the defining characteristic of the Gandys Beach Preserve, a sprawling LREC that anchors the local topography and protects the integrity of the soil against the encroachment of modern development.
History in Gandys Beach remains tethered to the slow, persistent rhythm of the land and the agricultural traditions that once dictated the pace of life for those who cleared these woods. The economy, long removed from the industrial clamor of the north, now favors a quiet preservation of the natural order, drawing its identity from the proximity of The Glades, which lies five miles away as a shallow, verdant basin. Residents navigate their days with a measured, intentional gravity, far removed from the frantic pulse of the urban centers that lie beyond the regional perimeter. Even the distant, shimmering surface of Johnson Pond, located twenty-two miles away, seems to belong to a different geography entirely, leaving Gandys Beach to define itself through the subtle shifting of shadows across the fields and the persistent, unhurried flow of the local creek.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Gandys Beach, New Jersey. Coordinates: 39.272059, -75.234912. 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 Gandys Beach includes the ZIP code (08345), telephone area code (609, 640), county seat of Cumberland County (Bridgeton), and school district assignment (Downe 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. |