Great Notch New Jersey Map
Explore Great Notch, 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 Great Notch, New Jersey
How to Use This Great Notch, New Jersey Map
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Great Notch, 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 Great Notch.
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 | Great Notch |
| State | New Jersey (NJ) |
| County | Passaic County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 40.874544 |
| Longitude | -74.207646 |
| Population | 3,289 |
| Density | 1280.1 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 07424 |
| Area Code | 973, 862 |
| County Seat | Paterson |
| School District | Little Falls Township School District |
About Great Notch, New Jersey
Great Notch is a locality in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States. It has a population of approximately 3,289. The population density is 1280.1 people per km². Great Notch is located at 40.8745°N, 74.2076°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 07424.Great Notch defines the transition where the jagged basalt of the First Watchung Mountain yields to the low-lying, industrious plains of the interior. The air here holds a distinct, heavy clarity, often carrying the damp salt-breath of the Atlantic from sixteen miles away, even as it settles over the quiet surface of the Cedar Grove Reservoir. Third River carves a narrow, persistent path through the terrain, its banks lined with the sediment of an older, harder earth. Inwood Park offers a meager but vital respite of green, a patch of managed wilderness where the light at dusk turns the shadows into deep, bruised purples against the rising ridges. Beyond these immediate boundaries, the Preakness Valley spreads out like a basin, catching the evening mist before it drifts toward the distant, unseen waters of Wallington Reach.
Great Notch emerged from the hard necessity of transit and the relentless push of an expanding industrial age, its economy once tethered to the iron-willed movement of stone and rail. The echoes of a working-class history persist in the utilitarian architecture and the steady, rhythmic pulse of daily life that ignores the frantic pace of the wider world. Three miles away, the Passaic Falls once powered the dreams of early manufacturers, and that same spirit of harnessed force remains a subtle undercurrent in the local character. Despite its proximity to the vast, sprawling density of the region, Great Notch maintains a deliberate, self-contained stillness, where the landscape—marked by ancient volcanic rock and the patient flow of water—dictates the boundaries of progress. It is a place where the modern commuter finds a fragile equilibrium between the memory of heavy industry and the encroaching, quiet suburban sprawl.
Nearby Outdoor Places
- Erie Lackawanna (Private Recreation) — 0.2 mi, 228° SW
- Rifle Camp (Local Recreation) — 0.7 mi, 081° E
- Colin McNeil (Monument) — 0.8 mi, 282° W
- Reservoir View (Viewpoint) — 0.8 mi, 076° E
- John Arthur Nigra/Arthur Henry Nigra (Monument) — 0.9 mi, 294° NW
- The Morris Canal/Time Capsule (Monument) — 1.0 mi, 295° NW
- L. Howard Fox Theater (Theatre) — 1.1 mi, 147° SE
- Mills Reservation (Local Conservation Area) — 1.1 mi, 179° S
- Community Park (Local Recreation) — 1.2 mi, 227° SW
- Mountainside Park (Local Park) — 1.4 mi, 179° S
- Elk Statue (Public Artwork) — 1.5 mi, 002° N
- Garret Mountain Reservation (Local Conservation Area) — 1.8 mi, 041° NE
- Sunrise Art Studio (Gallery) — 2.0 mi, 099° E
- Unknown Park (Local Park) — 2.2 mi, 289° W
- The Bellevue (Cinema) — 2.3 mi, 182° S
- More Montclair Mud Clay Studio (Arts Centre) — 2.4 mi, 182° S
- Loews Theatres (Cinema) — 2.4 mi, 293° NW
- Fine Art Academy of Montclair (Arts Centre) — 3.1 mi, 177° S
- Brighton Asylum (Attraction) — 3.5 mi, 109° E
- Great Piece Meadows Preserve (State Conservation Area) — 3.9 mi, 294° NW
- Studio Montclair Leach Gallery (Gallery) — 4.1 mi, 190° S
- Nutley Museum (Museum) — 4.5 mi, 149° SE
- William Paterson University Galleries (Gallery) — 4.7 mi, 007° N
- VanFossan Theater (Theatre) — 5.6 mi, 174° S
- American Flag Rock (Attraction) — 6.6 mi, 004° N
- Division of Parks and Forestry Park (State Park) — 6.7 mi, 304° NW
- Carlstadt Historic Firehouse Museum (Museum) — 6.7 mi, 112° E
- Troy Meadows State Park (State Park) — 6.9 mi, 252° W
- Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 14.7 mi, 229° SW · 16k acres
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About This Great Notch Map Page
This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Great Notch, New Jersey. Coordinates: 40.874544, -74.207646. 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 Great Notch includes the ZIP code (07424), telephone area code (973, 862), county seat of Passaic County (Paterson), and school district assignment (Little Falls 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. |
