Harrisonville New Jersey Map

About Harrisonville, New Jersey

Harrisonville is a locality in Gloucester County, New Jersey, United States. It is a small community with a population of 306. The population density is 59.0 people per km². Harrisonville is located at 39.6857°N, 75.2773°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP codes: 08070, 08039.

Harrisonville occupies a stretch of fertile, low-lying ground where the steady, dark pulse of Oldmans Creek carves a slow path through the southern landscape. It lies 4.8 miles southeast of Woolwich, NJ (from Woolwich, NJ: bearing 139°T), and is situated 8.6 miles west-southwest of Gloucester. The terrain here is defined by a quiet, agrarian patience, where the heavy, moisture-rich air of the inland plains encourages a thick growth of hardwoods and tangled underbrush. Harrisonville Lake serves as a reflective, glass-like centerpiece for the Harrisonville Lake Wildlife Management Area, providing a sanctuary where the silence is broken only by the sudden strike of a heron or the shifting weight of shadows under the canopy. On the distant horizon, the faint, jagged silhouette of Cabin Ridge rises against the twilight, a reminder of the elevation that exists far beyond these flat, shadowed fields.

Harrisonville retains the steady, unassuming character of a place built upon the rhythms of the soil and the legacy of early milling operations that once harnessed the local waterways. The local economy persists in a delicate balance between small-scale agriculture and the quiet maintenance of the land, avoiding the frantic pace of the more densely populated corridors to the north. Life in Harrisonville moves with a deliberate, measured gravity, reflecting a history rooted in the hard work of those who cleared the timber and organized the first plots of earth. Residents often move through their days with a profound awareness of the seasons, finding a particular, austere beauty in the way the morning light catches the reeds at the water’s edge or the way the autumn frost clings to the fallow rows of the local fields.

About This Harrisonville Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Harrisonville, New Jersey. Coordinates: 39.685659, -75.277309. 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 Harrisonville includes the ZIP code (08070, 08039), telephone area code (856, 609), county seat of Gloucester County (Woodbury), and school district assignment (Kingsway Regional 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.