Explore Kenvil, 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 Kenvil, 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 Kenvil.
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 | Kenvil |
| State | New Jersey (NJ) |
| County | Morris County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 40.879821 |
| Longitude | -74.618493 |
| Population | 1,806 |
| Density | 587.9 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 07847 |
| Area Code | 732, 848 |
| County Seat | Morristown |
| School District | Roxbury Township School District |
Kenvil holds a quiet gravity at the edge of the Succasunna Plains, where the earth flattens into a basin that has long defined the transit of people and goods through the inland corridor. It lies 1.5 miles east-northeast of Roxbury, NJ (from Roxbury, NJ: bearing 72°T), and is situated 6.3 miles east-northeast of Mount Olive. The Lamington River traces a path nearby, its currents carving a slow, persistent line through the soil, while the surface of Marine Lake reflects the changing light of the seasons, offering a still, glassy mirror to the passing clouds. To the northwest, the distant silhouette of the Kittatinny Mountains anchors the horizon, a jagged reminder of the ancient geology that shapes the regional winds. Within the local landscape, Dell Avenue Park provides a patch of managed green space, a modest clearing where the pace of the afternoon slows to the movement of shifting shadows across the grass.
Industry and the rhythm of labor have marked Kenvil since the early days when the expansion of rail and transit lines drew workers to the shifting landscape of the plains. While the echoes of older, heavier manufacturing have receded, the character of the place remains tied to its function as a crossroads, a center of movement where the legacy of the working day persists in the architecture and the steady, utilitarian flow of traffic. The air here holds the dry, grounded scent of inland earth, stripped of the humidity found closer to the eastern edges of the state. Visitors and residents alike move through a terrain that favors the pragmatic over the decorative, finding a particular, austere beauty in the way the low sun illuminates the industrial fiber of the roads at dusk, revealing the persistence of a place that continues to function and evolve without fanfare.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Kenvil, New Jersey. Coordinates: 40.879821, -74.618493. 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 Kenvil includes the ZIP code (07847), telephone area code (732, 848), county seat of Morris County (Morristown), and school district assignment (Roxbury 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. |