Lincoln Park New Jersey Map

About Lincoln Park, New Jersey

Lincoln Park is a locality in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States. It has a population of 10,915. The population density is 658.7 people per km². Lincoln Park is located at 40.9238°N, 74.3042°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Lincoln Park is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 08005, 08901, 07035.

Lincoln Park emerges from the low-lying terrain where the Gunning River carves a serpentine path through the landscape, its dark waters reflecting the shifting moods of a sky that feels perpetually heavy with the salt-tinged air of the Atlantic Ocean. It lies 1.4 miles southwest of Barnegat, NJ (from Barnegat, NJ: bearing 236°T), and is situated 9.4 miles south-southeast of Lacey. The ground here is soft and saturated, a mosaic of marsh and meadowland that stretches toward the horizon, punctuated by the quiet, unassuming presence of Bowline Street & Bildge Avenue. Three miles distant, the still surface of Arnold Pond catches the amber light of late afternoon, while the silhouette of Forked River Mountain remains a faint, jagged promise far to the west. In the stillness of the afternoon, the damp earth exhales a scent of pine and brackish water, a reminder of the proximity to the coast, while the light turns a bruised, metallic violet that seems to press against the trees and the weathered siding of local homes.

History in Lincoln Park is written in the slow accretion of labor, a record of those who once looked to the nearby tides for sustenance and now navigate the rhythms of a modern, suburban density. The economy has long since shifted from the raw, elemental extraction of the past to a quieter, localized commerce, where the daily industry revolves around the sustainment of the neighborhood rather than the grand ambitions of the docks. Residents move with a deliberate pace, their lives shaped by the same geography that defined their predecessors, balancing the encroaching stillness of the woods with the persistent, distant hum of the world beyond. Even as the decades have altered the texture of the streets, the fundamental character of Lincoln Park remains anchored to the river’s edge, a place where the proximity to the Atlantic Ocean serves as a constant, invisible boundary, tempering the heat of summer and bringing a sharp, clean chill to the winter nights.

About This Lincoln Park Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Lincoln Park, New Jersey. Coordinates: 40.923751, -74.304235. 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 Lincoln Park includes the ZIP code (08005, 08901, 07035), telephone area code (908, 201, 551), county seat of Ocean County (Toms River), and school district assignment (Lincoln Park Borough 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.