Maple Shade New Jersey Map

About Maple Shade, New Jersey

Maple Shade is a locality in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States. Maple Shade is located at 39.9798°N, 74.2071°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP codes: 08753, 08052.

Maple Shade occupies a broad, flat expanse of land where the horizon is defined by the steady, low-slung architecture of suburban life and the persistent encroachment of wild, secondary growth. It lies 1.9 miles north-northwest of Toms River, NJ (from Toms River, NJ: bearing 345°T), and is situated 5.6 miles east of Ocean County. The air here holds a heavy, humid weight, reminiscent of the nearby Atlantic Ocean, which exerts a subtle pull on the local climate despite the miles of earth between. Winding River Park provides a quiet, green anchor for the landscape, offering a place where the sprawl of pavement yields to the tangled, quiet reeds of the lowlands. The sky at dusk often turns a bruised, electric purple, reflecting off the damp soil that characterizes this region, while the slow, steady current of the Toms River marks the western edge of the local geography.

Maple Shade carries the quiet weight of a place built on the steady movement of commerce and the transition of transit corridors, serving as a crossroads where the labor of the past has folded into the rhythms of modern industry. The influence of the nearby Atlantic Ocean informs the local pace, where the salt-tinged wind occasionally stirs the dust of industrial lots and residential streets alike. Residents find a peculiar solitude in the relative distance from the more prominent peaks, such as Stony Hill, or the more distant reach of Jackson State Forest, favoring instead the small, intimate scale of their own neighborhood. Life moves in a cycle of morning commutes and evening stillness, a persistent, humming vitality that defines the daily experience of those who call Maple Shade home.

About This Maple Shade Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Maple Shade, New Jersey. Coordinates: 39.97984, -74.207087. 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 Maple Shade includes the ZIP code (08753, 08052), telephone area code (732, 848, 856, 609), county seat of Ocean County (Toms River), and school district assignment.

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.