Explore Maple Shade, 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 Maple Shade, 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 Maple Shade.
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 | Maple Shade |
| State | New Jersey (NJ) |
| County | Ocean County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 39.97984 |
| Longitude | -74.207087 |
| Density | N/A /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 08753, 08052 |
| Area Code | 732, 848, 856, 609 |
| County Seat | Toms River |
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.
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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.
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. |