Explore Millstone, 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 Millstone, 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 Millstone.
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 | Millstone |
| State | New Jersey (NJ) |
| County | Somerset County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 40.499271 |
| Longitude | -74.588768 |
| Population | 448 |
| Density | 254.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Codes | 08844, 08510, 08535 |
| Area Code | 908, 609, 640 |
| County Seat | Somerville |
| School District | Hillsborough Township School District |
Millstone occupies a low-slung expanse of the interior landscape where the slow, deliberate current of the Millstone River carves a path through the earth. It lies 1.7 miles east-southeast of Hamilton, NJ (from Hamilton, NJ: bearing 106°T), and is situated 9.4 miles west of Edison. This inland territory is defined by the quiet accumulation of silt and the persistent growth of Mettlers Woods, where the trees stand in a dense, hushed congregation only two miles from the center. To the west, the distant outline of Middlebrook Heights provides a hard edge against the sky, while the proximity of the Delaware and Raritan Canal State Park offers a linear corridor of green that anchors the local geography. Spooky Brook Pond sits a mile away, its surface often catching the flat, pale light of late afternoon, reflecting the stillness that characterizes the surrounding fields and the sprawling, quiet plains of the Royce Valley visible in the distance.
Millstone retains a legacy rooted in the agrarian rhythms of its founding, though the modern economy has shifted toward a blend of professional enterprise and residential life that maintains a deliberate, measured pace. The land here carries the weight of colonial-era commerce, once serving as a vital link for mills and transport, a history still legible in the preservation of the Delaware and Raritan Canal State Park paths where commuters and weekend travelers now traverse the ground where grain and goods were once moved by mule. The local character is shaped by this transition from rural industry to a suburban composure, where the air holds the scent of damp soil and the turning seasons. Daily life in Millstone moves with a quiet tenacity, defined by the steady flow of the river and the way the shadows lengthen across the open acreage as the day pulls toward evening.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Millstone, New Jersey. Coordinates: 40.499271, -74.588768. 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 Millstone includes the ZIP code (08844, 08510, 08535), telephone area code (908, 609, 640), county seat of Somerset County (Somerville), and school district assignment (Hillsborough 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. |