Explore Stow Creek, 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 Stow Creek, 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 Stow Creek.
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 | Stow Creek |
| State | New Jersey (NJ) |
| County | Cumberland County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 39.453618 |
| Longitude | -75.33321 |
| Population | 1,500 |
| Density | 18.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 08302 |
| Area Code | 609, 640 |
| County Seat | Bridgeton |
Stow Creek occupies a quiet expanse of land where the horizon is defined more by the steady, unyielding presence of earth than by any dramatic verticality. It lies 5.6 miles west-northwest of Bridgeton, NJ (from Bridgeton, NJ: bearing 289°T), and is situated 7.1 miles southwest of Upper Deerfield. Pine Mount rises two miles away as a modest, forested sentinel, its silhouette softening the clear, flat light that descends upon the fields each afternoon. Nearby, Long Branch Run carves a narrow, persistent path through the soil, drawing moisture from the surrounding acreage and sustaining the verdant patches that break up the dry, worked ground. The air here carries a crisp, terrestrial weight, devoid of any moisture that might suggest a distant coast, favoring instead the scent of turned dirt and the faint, resinous breath of the woods. Just a short distance away, Lake Arrowhead offers a sanctuary of still water, providing a focal point for the local wildlife that moves through the brush with a cautious, rhythmic persistence.
Stow Creek persists as a place of deliberate, agrarian patience, where the economy remains tethered to the slow cycles of cultivation and the maintenance of ancestral property lines. The legacy of the land is visible in the weathered barns and the long, straight fences that mark boundaries established by those who first broke this soil, long before the modern pace of the state began to accelerate. While the industry is quiet, it is defined by a deep-seated industriousness, favoring the tangible results of seasonal harvests over the ephemeral gains of urban commerce. Life within Stow Creek unfolds with a predictable, grounded grace, where the distance from the noise of more crowded centers is not merely a geographic fact, but a deliberate preservation of a particular way of existing. It is a location that demands little and offers a steady, quiet continuity to those who occupy its fields and lanes.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Stow Creek, New Jersey. Coordinates: 39.453618, -75.33321. 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 Stow Creek includes the ZIP code (08302), telephone area code (609, 640), county seat of Cumberland County (Bridgeton), 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. |