Tuckerton
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| Location in New Jersey | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Foundation : | February 18, 1901 | ||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | New Jersey | ||
| County : | Ocean County | ||
| Coordinates : | 39 ° 36 ′ N , 74 ° 20 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 ) | ||
| Residents : | 3,347 (as of 2010) | ||
| Population density : | 384.7 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 9.9 km 2 (about 4 mi 2 ) of which 8.7 km 2 (about 3 mi 2 ) are land |
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| Height : | 0 m | ||
| Postal code : | 08087 | ||
| FIPS : | 34-2974210 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 885422 | ||
| Website : | www.tuckertonborough.com | ||
| Mayor : | George Evans | ||
Tuckerton is a settlement ( borough ) in Ocean County in the US state of New Jersey with a population of over 3,000.
From 1921 to 1955 a machine transmitter with the callsign WSC was installed here. Today, the place named after Ebenezer Tucker is an end point of the TAT-14 transatlantic submarine cable .
Personalities
- Ezra Baker (1765-after 1818), politician
- Ebenezer Tucker (1758–1845), politician
Web links
Commons : Tuckerton, New Jersey - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ Borough of Tuckerton in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey , accessed April 5, 2014