Cooks Mills, New Jersey

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Cooks Mills, New Jersey
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Intersection of Hockhockson Road and Obre Road
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Coordinates: 40°17′21″N74°06′49″W / 40.28917°N 74.11361°W / 40.28917; -74.11361 Coordinates: 40°17′21″N74°06′49″W / 40.28917°N 74.11361°W / 40.28917; -74.11361
Country Flag of the United States.svg  United States
State Flag of New Jersey.svg  New Jersey
County Monmouth
Township Colts Neck
Elevation [1] 66 ft (20 m)
GNIS feature ID 882441 [1]

Cooks Mills is an unincorporated community located within Colts Neck Township in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. Located on the eastern border of the township near Tinton Falls, it is situated in a rural area of the township surrounded by horse farms and large single-family houses. [2]

Colts Neck Township, New Jersey Township in New Jersey

Colts Neck Township is a township in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 10,142, reflecting a decline of 2,189 (-17.8%) from the 12,331 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 3,772 (+44.1%) from the 8,559 counted in the 1990 Census.

Monmouth County, New Jersey County in the United States

Monmouth County is a county located in Central New Jersey, in the United States within the New York metropolitan area, and the northernmost county along the Jersey Shore. As of the 2017 Census estimate, the county's population was 626,351, making it the state's fifth-most populous county, representing a decrease of 0.6% from the 2010 Census, when the population was enumerated at 630,380, in turn an increase of 15,079 from 615,301 at the 2000 Census. As of 2010, the county fell to the fifth-most populous county in the state, having been surpassed by Hudson County. Its county seat is Freehold Borough. The most populous place was Middletown Township, with 66,522 residents at the time of the 2010 Census, while Howell Township covered 61.21 square miles (158.5 km2), the largest total area of any municipality.

New Jersey State of the United States of America

New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the Northeastern United States. It is a peninsula, bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, particularly along the extent of the length of New York City on its western edge; on the east, southeast, and south by the Atlantic Ocean; on the west by the Delaware River and Pennsylvania; and on the southwest by the Delaware Bay and Delaware. New Jersey is the fourth-smallest state by area but the 11th-most populous, with 9 million residents as of 2017, and the most densely populated of the 50 U.S. states; its biggest city is Newark. New Jersey lies completely within the combined statistical areas of New York City and Philadelphia and was the second-wealthiest U.S. state by median household income as of 2017.

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