Keasbey, New Jersey

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Keasbey, New Jersey
Census-designated place
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Anthony Quinton Keasbey
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Keasbey
Location in Middlesex County
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Keasbey
Location in New Jersey
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Keasbey
Location in the United States
Coordinates: 40°31′00″N74°18′19″W / 40.51667°N 74.30528°W / 40.51667; -74.30528
Country Flag of the United States.svg  United States
State Flag of New Jersey.svg  New Jersey
County Middlesex
Township Woodbridge
Named for Keasbey family
Area
[1]
 • Total1.80 sq mi (4.66 km2)
 • Land1.46 sq mi (3.78 km2)
 • Water0.34 sq mi (0.88 km2)
Elevation
36 ft (11 m)
Population
 (2020) [2]
 • Total3,027
 • Density2,073.3/sq mi (800.5/km2)
ZIP Code
08832
FIPS code 34-36570 [3]
GNIS feature ID0877527 [4]

Keasbey (pronounced "KAYS-bee" [5] ) is a census-designated place [6] (CDP) and unincorporated community in Woodbridge Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States. [7] It is located in the western outskirts of adjacent Perth Amboy. As of the 2020 census, the CDP's population was 3,027. [2] Many Hispanic / Latino families have relocated from Perth Amboy to Keasbey. [8]

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Keasbey was originally known as "Florida Grove" [9] [10] due to its picnic areas and beaches on the Raritan River.

The community is named after the Keasbey family, whose home in Morristown is now Macculloch Hall, a museum. One of the brick manufacturers established in Keasbey was owned by the Keasbey family.

Geography

Keasbey is in northeastern Middlesex County, occupying the southern end of Woodbridge Township. It is bordered to the north by Fords within Woodbridge Township; to the east by the city of Perth Amboy; to the west by Edison Township; and to the south by the Raritan River, across which is the borough of Sayreville.

The Garden State Parkway and the Route 440 freeway intersect in Keasbey. Newark is 19 miles (31 km) to the northeast, New Brunswick, the Middlesex county seat, is 9 miles (14 km) to the southwest, and Staten Island, New York, is 4 miles (6 km) to the east across the Arthur Kill.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Keasbey CDP has an area of 1.80 square miles (4.66 km2), of which 1.46 square miles (3.78 km2) are land and 0.34 square miles (0.88 km2), or 18.80%, are water, consisting of the northern half of the Raritan River waterway. [1]

Demographics

As of the 2020 United States census, the area had a population of 3,027. [2]

Historical population
CensusPop.Note%±
2020 3,027—
2020 [2]

Education

Residents are zoned to the Woodbridge Township School District.

In media

The third wave ska band Catch 22 referenced Keasbey in the title of their album Keasbey Nights in 1998. The album was re-recorded by Streetlight Manifesto in 2006.

Companies

Major employers include: [8]

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References

  1. 1 2 "2023 U.S. Gazetteer Files: New Jersey". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved July 30, 2024.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Census Data Explorer: Keasbey CDP, New Jersey, United States Census Bureau. Accessed June 15, 2023.
  3. ↑ Geographic Codes Lookup for New Jersey, Missouri Census Data Center. Accessed June 9, 2023.
  4. ↑ "Keasbey". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior . Retrieved September 28, 2012.
  5. ↑ Melisurgo, Len. "Here's the right way to pronounce 25 N.J. town names everyone botches", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, June 23, 2017. Accessed June 22, 2023. "The correct pronunciation, at least the one being used in modern times, is KAYS-bee, according to the Historical Association of Woodbridge Township."
  6. ↑ State of New Jersey Census Designated Places - BVP20 - Data as of January 1, 2020, United States Census Bureau. Accessed December 1, 2022.
  7. ↑ Locality Search, State of New Jersey. Accessed February 9, 2015.
  8. 1 2 "Keasbey community in Woodbridge has changed over the years".
  9. ↑ Virginia B. Troeger and Robert James McEwen, Woodbridge: New Jersey's Oldest Township (Arcadia Publishing, 2002; ISBN   0738523941), p. 103.
  10. ↑ Gannett, Henry (January 28, 1895). "A Geographic Dictionary of New Jersey". U.S. Government Printing Office – via Google Books.
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