Nixon, New Jersey

Nixon, New Jersey
Unincorporated community
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Coordinates: 40°30′51″N74°22′03″W / 40.51417°N 74.36750°W / 40.51417; -74.36750
Country	United States
State	New Jersey
County	Middlesex
Township	Edison
Elevation [1]	52 ft (16 m)
GNIS feature ID	878807 [1]

Nixon is an unincorporated community located within Edison Township in Middlesex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. ^{[2] [3]} It was named after Lewis Nixon, a manufacturer and community leader. Soon after the outbreak of World War I, Nixon established a massive volatile chemicals processing facility there, known as the Nixon Nitration Works. It was the site of the 1924 Nixon Nitration Works disaster, a massive explosion and resulting fire that killed 20 people and destroyed several square miles around the plant. ^[4]

See also

• List of neighborhoods in Edison, New Jersey

References

1. "Nixon". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
2. Locality Search, State of New Jersey. Accessed February 11, 2015.
3. Spies, Stacy (2001), Edison, Arcadia Publishing, ISBN   9780738505497
4. Staff. "FERTILIZER PLANT BLOWS UP; Theory Is That TNT, Accidentally Left in Shells, Caused Blast.", The New York Times , March 2, 1924. Accessed March 20, 2012. "At least twenty persons were killed yesterday in an explosion of a two-story tile and brick fertilizer building of Ammonite Company at Nixon, N.J., six miles northeast of New Brunswick. A dozen others were unaccounted for last night and were listed as missing."