Bridgeton
Bridgeton is a city in Cumberland County, within the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is the county seat of Cumberland County and is located on the Cohansey River near Delaware Bay in the South Jersey region of the state.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 24,400 residents
- Description: city in Cumberland County, New Jersey, United States
- Also known as: “Bridgeton, New Jersey”, “Bridgeton, NJ”, “Bridgetown”, “Cohansey Bridge”, and “The Bridge”
- Postal code: 08302
Places of Interest
Highlights include Potter’s Tavern and Cohanzick Zoo.
Potter’s Tavern
Historic building
Photo: Smallbones, Public domain.
Potter's Tavern is located at 49–51 Broad Street in the city of Bridgeton in Cumberland County, New Jersey, United States. Built in 1770, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 10, 1971, for its significance in architecture, communications, and politics.
Cohanzick Zoo
Zoo
Cohanzick Zoo is a zoo in Bridgeton, New Jersey. Opened in 1934, it bills itself as New Jersey's first zoo. It houses over 100 animals, representing 45 species.
Sunset Lake
Reservoir
Sunset Lake is a medium-sized reservoir located in and near the city of Bridgeton in southern New Jersey. The reservoir lies mostly in Hopewell Township and Upper Deerfield Township, with a small portion within the Bridgeton city limits. Sunset Lake is situated 1½ miles north of Bridgeton.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bowentown and Gouldtown.
Bowentown
Hamlet
Bowentown is an unincorporated community located within Hopewell Township, in Cumberland County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Located west of Bridgeton, Bowentown got its name from the Bowen family, one of Hopewell Township's first settlers. Bowentown is situated 2½ miles west of Bridgeton.
Gouldtown
Hamlet
Gouldtown is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Cumberland County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is in the northwestern part of the county, in the northeast part of Fairfield Township, and it is bordered to the west by the city of Bridgeton, the county seat. Gouldtown is situated 2½ miles east of Bridgeton.
Hopewell Township
Town
Photo: KLOTZPLATE, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hopewell Township is a township in Cumberland County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is part of the Vineland-Bridgeton metropolitan statistical area, which encompasses those cities and all of Cumberland County for statistical purposes and which constitutes a part of the Delaware Valley. Hopewell Township is situated 3 miles west of Bridgeton.
Bridgeton
- Categories: city in New Jersey, county seat, and locality
- Location: City of Bridgeton, Cumberland County, Delaware River Region, New Jersey, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
39.42734° or 39° 25′ 38″ northLongitude
-75.23408° or 75° 14′ 3″ westPopulation
24,400Elevation
10 feet (3 metres)United Nations Location Code
US BGYOpen location code
87F6CQG8+W9OpenStreetMap ID
node 158348571OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Bridgeton” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بريدجتون”
- Basque: “Bridgeton”
- Bulgarian: “Бриджтън”
- Catalan: “Bridgeton”
- Cebuano: “Bridgeton”
- Chechen: “Бриджтон”
- Chinese: “Bridgeton”
- Chinese: “布里奇頓”
- Chinese: “布里奇顿”
- Dagbani: “Bridgeton”
- Dutch: “Bridgeton”
- Finnish: “Bridgeton”
- French: “Bridgeton”
- German: “Bridgeton”
- Haitian: “Bridgeton, New Jersey”
- Haitian: “Bridgeton”
- Hebrew: “ברידג’טון”
- Hungarian: “Bridgeton”
- Irish: “Bridgeton”
- Italian: “Bridgeton”
- Japanese: “ブリッジトン”
- Kazakh: “Бриджтон”
- Kirghiz: “Бриджтон”
- Korean: “브리지턴”
- Mazanderani: “بریجتون (نیوجرسی)”
- Mazanderani: “بریجتون”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bridgeton”
- Neapolitan: “Bridgeton (New Jersey)”
- Neapolitan: “Bridgeton”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bridgeton”
- Norwegian: “Bridgeton”
- Persian: “بریجتون، نیوجرسی”
- Persian: “بریجتون”
- Polish: “Bridgeton”
- Portuguese: “Bridgeton”
- Russian: “Бриджтон (Нью-Джерси)”
- Russian: “Бриджтон”
- Serbian: “Бриџтон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bridgeton, New Jersey”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bridgeton”
- South Azerbaijani: “بریدجتون، نیوجرسی”
- Spanish: “Bridgeton (Nueva Jersey)”
- Spanish: “Bridgeton”
- Swedish: “Bridgeton, New Jersey”
- Swedish: “Bridgeton”
- Tamil: “பிரிட்ஜடன், நியூ செர்சி”
- Tamil: “பிரிட்ஜடன்”
- Tatar: “Бриджтон”
- Turkish: “Bridgeton, New Jersey”
- Turkish: “Bridgeton”
- Ukrainian: “Бриджтон”
- Urdu: “برجٹن، نیو جرسی”
- Urdu: “برجٹن”
- Uzbek: “Bridgeton”
- Volapük: “Bridgeton (NJ)”
- Volapük: “Bridgeton, New Jersey”
- Volapük: “Bridgeton, NJ”
- Volapük: “Bridgeton”
- Waray (Philippines): “Bridgeton, New Jersey”
- Waray (Philippines): “Bridgeton”
- Welsh: “Bridgeton, New Jersey”
- Welsh: “Bridgeton”
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