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Fanwood

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  • Type: Town with 7,700 residents
  • Description: borough in Union County, New Jersey, United States
  • Also known as: “Fanwood Borough”, “Fanwood, New Jersey”, and “Fanwood, NJ”
  • Postal code: 07023
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Fanwood station and Shady Rest Country Club.

Railway station
Photo: Jrballe, CC BY 3.0.
Fanwood is a New Jersey Transit railroad station on the Raritan Valley Line, in Fanwood, , , United States. The building on the north side of the tracks is a Victorian building and, like the north building at Westfield, is used by a non-profit organization.

Golf course
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The is located at 820 Jerusalem Road in in . Established in 1921, Shady Rest was the first African-American country club in the United States.

Church
Photo: KLOTZ, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a historic Baptist church located at Park Avenue in . It was added to the National Register of Historic Places as part of the , Parsonage, and Cemetery listing on June 14, 2013.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Scotch Plains and Westfield.

Photo: Jared Kofsky, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a town in , . This article also covers the neighboring communities of Fanwood and Plainfield.

Town
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is a town in , in the U.S. state of , located 16 miles southwest of . As of the 2020 United States census, the town's population was 31,032, an increase of 716 from the 2010 census count of 30,316, which in turn reflected an increase of 672 from the 29,644 counted in the 2000 census. is situated 2 miles east of Fanwood.

Town
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Union County is part of the Gateway region of that is covered by sprawling metropolitan areas of . is situated 2½ miles southwest of Fanwood.

Fanwood

Latitude
40.64096° or 40° 38′ 27″ north
Longitude
-74.38385° or 74° 23′ 2″ west
Population
7,700
Elevation
161 feet (49 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US FWJ
Open location code
87G7JJR8+9F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158860116
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
5097830
Wiki­data ID
Q949850
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Fanwood” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “فانوود”
  • Asturian: “Fanwood”
  • Basque: “Fanwood”
  • Catalan: “Fanwood”
  • Cebuano: “Fanwood”
  • Chechen: “Фенвуд”
  • Chinese: “Fanwood”
  • Chinese: “凡伍德”
  • Chinese: “范伍德”
  • Dutch: “Fanwood”
  • French: “Fanwood”
  • German: “Fanwood”
  • Gilaki: “فانوۊد (نيۊجرسي)”
  • Gilaki: “فانوۊد”
  • Haitian: “Fanwood, New Jersey”
  • Haitian: “Fanwood”
  • Hebrew: “פאנווד”
  • Italian: “Fanwood”
  • Japanese: “ファンウッド”
  • Kazakh: “Фанвуд”
  • Kirghiz: “Фанвуд”
  • Ladin: “Fanwood”
  • Mazanderani: “فانوود (نیوجرسی)”
  • Mazanderani: “فانوود”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Fanwood”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Fanwood (New Jersey)”
  • Norwegian: “Fanwood”
  • Persian: “فانوود، نیوجرسی”
  • Persian: “فانوود”
  • Polish: “Fanwood”
  • Portuguese: “Fanwood”
  • Russian: “Фэнвуд”
  • Serbian: “Фанвуд”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Fanwood, New Jersey”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Fanwood”
  • South Azerbaijani: “فانوود، نیوجرسی”
  • Spanish: “Fanwood”
  • Swahili: “Fanwood, New Jersey”
  • Swahili: “Fanwood”
  • Tatar: “Фенвуд”
  • Turkish: “Fanwood, New Jersey”
  • Turkish: “Fanwood”
  • Ukrainian: “Фенвуд”
  • Uzbek: “Fanwood”
  • Volapük: “Fanwood”
  • Welsh: “Fanwood, New Jersey”
  • Welsh: “Fanwood”

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Fanwood Post Office and Fanwood Station.

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