Fort Hancock
Fort Hancock is a former United States Army fort at Sandy Hook in Middletown Township, New Jersey. The coastal artillery base defended the Atlantic coast and the entrance to New York Harbor, with its first gun batteries operational in 1896.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Wikijazz, Public domain.
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: fort at Sandy Hook, New Jersey
- Also known as: “Fort Hancock, New Jersey”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sandy Hook and Sandy Hook Light.
Sandy Hook
Photo: NHRHS2010, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sandy Hook is a narrow land spit on the Atlantic coast of New Jersey. It is owned by the Federal Government and most is managed by the National Park Service as one of three units comprising Gateway National Recreation Area.
Sandy Hook Light
Lighthouse
Photo: MichaelMottl, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Sandy Hook Lighthouse, located about one and a half statute miles inland from the tip of Sandy Hook, New Jersey, is the oldest working lighthouse in the United States.
Marine Academy of Science and Technology
School
The Marine Academy of Science and Technology is a coeducational four-year magnet public high school located in the Sandy Hook section of Middletown Township, in Monmouth County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, serving students in ninth through twelfth grade.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hilton and Waterwitch.
Hilton
Hamlet
Atlantic Highlands is a borough in Monmouth County in the U.S. state of New Jersey, in the Bayshore Region. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 4,414, an increase of 29 from the 2010 census count of 4,385, which in turn reflected a decline of 320 from the 4,705 in the 2000 census. Hilton is situated 3½ miles south of Fort Hancock.
Waterwitch
Hamlet
Highlands is a borough in northern Monmouth County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. A historic waterfront community located on the Raritan Bay within the Raritan Valley region, this scenic borough is a commuter town of New York City in the New York metropolitan area. Waterwitch is situated 4 miles south of Fort Hancock.
Monmouth Hills
Hamlet
Middletown Township is a township in northern Monmouth County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the township was the state's 20th-most-populous municipality and the largest in the county, with a population of 67,106… Monmouth Hills is situated 4 miles south of Fort Hancock.
Fort Hancock
- Categories: fort and locality
- Location: Middletown, Monmouth County, Jersey Shore, New Jersey, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
40.464° or 40° 27′ 50″ northLongitude
-74.00264° or 74° 0′ 10″ westElevation
13 feet (4 metres)Open location code
87G7FX7W+HWOpenStreetMap ID
node 158856064OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Hebrew—“Fort Hancock” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “漢考克堡”
- Egyptian Arabic: “حصن هانكوك”
- French: “fort Hancock”
- French: “Fort Hancock”
- German: “Fort Hancock”
- Hebrew: “פורט האנקוק (ניו ג’רזי)”
- Hebrew: “פורט האנקוק”
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