Plainsboro Township

Plainsboro Township is a township situated in southern Middlesex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Centrally located in the Raritan Valley region, the township is an outer-ring suburb of New York City in the New York metropolitan area, even though it is slightly geographically closer to Center City, Philadelphia than to Midtown Manhattan.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center and Princeton Junction Railway Station.

Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center

Hospital

Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center, formerly known as the University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro, is a 355-bed non-profit, tertiary, and academic medical center located in Plainsboro, New Jersey, servicing the Central Jersey area around Princeton.

Princeton Junction Railway Station

Railway station

Princeton Junction station is a railroad station in Princeton Junction, a section of West Windsor Township, Mercer County, New Jersey. The station services both New Jersey Transit's Northeast Corridor Line and Princeton Branch services along with the Carolinian, Keystone Service, and Northeast Regional and of Amtrak. Princeton Junction Railway Station is situated 2½ miles southwest of Plainsboro Township.

Community Middle School

School building

The West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District is a comprehensive high achieving regional public school district in the U.S. state of New Jersey, serving students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade from West Windsor Township and Plainsboro Township.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include West Windsor and Princeton.

West Windsor

Photo: ZeWrestler, Public domain.

West Windsor is a township of 28,000 people in New Jersey. It is among the highest-income municipalities in New Jersey. It is largely made up of expensive houses in carefully groomed developments.

Princeton

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Princeton, home to the prestigious Princeton University, is a municipality with a population of approximately 32,000 in Mercer County, central New Jersey.

Plainsboro Township

Type: Locality
Also known as: “Township of Plainsboro”
Location: Middlesex County, Gateway, New Jersey, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

40.3378° or 40° 20′ 16″ north

Longitude

-74.588° or 74° 35′ 17″ west

Elevation

79 feet (24 metres)

Open location code

87G78CQ6+4Q

GeoNames ID

5102733

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