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 Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and Princeton Junction Railway Station.
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Research institute
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The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory for plasma physics and nuclear fusion science. Its primary mission is research into and development of fusion as an energy source.
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 Northeast Regional and Keystone Service 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
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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″ northLongitude
-74.588° or 74° 35′ 17″ westElevation
79 feet (24 metres)Open location code
87G78CQ6+4QGeoNames ID
5102733
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