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Bay Head

Bay Head is a village of fewer than 1,000 people in , It lies 80 km east of Philadelphia, 110 km south of New York City and 40 km north of Atlantic City, along the Jersey coast.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Bay Head station and Point Pleasant Beach station.

Railway station
Bay Head is a railway station in Bay Head, in , , . The station is served by trains on NJ Transit's North Jersey Coast Line, and it is the southern terminus for the line.

Railway station
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Point Pleasant Beach is a train station located in , in , in the U.S. state of , on NJ Transit's North Jersey Coast Line.

School
is a four-year, comprehensive community high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from in , in the U.S. state of , operating as the lone secondary school of the Point Pleasant Beach School District.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Point Pleasant and Point Pleasant Beach.

Photo: Jim Lukach, CC BY 2.0.
is a small borough in the region. This close-to-the-coast community is often confused with its coastal neighbor, .

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is a small borough in the region. This seaside community is often called Point Pleasant by tourists. In fact , a coastal town that sees a large influx of summer visitors, is a separate political entity from its western neighbor - .

Village
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is a coastal borough in , in the U.S. state of . As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 331, an increase of 35 from the 2010 census count of 296, which in turn reflected a decline of 127 from the 423 counted in the 2000 census. is situated 2 miles south of Bay Head.

Bay Head

Latitude
40.0718° or 40° 4′ 18″ north
Longitude
-74.0543° or 74° 3′ 16″ west
Population
1,050
Elevation
10 feet (3 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US 982
Open location code
87G73WCW+P7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158844548
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
5095432
Wiki­data ID
Q1086404
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Bay Head” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “باي هيد”
  • Asturian: “Bay Head”
  • Basque: “Bay Head”
  • Catalan: “Bay Head”
  • Cebuano: “Bay Head”
  • Chechen: “Бей-Гед”
  • Chinese: “Bay Head”
  • Chinese: “貝黑德”
  • Chinese: “贝黑德”
  • Dutch: “Bay Head”
  • French: “Bay Head”
  • Gilaki: “بی هد (نيۊجرسي)”
  • Gilaki: “بی هد”
  • Haitian: “Bay Head, New Jersey”
  • Haitian: “Bay Head”
  • Italian: “Bay Head”
  • Japanese: “ベイ・ヘッド”
  • Kazakh: “Béý Xïd”
  • Kazakh: “Бэй Хид”
  • Kazakh: “بەي حىيد”
  • Kirghiz: “Бэй Хид”
  • Ladin: “Bay Head”
  • Mazanderani: “بای هد (نیوجرسی)”
  • Mazanderani: “بای هد”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bay Head”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bay Head (New Jersey)”
  • Norwegian: “Bay Head”
  • Persian: “بای هد، نیوجرسی”
  • Persian: “بای هد”
  • Portuguese: “Bay Head”
  • Russian: “Бей-Хед”
  • Serbian: “Беј Хед”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bay Head, New Jersey”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bay Head”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بای هید، نیوجرسی”
  • Spanish: “Bay Head (Nueva Jersey)”
  • Spanish: “Bay Head”
  • Tamil: “பே கெட், நியூ செர்சி”
  • Tamil: “பே கெட்”
  • Tatar: “Бей-Гед”
  • Ukrainian: “Бей-Гед”
  • Uzbek: “Bay Head, New Jersey”
  • Uzbek: “Bay Head”
  • Uzbek: “Бай Ҳеад”
  • Volapük: “Bay Head, New Jersey”
  • Volapük: “Bay Head”
  • Welsh: “Bay Head, New Jersey”
  • Welsh: “Bay Head”

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