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Toms River

Toms River is the county seat of , . It is a few miles west of the beaches of the , midway between New York and Philadelphia and a short distance from Atlantic City.
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  • Type: City with 95,400 residents
  • Description: township in Ocean County, New Jersey
  • Also known as: “Dover Township”, “Goose Creek”, “Main Branch Toms River”, “North Branch Toms River”, “Tom’s River”, “Toms Creek”, “Toms River Bay”, “Toms River Township”, “Toms River, New Jersey”, “Toms River, NJ”, and “Township of Dover”
  • Postal codes: 08753-08757
  • Neighbors: , , , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Community Medical Center and Ocean County Library.

Hospital
, known colloquially as CMC, is a fully accredited acute care hospital in Toms River, , serving the entire northern area.

Library
is a public system that serves 32 municipalities out of the 33 municipalities of . on is not a member municipality.

Courthouse
Photo: Jameswelsh, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is located at 118 Washington Street in Toms River in , United States. The historic brick courthouse was constructed from 1850 to 1851 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 16, 1983, for its significance in architecture.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Beachwood and South Toms River.

Town
Photo: Famartin, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a borough situated in the region, within , in the U.S. state of . As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 10,859, a decrease of 186 from the 2010 census count of 11,045, which in turn reflected an increase of 670 from the 10,375 counted in the 2000 census.

Village
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is a borough in , in the U.S. state of . As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 3,643, a decrease of 41 from the 2010 census count of 3,684, which in turn reflected an increase of 50 from the 3,634 counted in the 2000 census.

Village
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is a borough in , in the U.S. state of . As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 2,139, its highest ever decennial count and an increase of 12 from the 2010 census count of 2,127, which in turn reflected an increase of 177 from the 1,950 counted in the 2000 census.

Toms River

Latitude
39.9527° or 39° 57′ 10″ north
Longitude
-74.1968° or 74° 11′ 49″ west
Population
95,400
Elevation
20 feet (6 metres)
IATA airport code
MJX
United Nations Location Codes
US MJX and US XJN
Open location code
87F7XR33+37
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158842781
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4504476
Wiki­data ID
Q1087213
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Toms River” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “تومز ريفر”
  • Bengali: “টমস রিভার”
  • Bulgarian: “Томс Ривър”
  • Catalan: “Dover Township”
  • Catalan: “Toms River”
  • Cebuano: “Toms River”
  • Chinese: “Toms River”
  • Chinese: “汤姆斯里弗”
  • Chinese: “湯姆斯河”
  • Chinese: “湯姆斯里弗”
  • Danish: “Toms River”
  • Dutch: “Toms River”
  • Finnish: “Toms River”
  • French: “Toms River”
  • German: “Toms River”
  • German: “Township of Dover”
  • Greek: “Τομς Ρίβερ”
  • Gujarati: “ટોમ્સ રિવર”
  • Haitian: “Toms River, New Jersey”
  • Haitian: “Toms River”
  • Hebrew: “טומס ריבר”
  • Hebrew: “טומס ריוור”
  • Hindi: “टॉम्स रिवर”
  • Hungarian: “Toms River”
  • Indonesian: “Toms River”
  • Irish: “Toms River”
  • Italian: “Toms River”
  • Japanese: “トムズリバー”
  • Kannada: “ಟಾಮ್ಸ್ ನದಿ”
  • Kazakh: “Toms Rïvér Tawnşïp”
  • Kazakh: “Томс Ривэр Тауншип”
  • Kazakh: “تومس رىيۆەر تاۋنشىيپ”
  • Kirghiz: “Томс Ривэр Тауншип”
  • Korean: “톰스 리버”
  • Korean: “톰스리버”
  • Latvian: “Tomsrivera”
  • Lithuanian: “Toms Riversas”
  • Malay: “Toms River”
  • Marathi: “टोम्स रिव्हर”
  • Mazanderani: “تامز ریور (نیوجرسی)”
  • Mazanderani: “تامز ریور”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Toms River”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Toms River”
  • Norwegian: “Toms River”
  • Persian: “تامز ریور، نیوجرسی”
  • Persian: “تامز ریور”
  • Polish: “Toms River”
  • Portuguese: “Toms River”
  • Russian: “Томс Ривер”
  • Russian: “Томс-Ривер”
  • Serbian: “Томс Ривер”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Toms River, New Jersey”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Toms River”
  • Silesian: “Toms River”
  • Sinhala: “ටොමස් රිවර්”
  • Slovenian: “Toms River”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تومز ریور، نیوجرسی”
  • Spanish: “Municipio de Toms River”
  • Spanish: “Toms River (Nueva Jersey)”
  • Spanish: “Toms River”
  • Swahili: “Toms River”
  • Swedish: “Toms River”
  • Tamil: “டாம்சு ரிவர் நகரியம், நியூ செர்சி”
  • Tamil: “டாம்சு ரிவர் நகரியம்”
  • Telugu: “టామ్స్ రివర్”
  • Thai: “ทอมส์ ริเวอร์”
  • Turkish: “Toms River, New Jersey”
  • Turkish: “Toms River”
  • Ukrainian: “Томс-Рівер”
  • Urdu: “ٹومس ریور”
  • Uzbek: “Toms River, New Jersey”
  • Uzbek: “Toms River”
  • Uzbek: “Томс Ривер”
  • Vietnamese: “Toms River”
  • Volapük: “Toms River, New Jersey”
  • Volapük: “Toms River”
  • Welsh: “Toms River, New Jersey”
  • Welsh: “Toms River”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Toms River”. Photo: Mr. Matté, CC BY 3.0.