Bayville, New Jersey
Bayville, New Jersey | |
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| Nickname: Bville | |
  Bayville, New Jersey Bayville's location in Ocean County (Inset: Ocean County in New Jersey)  Bayville, New Jersey Bayville, New Jersey (New Jersey)  Bayville, New Jersey Bayville, New Jersey (the United States) | |
| Coordinates: 39°54′33″N 74°09′18″W / 39.90917°N 74.15500°W | |
| Country |  United States |
| State |  New Jersey |
| County | Ocean |
| Township | Berkeley |
| Elevation | 36 ft (11 m) |
| Population | |
| • Total | 20,512 |
| ZIP code | |
| GNIS feature ID | 0874560[4] |
Bayville is an unincorporated community located within Berkeley Township in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States.[5] The area is served as United States Postal Service ZIP Code 08721. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population for ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) 08721 was 20,512.[1] Central Regional High School is the local high school for the area.
Bayville is home to Double Trouble State Park, the site of an Ocean Spray cranberry bog, and is said to be haunted by the New Jersey Devil and Glenn "the Maniac" Strange.
Notable people
People who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Bayville include:
- Jazmyn Foberg (born 2000), artistic gymnast who was the 2014 US Junior National All-Around and Uneven Bars Champion.[6]
- Al Leiter (born 1965), baseball pitcher.[7]
- Megan McCafferty (born 1973), author best known for her Jessica Darling series.[8]
References
- ^ a b DP-1 - Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 from 2010 Demographic Profile Data for ZCTA5 08721, United States Census Bureau. Accessed July 9, 2015.
- ^ Look Up a ZIP Code for Bayville, NJ, United States Postal Service. Accessed August 27, 2013.
- ^ Zip Codes, State of New Jersey. Accessed August 27, 2013.
- ^ "Bayville". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2012-09-23.
- ^ Locality Search, State of New Jersey. Accessed June 9, 2016.
- ^ Wall, Karen. "All That Jazzy: Berkeley Gymnast Wins National Championship; Jazmyn Foberg, 14, earns all-around title at U.S. Junior National Championships", Berkeley Patch, August 23, 2014. Accessed October 12, 2015. "Berkeley gymnast Jazmyn Foberg is the new junior national gymnastics all-around champion."
- ^ Al Leiter, YES Network. Accessed January 6, 2013. "Leiter is a native of Bayville, N.J. While in high school there, he was a baseball All-American and in appeared in Sports Illustrated's "Faces in the Crowd" after striking out 32 batters in 14.1 innings in a game."
- ^ Ervolino, Bill. "Jessica's a step behind her author", The Record (Bergen County), September 9, 2007. "Like her heroine, McCafferty knows her way around the Garden State, having grown up in Bayville before moving to Brooklyn and Manhattan and then getting married and settling in -- ahem -- Princeton."
