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General InformationGeography
Along the New Jersey coast, our borough finds itself straddling the 2 mile Point Pleasant Canal, a significant section of the U.S. Intracoastal Waterway. 90 miles would take one south to Cape May and traveling 30 miles would float one north to Sandy Hook. The Point Pleasant Canal is the northernmost point from which a vessel could travel inland along the Eastern Seaboard of the United States from here a boat could travel to Florida and beyond without entering the more hazardous Atlantic Ocean. Within the borough's boundary lay approximately 4.2 square miles, comprising a population of 19,306 people at a density of about 5,461 people per square mile. Ocean County averages about 800 pp sq. mi. while New Jersey averages about 1,100 pp sq. mi. The country averages slightly more than 80 pp sq. mi. Water borders most of the town. To the north, the Manasquan River separates Point Pleasant from Brielle. The Point Pleasant Canal bisects the borough. To the west, Beaver Dam Creek and its freshwater swamp buffers us from Brick Township. To the south, is Barnegat Bay and the town of Bay Head, and to our east sits our sister community of Point Pleasant Beach. Back to topTransportation
Two mass transportation networks operate in or near Point Pleasant Borough. A commuter railroad has stations within 1 mile of the borough with regular runs to points north. Bus lines follow Route 88 to a major terminal in Lakewood, 9 miles away. With the addition of the borough's own free bus system, no person in the town need walk more than 1/2 mile or 10 minutes to gain access to mass transportation. Click the map at right for a larger version. Back to topPaleontology/AnthropologyThe Environmental Commission Paleo-studies knows' of no significant fossil finds in the borough as of this writing. However, unconfirmed reports indicate the presence of Indian materials in the area of Maxson Avenue at the River. Back to topHydrologyWater forms the life blood of Point Pleasant Borough. Almost twenty miles of shoreline, including numerous lagoons, encompass the borders of the town. Mostly salt water, our rivers, creeks, and bays found use for transportation and as a food sources. Today, though still used somewhat as a source of food, recreational uses predominate. Subsurface waters, located in water bearing formations called aquifers, supply the town with its potable drinking water. Presently the town obtains its water from the Kirkwood, Englishtown, and Raritan-Magothy Aquifers. (Preservation of these three aquifers is vital to the interests of the people. Since these aquifers originally receive their rainwater for recharging out of the town, it is essential we focus on their protection in communities where they outcrop). Our water table, that area immediately below our soils capable of bearing water, is restricted to watering lawn and gardens, as contamination from our surface activities and its limited size eliminates it as a clean water source. Due to the high degree of urbanization, the borough accomplishes drainage with few exceptions, via a system of in-road collectors and pipelines. Unfortunately, the more paving in the community, the less of this water enters our water table and the more of it ends up dumped into our tidal waters and wasted. In the process of being collected and transported off our lands, the water collects and absorbs numerous pollutants. If we are to achieve environmental security, these pollutants must either be dealt with at their source or before dispersal into our waterways. Back to topClimateTemperatures
Average Yearly Temperature - 52° F Rain Fall
Average Yearly - 46 inches Wind Speed9mph from Southeast Growing Season (Frost-free)3/25 - 11/20, 225 days Growing Season (Hardy Vegetables)2/28 - 12/15, 280 days Back to topGeology
Most of the area's underlying sediments were reworked from those of the shoreline, which were originally derived from mountains to the west and north and delivered by the ancient Delaware, Schuylkill and Hudson Rivers, and littoral currents. Back to top
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Located at the northeastern end of Ocean County, New Jersey, the Borough of Point Pleasant lies nearly 35 miles east of Trenton, the state capitol.
Our part of the outer coastal plain emerged from beneath the sea about ten thousand years ago. As they were built from sediments, most subsurface materials consist of various quartz sands, gravels, and clays. No significant rock or pseudo-rock materials outcrop in the town, although in the highlands near the Brick border, occasional small pieces of bog iron sandstone (limonite) are sometimes unearthed.
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