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(6/8) Behind the mall in Franklin Mills in Philadelphia.  I'm sure lot's of people went to the mall itself, but did anyone go into the trees, down to the creek beyond the access road?
 
  
 
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(6/9) We're back in Pennsylvania again. This time, it's an access road out to a couple of docks on Van Sciver Lake, in Falls Township, Bucks County. Reachable, unless that whole road is private.
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(6/10) On Ranney Rd., in the Long Valley area of Washington Township, east of Schooleys Mountain Park in Morris County. Reachable and [[Speed Racer]] eligible.
  
 
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: Behind a cookie-cutter house on McConkey Dr, Washington Crossing, Bucks County PA. You have entered a maze of twisty suburban streets, all alike.
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: In the Grove St. parking lot adjacent to Matawan-Aberdeen Middle School, in the Cliffwood area of Matawan, Monmouth County. Reachable! Not too far from the Aberdeen-Matawan NJT station.
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: Within a foot of the parking lot behind an apartment building on Solook Dr., in Parlin, Middlesex County. Reachable!
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Revision as of 14:07, 10 June 2010

Scranton, PA Newburgh, NY Danbury, CT
Allentown, PA Newark New York City
Philadelphia, PA Atlantic City 39,-73

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NewarkRiverside.jpg
A rum keg tapped at both ends.
Benjamin Franklin
The Tollbooth State
George Carlin
Only the Strong Survive
Popular New Jersey T-shirt

The Newark graticule is at 40 N, -74 W. This may be the most populous graticule in the United States, with a population in the neighborhood of 7 million people. It includes almost the entire northern half of New Jersey, the most densely populated state (Census), as well as Staten Island, western sections of Brooklyn and lower Manhattan in New York, and a part of Pennsylvania northeast of Philadelphia. In addition, other than Raritan Bay, there are no large sections of water.

Thanks to Meteorswarm, we have a Facebook group for the "North Jersey" graticule. Meet-ups can be coordinated here or there.

This page is maintained by I am the decider maintainer. Automatic updates are not desired.


Locations

2024-06-01

Coordinates for 2024-06-01: 40.1870146, -74.7168993

(6/10) On Ranney Rd., in the Long Valley area of Washington Township, east of Schooleys Mountain Park in Morris County. Reachable and Speed Racer eligible.


Retrohash

The geohash for the date in the original comic (May 26, 2005) is reachable, in Mill Brook, Morris County. If you make an attempt, tell us about it here!

Cities in this Graticule

New Jersey New York Pennsylvania*
Newark Staten Island New Hope
Jersey City Lower Manhattan Levittown
New Brunswick Parts of Brooklyn Langhorne
Trenton    

 * - We can neither conform nor deny that this graticule intersects the city of Philadelphia. :-)

Local Geohashers

Attempted geohashes

Main page: Category:Meetup in 40 -74
  • Tuesday, March 2: Geohashing party of sorts at Friendly's in the Princeton area.
  • Tuesday, February 22: Veterans Park, Trenton, near the entrance on Klockner Rd. Across from Steinart High School.

Archived geohashing expeditions for 2008 and 2009.

Links

[peeron map]

[Small Hash Inquiry Tool]

[Bing Maps] with Bird's Eye view, better idea of scale and finding paths through complicated terrain.

[Zillow] real estate valuation site, to find out if it's private property / a rough neighborhood / both.

[NJ Transit] for public transportation geohashes

And of course [Wikipedia] to find out which township/borough/county a geohash is in :-)

Wanted: a good bike-map website. NJ Bike Map.com is okay but doesn't include a lot of local bike trails.

Google Maps now has a bike trail layer, which is a good start.

In the Media

On April 26, 2010, during the Casey & Rossi call-in show, a discussion about geocaching prompted a Rutgers student(?) to call in and mention geohashing. They of course mocked us as geeks, but we'll show them! :-)