Newark, New Jersey

Scranton, PA	Newburgh, NY	Danbury, CT
Allentown, PA	Newark	New York City
Philadelphia, PA	Atlantic City	39,-73
Today's location: not yet announced

“	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

Weekend of 2024-05-17

Coordinates for 2010-05-14: 40.9501352, -74.5484006

Smack in the middle of Picatinny Arsenal, in Dover, Warren County. Authorized access only. The Atlantic City is also reasonably close, but might be inaccessible.

Coordinates for 2010-05-15: 40.0578407, -74.6411199

A farm on Monmouth Rd., east of NJ-68, in Jobstown, Springfield Township, Burlington County. Near Fort Dix and McGuire AFB. No truth to the rumor that Steve Jobs actually owns the town. Private Property. The Newburgh geohash is close as well, and appears to be reachable.

Coordinates for 2010-05-16: 40.9723779, -74.7647325

In the woods south of Whitehall Rd., near Trinca Airport in Andover, Sussex County. The geohash for Atlantic City is also close but not accessible.

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

Local Geohashers

• Madalis
• bjimba
• krip
• trntr
• TorsionalMetric
• Direwulf
• Jevanyn
• LangleyLGLF (When @Rutgers)
• Esteban
• Science Works!
• sve
• Zubenelgenubi
• Mike
• darko
• jimpoz
• RminusQ
• Brandon 20px and his father
• GISninja
• BlastOButter42, but probably only if it's near the city and New York's isn't closer
• AlexF
• Knitting Duck
• Flashbullzeye
• Kyukket
• dieKatze88

Attempted geohashes

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• Miercoles, 5 Mayo: Cinco de Mayo bicicleta geohash!

• Thursday, April 1: April Fools' Day Holy/Tron geohash!

• Monday, March 22: Geo-passing-through.

• Saturday, March 20: Geohashing and a walk in the park.

• Monday, March 8: I was just here, too!

• Thursday, March 4: Jevanyn has driven past the house a dozen times. But can I prove it?

• Tuesday, March 2: Geohashing party of sorts at Friendly's in the Princeton area.

• Sunday, February 28: An easy first geohash for dieKatze88 near Drew University.

• Tuesday, February 22: Veterans Park, Trenton, near the entrance on Klockner Rd. Across from Steinart High School.

• Saturday, February 13: Tried for a meet-up at Woodbridge Mall.

• Monday, February 1: A chilly evening geohash, but only two towns from home for Jevanyn.

• Saturday, January 23: Saturday's geohash was a walk in the park, literally!

• Tuesday, January 5: Jevanyn tried for a birthday geohash with his new GPS, but the location was not reachable.

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! :-)