Newark, New Jersey

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

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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.

Daily Locations

Coordinates for 2010-01-08: 40.7931022, -74.7284049

Behind a house on a private road near Tanners Brook Road, in Chester, Warren County. Might be able to get within 10m depending on the state of the construction at the end of Tanners Brook Road itself.

Coordinates for 2010-01-09: 40.3445266, -74.7865796

Along the edge of a farm on Willow Creek Drive, Pennington, Mercer County. There is a drainage lot right next to the point which may not be private property, but there's no right-of-way to get to it.

Coordinates for 2010-01-10: 40.2293420, -74.7467636

Behind a block of row houses on Taylor Ave., East Trenton. A walkway in Sony Vereen Playground will get you close enough, so I'm calling this reachable.

Links

[peeron map]

[Small Hash Inquiry Tool]

[Bing Maps (with Bird's Eye view)]

[Zillow] real estate valuation site so know 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.

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

Attempted geohashes -- 2009

Main page: Category:Meetup in 40 -74
  • Saturday, October 10: I don't know why I thought one hour was enough time to find a geohash in a swamp. Even in Woodbridge.
  • Tuesday, June 2: The geohash is only a couple of miles from Jevanyn's house, so he's going to try to bike there, if the weather cooperates.
  • Monday, May 11: Jevanyn planned on a bicycle geohash 7 miles from work, but he didn't plan on getting squished by traffic on the way there.

2008 geohashing expeditions have been archived.