Lookout Mountain (New Jersey)

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Lookout Mountain
Highest point
Elevation 1,165 ft (355 m)   NGVD 29 [1]
Coordinates 40°56′50″N74°39′32″W / 40.9473205°N 74.6587727°W / 40.9473205; -74.6587727 Coordinates: 40°56′50″N74°39′32″W / 40.9473205°N 74.6587727°W / 40.9473205; -74.6587727 [2]  
Geography
Location Sussex County, New Jersey, U.S.
Topo map USGS Stanhope
Climbing
Easiest route Road

Lookout Mountain is a mountain in Sussex County, New Jersey. The summit rises to 1,165 feet (355 m), and is located in the Borough of Hopatcong, overlooking the River Styx, a bay of Lake Hopatcong. It is part of the New York–New Jersey Highlands of the Appalachian Mountains.

Sussex County, New Jersey County in the United States

Sussex County is the northernmost county in the State of New Jersey. Its county seat is Newton. It is part of the New York Metropolitan Area and is part of the state's Skylands Region, a term promoted by the New Jersey Commerce, Economic Growth, & Tourism Commission to encourage tourism. As of the 2017 Census estimate, the county's population was 141,682, making it the 17th-most populous of the state's 21 counties, a 5.1% decrease from the 149,265 enumerated in the 2010 United States Census, in turn an increase of 5,099 (3.5%) over the 144,166 persons enumerated in the 2000 Census. Based on 2010 Census data, Vernon Township was the county's largest in both population and area, with a population of 23,943 and covering an area of 70.59 square miles (182.8 km2).

New Jersey State of the United States of America

New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. It is located on a peninsula, bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, particularly along the extent of the length of New York City on its western edge; on the east, southeast, and south by the Atlantic Ocean; on the west by the Delaware River and Pennsylvania; and on the southwest by the Delaware Bay and Delaware. New Jersey is the fourth-smallest state by area but the 11th-most populous, with 9 million residents as of 2017, and the most densely populated of the 50 U.S. states; its biggest city is Newark. New Jersey lies completely within the combined statistical areas of New York City and Philadelphia. New Jersey was the second-wealthiest U.S. state by median household income as of 2017.

A borough, in the context of local government in the U.S. state of New Jersey, refers to one of five types and one of eleven forms of municipal government.

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Hopatcong High School

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Landing, New Jersey Unincorporated community in New Jersey, United States

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Landing Masonry Bridge bridge in United States of America

The Landing Masonry Bridge, also designated Bridge 44.53, is a 136-foot (41 m) stone structure built in 1907 by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad in Landing, New Jersey, United States. Located 44.53 miles up the rail line from Hoboken Terminal, the bridge carries the two-lane Morris County Route 631 over the Morristown Line and Montclair-Boonton Line railroad tracks maintained by New Jersey Transit, and sits several hundred feet north of NJT's Lake Hopatcong Station. Now deteriorated and structurally deficient, it is to be replaced with a four-lane bridge by NJT and the New Jersey Department of Transportation.

The Northwest Jersey Athletic Conference (NJAC) is a sports league that includes public and private high schools from Morris County, Sussex County and Warren County, New Jersey, that operates under the auspices of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association.

Elizabeth "Bette" Cooper-Moore won the Miss America 1937 pageant as Miss Bertrand Island, representing an amusement park on Lake Hopatcong in New Jersey.

Glasser, New Jersey Place in New Jersey, United States

Glasser is an area within the Northwood section of the Borough of Hopatcong, New Jersey. While not officially a municipality, the area was granted its own ZIP Code (07837) in 1933 by the US Postal Service. Currently the area contains a small US Post Office, several residential apartments and bungalows, and a restaurant & bar overlooking Lake Hopatcong. Nearby residents get their mail delivered to PO boxes at the Glasser Post Office.

References

  1. ↑ Verified elevation from USGS topographic map Stanhope
  2. ↑ "Lookout Mountain". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . Retrieved 2014-05-02.
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