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Housing Units (2000): 3802
Land area (2000): 1.705674 sq. miles (4.417675 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.705674 sq. miles (4.417675 sq. km)
FIPS code: 06790
Located within: New Jersey (NJ), FIPS 34
Location: 40.565203 N, 74.539513 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 08805
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Bound Brook
Wikipedia
Bound Brook may refer to:
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Bound Brook, New Jersey, a borough in Somerset County
- Battle of Bound Brook
- Bound Brook (NJT station), a railroad station in the above borough
- Bound Brook (Raritan River), a tributary of Green Brook in central New Jersey
- Bound Brook (Massachusetts river), a small river flowing through South Shore (Massachusetts)
Bound Brook is a tributary of the Raritan River in Middlesex County, New Jersey in the United States.
Its name comes from a boundary in an Indian deed. The stream is referred to as Sacunk, a Native American name meaning "slow sluggish stream", on early maps of the area.
It rises in Edison (near Interstate 287 and County Route 501) and flows through the Dismal Swamp. It then flows through South Plainfield and the Cedar Brook joins it southwest of Spring Lake. It continues through Piscataway into New Market Pond, through Middlesex where it flows into the Green Brook at the northwest corner of Mountain View Park.
It gives its name to the borough of Bound Brook, New Jersey.
Bound Brook is a New Jersey Transit railroad station on the Raritan Valley Line, in Bound Brook, New Jersey. The station building on the north side of the tracks is now a restaurant; the other station building on the south side is now privately owned. A pedestrian tunnel connects the south and north sides of the tracks.
The Norfolk and Southern Railroad's Lehigh Line, the railroad's main freight line into the New York City area, (built and formerly owned by the Lehigh Valley Railroad) is a few yards south of the south platform and is used by around 25 freight trains a day.
The station at 350 East Main Street was built in 1913 as a replacement station. This was a part of the Central Railroad of New Jersey Elevation Project from Elizabeth to Somerville (grade crossing removal). The station on the north side of the tracks replaced the original station (circa 1847-8) that was located on the south side of the tracks as built by the railroad then known as The Elizabethtown & Somerville Railroad.
Bound Brook station was listed on the New Jersey Register of Historic Places and the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Operating Passenger Railroad Stations Thematic Resource.