Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 1106
Land area (2000): 11.243464 sq. miles (29.120437 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.059735 sq. miles (0.154713 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 11.303199 sq. miles (29.275150 sq. km)
FIPS code: 24300
Located within: New Jersey (NJ), FIPS 34
Location: 40.012869 N, 74.625104 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 08640
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Fort Dix
Wikipedia
Fort Dix, the common name for the Army Support Activity located at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, is a United States Army post. It is located approximately south-southeast of Trenton, New Jersey. The ASA, Ft Dix is under the jurisdiction of the Army Installation Management Command. As of the 2010 United States Census, Fort Dix census-designated place (CDP) had a total population of 7,716, of which 5,951 were in New Hanover Township, 1,765 were in Pemberton Township and none were in Springfield Township (though portions of the CDP are included there).
Fort Dix, established in 1917, was consolidated with an adjoining U.S. Air Force and Navy facility to become part of Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst (JB MDL) on 1 October 2009. However, it remains commonly known as "Fort Dix," "ASA Dix," or "Dix" as of 2015.
Usage examples of "fort dix".
Indeed, if Cleland had dropped a grenade on himself at Fort Dix rather than in Vietnam, he would never have been a U.
Two: While his safety was the responsibility of Fort Dix personnel, and so publicly acknowledged, I have received a call indicating some effort will be made to hold us responsible.
Fort Bragg had the Justice Department itself on the run and should Justice somehow be able to turn this brilliant attack around, it could only hit Fort Dix.
Dressed in olive drab fatigues, he sat across a table from us in the Fort Dix provost marshal's office, looking incorrigibly mean.
Three months before he had sent an entire MP brigade from Fort Bragg to Fort Dix to put down a mutiny by the same unit.
He'd finally written her, but it took a few weeks before her reply found him back at Fort Dix.
Modular Man had been sent here by a sweating major general at Fort Dix, which had turned out to be a training center.
The only distinguishing things about it were it had a muddy lake and was near Fort Dix, one of the big military bases on the East Coast.
He was enrolled in a big high school off-base, somewhere in New Jersey, somewhere near Fort Dix.
At Fort Dix, New Jersey, I was put on the staff as regimental plans and training officer.