Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 3640
Land area (2000): 2.279296 sq. miles (5.903350 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.116248 sq. miles (0.301082 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.395544 sq. miles (6.204432 sq. km)
FIPS code: 44520
Located within: New Jersey (NJ), FIPS 34
Location: 40.411290 N, 74.234906 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 07747
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Matawan
Wikipedia
Matawan, or the similarly spelled Mattawan, Mattewan, Matteawan, or Matewan may refer to:
- Matawan, New Jersey, a borough in Monmouth County
:*Matawan (or Matavan) Township, a former name of Aberdeen Township, New Jersey, in Monmouth County
:* Matawan Regional High School, in Aberdeen Township, New Jersey
:* Matawan Creek, a stream in northeastern New Jersey
- Matewan, West Virginia, a town in Mingo County
:* Battle of Matewan or "Matewan massacre"; a 1920 coal mine-workers' strike and attempt to unionize in Matewan, West Virginia
:* Matewan, a 1987 film based on the Battle of Matewan
- Mattawan, Michigan, United States
- Mattawan, Ontario, Canada
- Matteawan, New York, a former village that is one of the constituent communities of the city of Beacon, New York
Usage examples of "matawan".
So it was on just such a train ride, somewhere between Newark and Matawan, that I pulled out of its envelope a slim little manuscript called "The Coldest Place," by some previously unknown person who said his name was Larry Niven.
He had been born in Matawan, New Jersey, had attended college at the University of Chicago and had gone into social work out of a mixture of emotions.