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Toms River, NJ -- U.S. Census Designated Place in New Jersey
Population (2000): 86327
Housing Units (2000): 34375
Land area (2000): 39.370601 sq. miles (101.969383 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.236786 sq. miles (3.203261 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 40.607387 sq. miles (105.172644 sq. km)
FIPS code: 73110
Located within: New Jersey (NJ), FIPS 34
Location: 39.979270 N, 74.167512 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 08753 08755 08757
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Toms River (disambiguation)

Toms River is a freshwater river and estuary in New Jersey

Toms River may also refer to:

Toms River (book)

Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation (2013) is a non-fiction book by American author Dan Fagin. It is about the dumping of industrial pollution by chemical companies in Toms River, New Jersey beginning in 1952 through the 1980s, and the epidemiological investigations of a cancer cluster that subsequently emerged there. The book won the Pulitzer Prize in 2014 for General Nonfiction. Abigail Zuger, writing in the New York Times, said it was "surely a new classic of science reporting".

Usage examples of "toms river".

After a mad scramble to ascertain her identity, she was tracked to a motel in Toms River, New Jersey.