Green Pond, New Jersey
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| Location | Morris County, New Jersey |
| Coordinates | 41°00′23″N 74°29′35″W / 41.006341°N 74.493056°W |
| Basin countries | United States |
| Surface area | 465 acres (1.88 km2) |
| Max. depth | 86 ft (26 m) |
| Surface elevation | 1,040 ft (320 m) |
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| Unincorporated community | |
 Green Pond, New Jersey
Green Pond's location in Morris County (Inset: Morris County in New Jersey)
Green Pond, New Jersey
Green Pond, New Jersey (New Jersey)
Green Pond, New Jersey
Green Pond, New Jersey (the US)
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| Coordinates: 41°01′02″N 74°28′40″W / 41.01722°N 74.47778°WCoordinates: 41°01′02″N 74°28′40″W / 41.01722°N 74.47778°W | |
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 United States
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| State |
 New Jersey
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| County | Morris |
| Township | Rockaway |
| Elevation | 321 m (1,053 ft) |
| Time zone | Eastern (EST) (UTC-5) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
| GNIS feature ID | 876786 |
Green Pond is the name of both a lake and of a private lakeside residential unincorporated community within Rockaway Township in Morris County, New Jersey, United States. The lakeside community is managed by two corporations, Green Pond Corporation and Lake End Corporation. Despite a name suggestive of a small lily pad and algae-coated pool, Green Pond lake is fairly large (approximately 2.5 mi long and 0.5 mi mile in breadth at its widest point - 465 acres (0.72 sq mi) total), and the water clarity is high due to the lake's source (underground cold-water springs).
Green Pond is located in Rockaway Township in Morris County, but has a Newfoundland, New Jersey (Passaic County) mailing address. Newfoundland came to wider attention in 2003 when large portions of the independent film, The Station Agent, were filmed there. Several scenes of this film took place on Green Pond Road (County Route 513), a public thoroughfare which connects a former New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway depot and Route 23 to Lake End Road and to the private lanes of the Green Pond Village community. Lakeside scenes of The Station Agent that were set on Green Pond were actually filmed elsewhere, as the Lake End and Green Pond Corporations denied lake access to the filmmakers.
New homeowners in either Green Pond or Lake End Corporations pay a fee to the relevant corporation in addition to the usual real estate closing fees, and become "stockholders" in exchange for an interest in the common lands which surround the community. Only stockholders and their guests (who are required to wear ID) may access the lake and the community facilities, which include tennis courts, ballfields, a community center, and a membership-only yacht club that races Comet sailboats. On summer weekends and major holidays, a security guard is stationed at the entrance to Green Pond village to prevent unauthorized access to the beach areas.
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