Sea Bright, New Jersey
| Sea Bright, New Jersey | |
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| Borough | |
| Borough of Sea Bright | |
Downtown Sea Bright
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 Map of Sea Bright in Monmouth County. Inset: Location of Monmouth County highlighted in the State of New Jersey. |
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 Census Bureau map of Sea Bright, New Jersey |
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| Coordinates: 40°21′32″N 73°58′28″W / 40.358927°N 73.974343°WCoordinates: 40°21′32″N 73°58′28″W / 40.358927°N 73.974343°W | |
| Country |
 United States
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| State |
 New Jersey
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| County | Monmouth |
| Incorporated | March 21, 1889 |
| Government | |
| • Type | Borough |
| • Body | Borough Council |
| • Mayor | Dina Long (I, term ends December 31, 2019) |
| • Administrator | Joseph Verruni (acting) |
| • Clerk | Christine Pfeiffer |
| Area | |
| • Total | 1.287 sq mi (3.333 km2) |
| • Land | 0.730 sq mi (1.890 km2) |
| • Water | 0.557 sq mi (1.443 km2) 43.30% |
| Area rank | 475th of 566 in state 42nd of 53 in county |
| Elevation | 0 ft (0 m) |
| Population (2010 Census) | |
| • Total | 1,412 |
| • Estimate (2015) | 1,344 |
| • Rank | 517th of 566 in state 46th of 53 in county |
| • Density | 1,935.5/sq mi (747.3/km2) |
| • Density rank | 296th of 566 in state 34th of 53 in county |
| Time zone | Eastern (EST) (UTC-5) |
| • Summer (DST) | Eastern (EDT) (UTC-4) |
| ZIP code | 07760 |
| Area code(s) | 732 |
| FIPS code | 3402566240 |
| GNIS feature ID | 0885387 |
| Website | www |
Sea Bright is a borough in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough's population was 1,412, reflecting a decline of 406 (-22.3%) from the 1,818 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 125 (+7.4%) from the 1,693 counted in the 1990 Census.
Sea Bright was formed as a borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 21, 1889, from portions of Ocean Township, based on the results of a referendum held the previous day. The borough was reincorporated on March 10, 1897. Additional portions of Ocean Township were annexed by the borough in March 1909. The borough was named for Sea Bright, England.
Settlement in the area of Sea Bright began in the early 1840s, with a fishing community of simple shacks near the beach dunes that was called "Nauvoo". While many local historians had interpreted the name as a Native American word, the origin of "Nauvoo" is Sephardic Hebrew, from the same word that Mormon leader Joseph Smith gave to the Illinois town he founded in 1839. Meaning literally "beautiful or pleasant place," New Jersey's Nauvoo might well have been named by Smith, as he visited Monmouth County in 1840.
One of the earliest accounts of the barrier beach, published a dozen years before Sea Bright's existence, describes a steamboat journey from New York to the Ocean House, a low rambling wooden structure situated on the beach opposite the mouth of the Navesink River. Built in 1842, this first hotel on the sandy strip offered "excellent fishing, fine sea bathing and capital accommodations" for three hundred patrons. Around this time the Sea Bright Skiff was developed in the Northern Jersey Shore. At the Ocean House one "found a number of beach carriages", as they are called, awaiting the arrival of the boat from New York City to take passengers to Long Branch.
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