Squankum, New Jersey

Note: This article is about the unincorporated area in Monmouth County, New Jersey. Squankum is also the former name of Williamstown, New Jersey.

Squankum (Lenape for "place of evil ghosts" or "place where evil spirits dwell"^[2]) is an unincorporated community located within Howell Township in Monmouth County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.^[3][4][5][6] The name Squankum was used for a town in Gloucester County, which was changed to present day Williamstown (see note above), due to postal regulations that prohibited the two towns from having the same name.

Squankum, New Jersey
Unincorporated community
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Coordinates: 40°09′58″N 74°09′14″W
Country	United States
State	New Jersey
County	Monmouth
Township	Howell
Elevation [1]	43 ft (13 m)
Time zone	UTC−05:00 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC−04:00 (EDT)
GNIS feature ID	880830[1]

Description

Located within Howell Township, Squankum is near Allaire State Park. Major county roads in Squankum include CR 524 and CR 547. I-195 provides access to Squankum, along with its neighboring town, Farmingdale, via exit 31B.

See also

• Lower Squankum, New Jersey
• List of place names of Native American origin in New Jersey

References

1. "Squankum". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
2. Roncace, Kelly. "Williamstown traces name back to Lenni-Lenape", Gloucester County Times, March 4, 2012. Accessed November 25, 2017. "The Native Americans referred to the area as Squankum — meaning 'place of evil ghosts' or 'place where evil spirits dwell.' It is thought that the “evil ghosts” might refer to the many mosquitos found in the area."
3. Gordon, Thomas Francis (1834). "A Gazetteer of the State of New Jersey: Comprehending a General View of Its Physical and Moral Condition, Together with a Topographical and Statistical Account of Its Counties, Towns, Villages, Canals, Rail Roads, &c., Accompanied by a Map".
4. Tova Navarra, Tova Navarra (1996), Howell and Farmingdale: A Social and Cultural History, Arcadia Publishing, ISBN 9780738563763
5. "NJDOT Graphic Information System Maps Middlesex" (PDF). New Jersey Department of Transportation. Retrieved March 29, 2020.
6. Locality Search, State of New Jersey. Accessed March 4, 2015.