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History · Diamond Beach

Half of Diamond Beach’s homes were built after 1994

Most of Diamond Beach was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1994.

0on the National Register
0.0%homes built before 1940
Photo: Luigi Novi · CC BY 3.0

What stands out about Diamond Beach’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

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Start Diamond Beach’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Diamond Beach’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
The story so far

Diamond Beach, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Diamond Beach yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Diamond Beach is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) located within Lower Township in Cape May County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The CDP, and all of Cape May County, is part of the Ocean City metropolitan statistical area, and is part of the Philadelphia metropolitan area. As of the United States 2020 Census, the CDP's population was 203, an increase of 67 from the 2010 census count of 136.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 136 to 203 (+49%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

By decade

Diamond Beach, decade by decade

Famous people

Famous people close to Diamond Beach

Nobody well known was born in Diamond Beach itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Questions about Diamond Beach’s history

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (6). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.