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Quick answers
How Pine Beach began
When was Pine Beach founded?
1910
The Pine Beach post office opened in 1910, the earliest record of the town by name. Wikidata gives 1925.
2020 census: 2,139116 years
How historic is Pine Beach?
C
More historic than 27% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
Founding year: the first Pine Beach post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Wikidata: 1925.
History grade
What drives Pine Beach’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Pine Beach is more historic than 27% of U.S. towns. Its share of homes from before 1940 holds the grade up; its age pulls it down.
C
HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Pine Beach’s overall grade.
New Jersey towns list more on the Register than most of the country (a typical New Jersey town has 3.7 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Pine Beach’s 0.0 sits below most of its state (12% of New Jersey towns have fewer) while its 0 listings outnumber those of 23% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from D− to B−. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±19.4 points). The founding year is the first post office, not a stated founding date; Wikidata’s 1925 falls in the same era, so the grade doesn’t depend on which one is used.
Founding year: the first post office (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →
What stands out about Pine Beach’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Pine Beach yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Pine Beach is a borough in Ocean County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 2,139, its highest ever decennial count and an increase of 12 (+0.6%) from the 2010 census count of 2,127, which in turn reflected an increase of 177 (+9.1%) from the 1,950 counted in the 2000 census. Pine Beach was incorporated as a borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 26, 1925, from portions of Berkeley Township.
Its first post office opened in 1910. Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 2,127 in 2010, 2,139 in 2020.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Timeline
Pine Beach, 1910 to 1961
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
The Pine Beach post office opened in 1910, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records). Wikidata gives 1925.
How does Pine Beach rank for history?
Pine Beach is more historic than 27% of U.S. towns. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
How old are the homes in Pine Beach?
25% of Pine Beach’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±19.4 points), against a typical 15% for a New Jersey town; the median home was built in 1961.
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).
From Wikimedia Commons (6), Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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