Bay Head, New Jersey Bay Head, New Jersey Map of Bay Head in Ocean County.

Inset: Location of Ocean County highlighted in the State of New Jersey.

Map of Bay Head in Ocean County.

Inset: Location of Ocean County highlighted in the State of New Jersey.

Enumeration Bureau map of Bay Head, New Jersey Enumeration Bureau map of Bay Head, New Jersey Bay Head is a borough in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States.

As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough's populace was 968, reflecting a diminish of 270 (-21.8%) from the 1,238 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 12 (+1.0%) from the 1,226 counted in the 1990 Census. Bay Head is situated on the Barnegat Peninsula, also known as Barnegat Bay Island, a long, narrow barrier island that separates Barnegat Bay from the Atlantic Ocean.

Together with Mantoloking and Point Pleasant, Bay Head is considered part of the Jersey Shore's "Gold Coast". Bay Head was incorporated as a Borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on June 15, 1886, from portions of Brick Township, based on the results of a popular vote held three days earlier. In 1882, Bay Head had 20 new cottages and a populace of 75.

The Bay Head Historic District, listed in the New Jersey and the National Registers of Historic places in 2005, includes over 550 contributing structures (over half of the town's buildings) making it one of the biggest historic districts in New Jersey. Bay Head's historic precinct is architecturally momentous for its large compilation of well-preserved Shingle Style, Stick Style, and Queen Anne Style structures.

Bay Head is governed under the Borough form of New Jersey municipal government.

The Borough Council consists of six members propel to serve three-year terms on a staggered basis, with two seats coming up for election each year in a three-year cycle. The Borough form of government used by Bay Head, the most common fitness used in the state, is a "weak mayor / strong council" government in which council members act as the legislative body with the mayor presiding at meetings and voting only in the event of a tie.

Curtis, whose term of office ends December 31, 2019. Members of the Bay Head Borough Council are Council President D'Arcy Rohan Green (R, 2018), Jennifer Barnes-Gambert (R, 2017), Mary Stockton Glass (R, 2018), Robert F.

Bay Head is positioned in the 4th Congressional precinct and is part of New Jersey's 10th state legislative district. New Jersey's Fourth Congressional District is represented by Christopher Smith (R). New Jersey is represented in the United States Senate by Cory Booker (D, Newark, term ends 2021) and Bob Menendez (D, Paramus, 2019).

Wolfe (R, Brick Township). The Governor of New Jersey is Chris Christie (R, Mendham Township). The Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey is Kim Guadagno (R, Monmouth Beach). Ocean County is governed by a Board of Chosen Freeholders consisting of five members, propel on an at-large basis in partisan elections and serving staggered three-year terms of office, with either one or two seats coming up for election each year as part of the November general election. At an annual reorganization held in the beginning of January, the board chooses a Director and a Deputy Director from among its members.

In the 2012 presidential election, Republican Mitt Romney received 66.2% of the vote (374 cast), ahead of Democrat Barack Obama with 33.3% (188 votes), and other candidates with 0.5% (3 votes), among the 569 ballots cast by the borough's 852 registered voters (4 ballots were spoiled), for a turnout of 66.8%. In the 2008 presidential election, Republican John Mc - Cain received 62.9% of the vote (443 cast), ahead of Democrat Barack Obama with 34.9% (246 votes) and other candidates with 1.0% (7 votes), among the 704 ballots cast by the borough's 915 registered voters, for a turnout of 76.9%. In the 2004 presidential election, Republican George W.

The Bay Head School District serves students in enhance school for kindergarten through eighth undertaking at Bay Head Elementary School. As of the 2014-15 school year, the precinct and its one school had an enrollment of 95 students and 12.7 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student teacher ratio of 7.5:1. Students in enhance school for ninth through twelfth grades attend Point Pleasant Beach High School in Point Pleasant Beach, as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Point Pleasant Beach School District, together with students from Lavallette and Mantoloking. As of the 2014-15 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 371 students and 31.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student teacher ratio of 11.7:1. As of May 2010, the borough had a total of 10.74 miles (17.28 km) of roadways, of which 8.24 miles (13.26 km) were maintained by the municipality, 1.16 miles (1.87 km) by Ocean County and 1.34 miles (2.16 km) by the New Jersey Department of Transportation. NJ Transit trains terminate at the Bay Head station and yard, with service on the North Jersey Coast Line north to Penn Station Newark, Hoboken Terminal and Penn Station New York in Midtown Manhattan. See also: Category:People from Bay Head, New Jersey.

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"Noted O'Brien, 'We've been very, very prosperous in appealing to the mostly well-to-do improve here in Bay Head, Point Pleasant and Mantoloking, the Gold Coast of the Jersey Shore, at least amid the summer.'" The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries: 1606-1968, Bureau of Geology and Topography; Trenton, New Jersey; 1969.

Accessed March 20, 2012."In the 1870's three New Jersey bankers formed the Bayhead Land Company and divided the area's farms, woods and cranberry bogs into building lots.

The rail line, laid soon afterward, opened the beach to financiers and industrialists from New York and North Jersey, and Bay Head became one of New Jersey's most high-end resorts." The Origin of New Jersey Place Names, New Jersey Public Library Commission, May 1945.

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"Long-Buried Seawall Protected Homes From Hurricane: Sandy's Record Storm Surge Virginia Tech researchers say relic seawall came in handy for New Jersey town".

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"While most well-heeled New Yorkers head east to their widespread Hamptons manses every weekend, cosmetics kingpin Bobbi Brown goes south to the considerably more laid-back Bay Head on the Jersey Shore." Genealogical and Personal Memorial of Mercer County, New Jersey, Vol.

Kellogg 3d, a stockbroker and former chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, died of a stroke yesterday at Point Pleasant Hospital in Point Pleasant, N.J.

"The author is Paul Mulshine of Bay Head, Ocean County.

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