Stone Harbor, New Jersey Stone Harbor, New Jersey Stone Harbor Borough highlighted in Cape May County.

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Stone Harbor Borough highlighted in Cape May County.

Inset map: Cape May County highlighted in the State of New Jersey.

Enumeration Bureau map of Stone Harbor, New Jersey Enumeration Bureau map of Stone Harbor, New Jersey Stone Harbor is a borough in Cape May County, New Jersey, United States, that is part of the Ocean City Metropolitan Statistical Area.

The New York Times describes Stone Harbor as a place of "gleaming Mc - Mansions and elegant shops", with an average single-family home selling for $2.5 million in 2008. In 2014, Forbes periodical ranked Stone Harbor (ZIP code 08247) as #191 on its list of the most expensive ZIP codes in the United States, based on median home sale prices after being ranked 47th in the magazine's 2006 listing. As of 2001, Worth periodical ranked Stone Harbor at 101 on its list of the Richest Towns in America, based on median annual real estate prices. Stone Harbor was incorporated as a borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 3, 1914, from portions of Middle Township, based on the results of a popular vote held on April 28, 1914.

Stone Harbor borders Avalon Borough, Middle Township, North Wildwood City and the Atlantic Ocean. Stone Harbor 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 Stone Harbor, 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.

Stone Harbor is positioned in the 2nd Congressional District and is part of New Jersey's 1st state legislative district. New Jersey's Second Congressional District is represented by Frank Lo - Biondo (R, Ventnor City). New Jersey is represented in the United States Senate by Cory Booker (D, Newark, term ends 2021) and Bob Menendez (D, Paramus, 2019).

Bruce Land (D, Vineland). The Governor of New Jersey is Chris Christie (R, Mendham Township). The Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey is Kim Guadagno (R, Monmouth Beach). Cape May County is governed by a Board of Chosen Freeholders consisting of five members, propel at-large in partisan elections to three-year terms of office on a staggered basis, with one or two seats coming up for election each year; At an annual reorganization held each January, the freeholders select one member to serve as Director and another to serve as Vice-Director. As of 2015, Cape May County's Freeholders are Freeholder Director Gerald M.

In the 2012 presidential election, Republican Mitt Romney received 64.8% of the vote (411 cast), ahead of Democrat Barack Obama with 34.1% (216 votes), and other candidates with 1.1% (7 votes), among the 640 ballots cast by the borough's 782 registered voters (6 ballots were spoiled), for a turnout of 81.8%. In the 2008 presidential election, Republican John Mc - Cain received 62.7% of the vote (416 cast), ahead of Democrat Barack Obama, who received 36.1% (240 votes), with 664 ballots cast among the borough's 801 registered voters, for a turnout of 82.9%. In the 2004 presidential election, Republican George W.

Starting with the 2011-12 school year, in an agreement with the Avalon School District, enhance school students in grades K-4 from both communities attend school in Stone Harbor while all students in grades 5-8 attend school in Avalon. Students in enhance school for ninth through twelfth grades attend Middle Township High School in Cape May Court House, as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Middle Township Public Schools, together with students from Avalon, Dennis Township and Woodbine. As of the 2013-14 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 807 students and 67.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student teacher ratio of 12.0:1. Water Tower in Stone Harbor, New Jersey The Stone Harbor Water Tower pumping station, assembled in 1924, is the earliest municipal structure still in use in Stone Harbor.

Stone Harbor attractions include The Wetlands Institute, the Stone Harbor Bird Sanctuary and the Stone Harbor Museum. The Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, maintain the Villa Maria by the Sea convent, which opened in June 1937.

It was ranked the tenth-best beach in New Jersey in the 2008 Top 10 Beaches Contest sponsored by the New Jersey Marine Sciences Consortium. See also: Category:People from Cape May County, New Jersey.

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"A Stone Harbor dredging universal aimed at removing about 100,000 cubic yards of silt from the borough's back bays has been shut down by the state after two geotubes floundered recently at the Stone Harbor marina parking lot, releasing mud which seeped through bulkhead openings and into the North Basin, officials said." Locality Search, State of New Jersey.

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"Presidential General Election Results - November 6, 2012 - Cape May County" (PDF).

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District knowledge for Stone Harbor School District, National Center for Education Statistics.

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The school serves the communities of Middle Township, Dennis Township, Avalon, Stone Harbor, and Woodbine Borough." In addition to students from Middle Township, students from Avalon, Dennis Township, Stone Harbor and Woodbine attend the high school as part of sending/receiving relationships." Cape May County Mileage by Municipality and Jurisdiction, New Jersey Department of Transportation, May 2010.

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"Neighboring Wildwood Crest came in second, followed by Ocean City, North Wildwood, Cape May, Asbury Park in Monmouth County, Avalon, Point Pleasant Beach in northern Ocean County, Beach Haven in southern Ocean County and Stone Harbor." Stone Harbor School District's 2015 16 School Report Card from the New Jersey Department of Education Municipalities and communities of Cape May County, New Jersey, United States Avalon Cape May Point Stone Harbor West Cape May West Wildwood Wildwood Crest Woodbine

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