Official Name: | Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey |
Settlement Type: | Census-designated place |
Pushpin Map: | USA New Jersey Morris County#USA New Jersey#USA |
Pushpin Label: | Lake Hopatcong |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Morris County##Location in New Jersey##Location in the United States |
Pushpin Relief: | yes |
Coordinates: | 40.9608°N -74.6128°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | United States |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Morris |
Subdivision Type3: | Township |
Subdivision Name3: | Jefferson |
Area Footnotes: | [1] |
Area Total Sq Mi: | 9.39 |
Area Land Sq Mi: | 7.39 |
Area Water Sq Mi: | 2.00 |
Area Total Km2: | 24.32 |
Area Land Km2: | 19.13 |
Area Water Km2: | 5.19 |
Population As Of: | 2020 |
Population Footnotes: | [2] |
Population Total: | 10232 |
Population Density Km2: | 534.90 |
Population Density Sq Mi: | 1385.32 |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Timezone: | Eastern (EST) |
Utc Offset: | −05:00 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | −04:00 |
Elevation Ft: | 930 |
Postal Code Type: | ZIP Code |
Postal Code: | 07849 |
Area Code: | 973/862 |
Blank Name: | FIPS code |
Blank Info: | [3] |
Blank1 Name: | GNIS feature ID |
Blank1 Info: | 2806109 |
Lake Hopatcong is a census-designated place (CDP)[4] located in Jefferson Township, Morris County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It includes communities on the northeast side of Lake Hopatcong, the largest freshwater body in the state.
Lakefront communities in the CDP include Espanong, Prospect Point, Raccoon Island, and Woodport, and inland communities include Hurdtown, Tierneys Corner, and Berkshire Valley. The CDP is bordered to the west, across the lake, by the borough of Hopatcong in Sussex County, and to the south it is bordered by Mount Arlington in Roxbury Township and by the Lower Berkshire Valley CDP. Lake Shawnee is in the northeast part of the CDP.
New Jersey Route 15 passes through the eastern side of the Lake Hopatcong CDP, leading south 4miles to Interstate 80 in Wharton and north 6miles to Sparta.
The community was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census.
As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 10,232.[2]
People who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Lake Hopatcong include: