Vauxhall, New Jersey
Vauxhall, New Jersey | |
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Unincorporated community | |
  Vauxhall, New Jersey Vauxhall's location in Union County (Inset: Union County in New Jersey) | |
| Coordinates: 40°43′06″N 74°17′03″W / 40.71833°N 74.28417°WCoordinates: 40°43′06″N 74°17′03″W / 40.71833°N 74.28417°W | |
| Country |  United States |
| State |  New Jersey |
| County | Union |
| Township | Union |
| Elevation | 190 ft (58 m) |
| ZIP code | 07088[1] |
| GNIS feature ID | 0881436[2] |
Vauxhall is an unincorporated community located within Union Township in Union County, New Jersey, United States.[3] Vauxhall borders Millburn, Maplewood and Springfield. The area is served as United States Postal Service ZIP Code 07088.[4]
As of the 2010 United States Census, the population for ZIP Code Tabulation Area 07088 was 3,606.[5]
Vauxhall is home to The Home Depot Superstore, its largest store in the world.[6]
Notable people[]
People who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Vauxhall include:
- Amalya Lyle Kearse (born 1937), a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.[7]
- Myra Smith Kearse (1899–1982), physician and community leader.[8]
- Elliott Maddox (born 1947), former professional baseball player who played for both the New York Mets and New York Yankees.[9]
- Lawrence E. Roberts (1922–2004), pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen and a colonel in the United States Air Force.[10]
References[]
- ^ Look Up a ZIP Code for Vauxhall, NJ, United States Postal Service. Accessed January 12, 2013.
- ^ "Vauxhall". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2012-09-22.
- ^ Locality Search, State of New Jersey. Accessed June 9, 2016. Listed as Vaux Hall.
- ^ Look Up a ZIP Code for Vauxhall, NJ, United States Postal Service. Accessed April 23, 2012.
- ^ DP-1 Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010; 2010 Demographic Profile Data for ZCTA 07088 Archived 2020-02-12 at archive.today, United States Census Bureau. Accessed April 23, 2012.
- ^ https://www.ocregister.com/2012/04/05/the-home-depot-opens-its-first-superstore-in-the-west/
- ^ Goldstein, Tom. "Amalya Lyle Kearse; Woman in the News", The New York Times, June 25, 1979. Accessed February 23, 2012. "Amalya Lyle Kearse was born June 11, 1937, in Vauxhall, N.J. where her late father was postmaster and her mother first practiced medicine and then became an antipoverty official."
- ^ The Women's Project of New Jersey. "Myra Smith Kearse" in Past and Promise: Lives of New Jersey Women, p. 336. Syracuse University Press, 1997. ISBN 9780815604181. Accessed June 13, 2020. "Kearse was active until February 14, 1982, when she died of cardiac arrest at her hem in Vauxhall at age 82."
- ^ Kaplan, Ron. "Today I am a baseball bat." Archived 2017-11-23 at the Wayback Machine, New Jersey Jewish News, 2004. Accessed November 12, 2013. "'Once I started playing Little League, most of my friends were either Jewish or black,' said Maddox, who grew up in Vauxhall, a predominantly African-American section of Union."
- ^ Colonel (Retired) Lawrence E. Roberts, Keesler Air Force Base. Accessed February 10, 2021. "Lawrence E. Roberts was born December 9, 1922 in Vauxhall, New Jersey."
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