Bayville, New Jersey Explained

Bayville is an unincorporated community located within Berkeley Township in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States.^[4] The area is served as United States Postal Service ZIP Code 08721. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population for ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) 08721 was 20,512.^[1] Central Regional High School is the local high school for the area.

Bayville is home to the majority of Double Trouble State Park, where Ocean Spray manages a cranberry bog.^[5] The area is said to be haunted by the mythical Jersey Devil.^[6]

Bayville received of snow in the January 2022 North American blizzard, the most of any place in the state.^[7]

WOBM-FM radio started broadcasting from Bayville in March 1968. The station relocated to studios in Toms River in 2013.^[8]

Notable people

People who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Bayville include:

• Tom DeBlass (born 1982), Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioner, submission grappler and mixed martial artist^[9]
• Jazmyn Foberg (born 2000), artistic gymnast who was the 2014 US Junior National All-Around and Uneven Bars Champion.^[10]
• Al Leiter (born 1965), baseball pitcher.^[11]
• Phil Longo (born 1968), American football coach who is offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach for the North Carolina Tar Heels football team.^[12]
• Megan McCafferty (born 1973), author best known for her Jessica Darling series.^[13]

External links

• Bayville, NJ Community web site

Notes and References

1. http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_DP/DPDP1/8600000US08721 DP-1 - Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 from 2010 Demographic Profile Data for ZCTA5 08721
2. http://tools.usps.com/go/ZipLookupResultsAction!input.action?resultMode=0&city=bayville&state=NJ Look Up a ZIP Code for Bayville, NJ
3. http://www.state.nj.us/infobank/njzips.htm Zip Codes
4. http://www.state.nj.us/infobank/localnames.txt Locality Search
5. https://www.nj.gov/dep/parksandforests/parks/doubletroublestatepark.html Double Trouble State Park Overview
6. Roncace, Kelly. "13 times the Jersey Devil has been spotted in the Garden State", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, October 31, 2016, updated May 16, 2019. Accessed September 23, 2021.
7. https://bronx.news12.com/amp/blizzard-drops-21-inches-of-snow-on-bayville-most-in-new-jersey "Blizzard drops 21 inches of snow on Bayville; most in New Jersey"
8. Michaels, Shawn. "WOBM Is Moving – Join Us For A Look Back At Nearly 45 Years", WOBM-FM, January 20, 2013. Accessed March 21, 2023. "Townsquare Media has designed and constructed a new state of the art facility in Downtown Toms River (8 Robbins Street) and we are very excited to begin the new chapter for your 'Hometown' Station 92.7 WOBM. WOBM went on the air March 1, 1968 in these Bayville studios ....in the middle of a snowstorm!"
9. https://www.newspapers.com/article/standard-speaker-tom-deblass-of-bayville/146450007/ "Man With Local Ties Claims Jiu-Jitsu Title"
10. Wall, Karen. "All That Jazzy: Berkeley Gymnast Wins National Championship; Jazmyn Foberg, 14, earns all-around title at U.S. Junior National Championships", Berkeley Patch, August 23, 2014. Accessed October 12, 2015. "Berkeley gymnast Jazmyn Foberg is the new junior national gymnastics all-around champion."
11. http://web.yesnetwork.com/announcers/bio.jsp?id=aleiter Al Leiter
12. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/11436024/daily-record/ "Coach"
13. Ervolino, Bill. "Jessica's a step behind her author", The Record, September 9, 2007. "Like her heroine, McCafferty knows her way around the Garden State, having grown up in Bayville before moving to Brooklyn and Manhattan and then getting married and settling in -- ahem -- Princeton."