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Local Town Names

With 566 municipalities, its hard enough to keep names straight, but there are also local names (or portions of municipalities). Below is a list of the local town names, their official municipality name, and their county. Click a letter below to find your local town name.

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Local Name Legal Name County
Packanack Lake Wayne Township Passaic
Pages Corners Robbinsville Township Mercer
Paisley Tabernacle Township Burlington
Palatine Pittsgrove Township Salem
Palermo Upper Township Cape May
Palisade Fort Lee Borough Bergen
Palisades Interstate Park Alpine Borough Bergen
Palisades Park Palisades Park Borough Bergen
Pallettown Frankford Township Sussex
Palmyra Alexandria Township Hunterdon
Palmyra Palmyra Borough Burlington
Pancoast Buena Vista Township Atlantic
Pancoasts Mill Buena Vista Township Atlantic
Panther Pond Byram Township Sussex
Papakating Wantage Township Sussex
Paradise West Deptford Township Gloucester
Paradise Corner Roosevelt Borough Monmouth
Paramus Paramus Borough Bergen
Park Ridge Park Ridge Borough Bergen
Parker Washington Township Morris
Parker Cove Eagleswood Township Ocean
Parkertown Highlands Borough Monmouth
Parkertown Little Egg Harbor Township Ocean
Parkertown Oldmans Township Salem
Parkside Camden City Camden
Parkview Newark City Essex
Parkville West Deptford Township Gloucester
Parkway Village Ewing Township Mercer
Parlin Sayreville Borough Middlesex
Parry Cinnaminson Township Burlington
Parsippany Parsippany-Troy Hills Township Morris
Parsippany-Troy Hills Twp. Parsippany-Troy Hills Township Morris
Parvin Lake Pittsgrove Township Salem
Parvin State Park Pittsgrove Township Salem
Parvins Branch Vineland City Cumberland
Pasadena Manchester Township Ocean
Passaic Passaic City Passaic
Passaic Junction Elmwood Park Borough Bergen
Passaic Township Passaic Township Morris
Paterson Paterson City Passaic
Patricks Corner  East Brunswick Township Middlesex
Patricks Corner North Brunswick Township Middlesex
Pattenburg Union Township Hunterdon
Paulding Pilesgrove Township Salem
Paulina Blairstown Township Warren
Paulins Kill Lake Hampton Township Sussex
Paulins Kill Lake Stillwater Township Sussex
Paulsboro Paulsboro Borough Gloucester
Pavonia Camden City Camden
Peahala Park Long Beach Township Ocean
Peapack Peapack & Gladstone Borough Somerset
Peapack and Gladstone Peapack & Gladstone Borough Somerset
Peck Beach Ocean City Cape May
Pecks Corner Quinton Township Salem
Pedricktown Oldmans Township Salem
Peermont Avalon Borough Cape May
Pelican Island Berkeley Township Ocean
Pelican Island Toms River Township Ocean
Pellettown Frankford Township Sussex
Pemberton Pemberton Borough Burlington
Pemberton Township Pemberton Borough Burlington
Pen Byrn Winslow Township Camden
Penn Brick Beach Pennsville Township Salem
Penn Place Washington Township Burlington
Penn State Forest Washington Township Burlington
Pennington Pennington Borough Mercer
Penns Grove Penns Grove Borough Salem
Penns Neck West Windsor Township Mercer
Pennsauken Pennsauken Township Camden
Pennsville Pennsville Township Salem
Pennsville Township Pennsville Township Salem
Penny Pot Folsom Borough Atlantic
Penton Alloway Township Salem
Penwell Mansfield Township Warren
Pequannock Pequannock Township Morris
Pequannock Township Pequannock Township Morris
Pequest Oxford Township Warren
Perkins Edgewater Park Township Burlington
Perkintown Oldmans Township Salem
Perrineville Millstone Township Monmouth
Perryville Union Township Hunterdon
Perth Amboy Perth Amboy City Middlesex
Pestletown Waterford Township Camden
Peters Valley Sandyston Township Sussex
Petersburg Jefferson Township Morris
Petersburg Mount Laurel Township Burlington
Petersburg Upper Township Cape May
Petersburgh Independence Township Warren
Pettets Pond West Milford Township Passaic
Petty Island Pennsauken Township Camden
Phalanx Colts Neck Township Monmouth
Phillip Mills Middletown Township Monmouth
Phillipsburg Phillipsburg Town Warren
Phoenix Edison Township Middlesex
Phoenix Woodbridge Township Middlesex
Picatinny Rockaway Township Morris
Picton Clark Township Union
Pierces Middle Township Cape May
Pierces Corner West Deptford Township Gloucester
Pierces Point Middle Township Cape May
Pilesgrove Township Pilesgrove Township Salem
Pine Beach Pine Beach Borough Ocean
Pine Brook Montville Township Morris
Pine Brook Shrewsbury Township Monmouth
Pine Brook Bridge West Caldwell Township Essex
Pine Crest Tabernacle Township Burlington
Pine Crest Lake West Milford Township Passaic
Pine Grove Evesham Township Burlington
Pine Grove Mount Laurel Township Burlington
Pine Hill Millstone Township Monmouth
Pine Hill Pine Hill Borough Camden
Pine Hollow Franklin Township Gloucester
Pine Lake Park Estates Manchester Township Ocean
Pine Lane Springfield Township Burlington
Pine Swamp Sparta Township Sussex
Pine Valley Pine Valley Borough Camden
Pine View Toms River Township Ocean
Pinecliff Lake West Milford Township Passaic
Pinehurst Estates Plumsted Township Ocean
Pines Lake Wayne Township Passaic
Pinewald Berkeley Township Ocean
Pinkneyville Andover Township Sussex
Pipers Corners Medford Township Burlington
Piscataway Township Piscataway Township Middlesex
Pitman Pitman Borough Gloucester
Pittsgrove Upper Pittsgrove Township Salem
Pittsgrove Township Pittsgrove Township Salem
Pittstown Franklin Township Hunterdon
Plainfield Plainfield City Union
Plains Frankford Township Sussex
Plainsboro Plainsboro Township Middlesex
Plainsboro Township Plainsboro Township Middlesex
Plainville Franklin Township Gloucester
Plainville Montgomery Township Somerset
Plauderville Garfield City Bergen
Playground Beach Brick Township Ocean
Pleasant Grove Jackson Township Ocean
Pleasant Grove Upper Deerfield Township Cumberland
Pleasant Grove Washington Township Morris
Pleasant Hill Chester Township Morris
Pleasant Mills Mullica Township Atlantic
Pleasant Mills Washington Township Burlington
Pleasant Plains Toms River Township Ocean
Pleasant Plains Passaic Township Morris
Pleasant Run Readington Township Hunterdon
Pleasant Valley Hopewell Township Mercer
Pleasant Valley Marlboro Township Monmouth
Pleasant Valley Mendham Township Morris
Pleasant Valley Washington Township Warren
Pleasantdale West Orange Township Essex
Pleasantview Hillsborough Township Somerset
Pleasantville Harding Township Morris
Pleasantville Pleasantville City Atlantic
Pleasantville Vineland City Cumberland
Pleasantville Terrace Egg Harbor Township Atlantic
Pleasure Bay Long Branch City Monmouth
Pluckemin Bedminster Township Somerset
Plumbsock Wantage Township Sussex
Plumsted Township Plumsted Township Ocean
Pohatcong Township Pohatcong Township Warren
Point, The Lebanon Township Hunterdon
Point Airy Pilesgrove Township Salem
Point Comfort Keansburg Borough Monmouth
Point Pleasant Gloucester Township Camden
Point Pleasant Point Pleasant Borough Ocean
Point Pleasant Beach Point Pleasant Beach Borough Ocean
Point View Wayne Township Passaic
Pointers Mannington Township Salem
Pointville New Hanover Township Burlington
Pole Tavern Upper Pittsgrove Township Salem
Polhemustown Upper Freehold Township Monmouth
Polktown Union Township Hunterdon
Polkville Knowlton Township Warren
Pomerania Galloway Township Atlantic
Pomona Galloway Township Atlantic
Pompton Pompton Lakes Borough Passaic
Pompton Falls Wayne Township Passaic
Pompton Junction Bloomingdale Borough Passaic
Pompton Lakes Pompton Lakes Borough Passaic
Pompton Plains Pequannock Township Morris
Pond Run Hamilton Township Mercer
Poplar Ocean Township Monmouth
Porches Mill Woolwich Township Gloucester
Porchtown Franklin Township Gloucester
Pork Island Egg Harbor Township Atlantic
Port Colden Washington Township Warren
Port Elizabeth Maurice River Township Cumberland
Port Mercer West Windsor Township Mercer
Port Monmouth Middletown Township Monmouth
Port Morris Roxbury Township Morris
Port Morris Landing Roxbury Township Morris
Port Murray Mansfield Township Warren
Port Newark Newark City Essex
Port Norris Commercial Township Cumberland
Port Reading Woodbridge Township Middlesex
Port Republic Port Republic City Atlantic
Port Warren Greenwich Township Warren
Portaupeck Oceanport Borough Monmouth
Portertown Mannington Township Salem
Posts Mills Upper Saddle River Borough Bergen
Postville West Milford Township Passaic
Potters Edison Township Middlesex
Potterstown Readington Township Hunterdon
Pottersville Bedminster Township Somerset
Pottersville Tewksbury Township Hunterdon
Pottersville Washington Township Morris
Poverty Beach Cape May City Cape May
Powder Mill Parsippany-Troy Hills Township Morris
Powell Springfield Township Burlington
Powerville Boonton Township Morris
Prallsville Delaware Township Hunterdon
Preakness Wayne Township Passaic
Preakness Valley Park Wayne Township Passaic
Prices Switch Vernon Township Sussex
Princessville Lawrence Township Mercer
Princeton Princeton Borough Mercer
Princeton Junction West Windsor Township Mercer
Princeton Township Princeton Township Mercer
Prospect Logan Township Gloucester
Prospect Heights Ewing Township Mercer
Prospect Park Prospect Park Borough Passaic
Prospect Plains Monroe Township Middlesex
Prospect Point Jefferson Township Morris
Prospertown Upper Freehold Township Monmouth
Prossers Mill Washington Township Gloucester
Pulis Mills Mahwah Township Bergen
Pullentown Upper Freehold Township Monmouth
Pumptown Edison Township Middlesex
Putnam Manor Union Township Union