Wildwood Crest
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borough in New Jersey, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- New Jersey
- County
- Cape May
- Incorporated
- April 6, 1910
- Type
- Walsh Act
- Body
- Board of Commissioners
- Mayor
- Donald Cabrera (term ends December 31, 2025)
- Municipal clerk
- Patricia A. Feketics
- Total
- 1.48 sq mi (3.84 km )
- Land
- 1.30 sq mi (3.36 km )
- Water
- 0.19 sq mi (0.48 km ) 12.50%
- Rank
- 452nd of 565 in state, 13th of 16 in county
- Elevation
- 3 ft (0.91 m)
- Estimate 2023
- 3,063
- Density
- 2,388.6/sq mi (922.2/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−05:00 ( Eastern (EST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC−04:00 ( Eastern (EDT) )
- Zip code
- 08260
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- borough of New Jersey
- Official name
- Wildwood Crest
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Cape May County
- Population
- 3101
- Area
- 3.390208
- Elevation
- 3
- Time zone
- Eastern Time Zone
- Shares border with
- Wildwood
- Official website
- wildwoodcrest.org
- Image
- Wildwood Crest arch.JPG
- Households
- 1735
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- Commons category
- Wildwood Crest, New Jersey
- inception
- 1910-04-06
- water as percent of area
- 13.3788
- per capita income
- 49172
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Encyclopedic overview
Wildwood Crest is a borough in Cape May County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The borough, and all of Cape May County, is part of the Ocean City metropolitan statistical area, and is part of the Philadelphia-Wilmington-Camden, PA-NJ-DE-MD combined statistical area, also known as the Delaware Valley or Philadelphia metropolitan area. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 3,101, a decrease of 169 (−5.2%) from the 2010 census count of 3,270, which in turn reflected a decline of 710 (−17.8%) from the 3,980 counted in the 2000 census.
Wildwood Crest was incorporated as a borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 6, 1910, from portions of Lower Township. The area of the borough was first developed by Philip Baker in the 1910s as a southern extension to the resort of Wildwood. The borough's name comes from Wildwood, which in turn was named for the area's wild flowers.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wildwood Crest” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.