Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Seaside Park, NJ

Seaside Park is a borough on the Barnegat Peninsula, the barrier island that separates Barnegat Bay from the Atlantic Ocean in Ocean County.

The borough was incorporated on March 3, 1898, as "Sea Side Park," from portions of Berkeley Township, under a bill signed by acting Governor Foster M. Voorhees.

The Berkeley Tract to the north of the borough was annexed around May 12, 1900.

In 1914, a newly appointed municipal clerk wrote the borough's name as "Seaside Park" in the council minutes, and the one-word spelling has been used ever since.

The 2020 census counted 1,436 people in 938 households and 577 families, but 2,586 housing units, far more units than households because so many of the borough's homes are seasonal.

Seaside Park's land area is just 0.655 square miles, while its beach and boardwalk run for about two miles.

On June 9, 1955, the Freeman's Fire, started by a malfunctioning neon sign and driven by winds of about 50 miles per hour, destroyed 85 buildings in the borough and caused an estimated $4 million in damage.

The Ash Wednesday Storm of March 1962 destroyed a large section of Seaside Park's boardwalk.

Seaside Park is a quieter, mostly residential shore town just south of the livelier Seaside Heights, with South Seaside Park and Island Beach State Park lying to its south.

The completion of the Toms River Bridge on October 23, 1914, together with the DuPont Avenue carousel and boardwalk, likely drove the borough's 219% population growth between the 1910 and 1920 censuses.