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East Keansburg, New Jersey
Unincorporated community
East Keansburg Location in Monmouth County. Inset: Location of county within the state of New Jersey Show map of Monmouth County, New Jersey East Keansburg East Keansburg (New Jersey) Show map of New Jersey East Keansburg East Keansburg (the United States) Show map of the United States
Coordinates: 40°26′20″N 74°07′01″W / 40.43889°N 74.11694°W / 40.43889; -74.11694
Country	United States
State	New Jersey
County	Monmouth
Township	Middletown
Elevation ^[1]	7 ft (2 m)
GNIS feature ID	882449^[1]

East Keansburg is an unincorporated community located within Middletown Township in Monmouth County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.^[2] As the name suggests, the area is east of Keansburg with Route 36 bordering the south, Port Monmouth to the east across Pews Creek, and the Raritan Bay to the north. The community is included in the North Middletown portion of the township.

East Keansburg is surrounded by an earthen levee (known as "the dike") constructed as protection against flooding, during large storms such as Hurricane Sandy.^[3]

The community includes the Tonya Keller Community Center, McMahon Park, and Ideal Beach along the bay. East Keansburg Fire Company #1 and Middletown Township First Aid & Rescue Squad are both located in East Keansburg. Portions of the Keansburg High School grounds are in Middletown/East Keansburg.

References

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^ ^a ^b "East Keansburg". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
^ Locality Search, State of New Jersey. Accessed February 23, 2015.
^ Morang, Andrew. "Hurricane Barriers in New England and New Jersey: History and Status after Five Decades", Journal of Coastal Research, Volume 32, Issue 1. Accessed June 8, 2016. "The U.S. Army Engineer District, New York (NAN), project is in Laurence Harbor (previously named Madison), Keansburg, and North Middletown (previously named East Keansburg) Townships, New Jersey, facing Raritan and Sandy Hook Bays."

v t e Middletown, New Jersey
Neighborhoods	Belford Chapel Hill East Keansburg Fairview Leonardo Lincroft Locust Middletown Village Navesink New Monmouth North Middletown Port Monmouth River Plaza
Schools	Middletown Township Public School District Middletown High School North Middletown High School South Monmouth County Vocational School District High Technology High School Marine Academy of Science and Technology Brookdale Community College Christian Brothers Academy Mater Dei High School Oak Hill Academy
Parks and recreation	Gateway National Recreation Area Sandy Hook Gunnison Beach Fort Hancock Hartshorne Woods Park Henry Hudson Trail Poricy Park Tatum Park Thompson Park
NRHP listings	All Saint's Memorial Church Brookdale Farm Historic District Dempsey Pump House Fort Hancock and the Sandy Hook Proving Ground Historic District Fort Hancock U.S. Life Saving Station Grover House MacLeod–Rice House Middletown Village Historic District Christ Church Navesink Historic District Navesink Twin Lights Navesink Military Reservation Sandy Hook Light Seabrook–Wilson House Union Schoolhouse Water Witch Club Historic District Water Witch Club Casino
Public transportation	Middletown station List of NJ Transit bus routes (800–880) NY Waterway Seastreak
Roads and highways	Garden State Parkway Route 35 Route 36 Newman Springs Road County Routes
Other points of interest	Evil Clown of Middletown Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Naval Weapons Station Earle Navesink River Raritan Bayshore Quick Stop Convenience Store (where Clerks was filmed)
This list is incomplete.

v t e Municipalities and communities of Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States
County seat: Freehold Borough
Cities	Asbury Park Long Branch	Map of New Jersey highlighting Monmouth County
Boroughs	Allenhurst Allentown Atlantic Highlands Avon-by-the-Sea Belmar Bradley Beach Brielle Deal Eatontown Englishtown Fair Haven Farmingdale Freehold Borough Highlands Interlaken Keansburg Keyport Lake Como Little Silver Manasquan Matawan Monmouth Beach Neptune City Oceanport Red Bank Roosevelt Rumson Sea Bright Sea Girt Shrewsbury Spring Lake Spring Lake Heights Tinton Falls Union Beach West Long Branch
Townships	Aberdeen Colts Neck Freehold Hazlet Holmdel Howell Manalapan Marlboro Middletown Millstone Neptune Ocean Shrewsbury Upper Freehold Wall
Village	Loch Arbour
CDPs	Allenwood Belford Cliffwood Beach Cream Ridge East Freehold Fairview Leonardo Lincroft Morganville Navesink North Middletown Oakhurst Ocean Grove Port Monmouth Ramtown Robertsville Shark River Hills Strathmore Wanamassa West Belmar West Freehold Yorketown
Other unincorporated communities	Adelphia Allaire Ardena Arneytown Bairdsville Bergerville Bradevelt Bucks Mill Burlington Heights Carrs Tavern Chapel Hill Charleston Springs Clarksburg Cliffwood Cooleys Corner Coxs Corner East Keansburg Elberon Ely Emleys Hill Fair Play Fairfield Freewood Acres Freneau Galilee Georgia Glendola Holmeson Hornerstown Imlaystown Jerseyville Locust Lower Squankum Maxim Middletown Village Millhurst Montrose Navesink Beach Nelsonville New Bedford New Canton New Monmouth Normandie North Spring Lake Oceanic Perrineville Phalanx Pleasant Valley Port-au-peck Prospertown River Plaza Red Valley Scobeyville Sharon Smithburg Squankum Stone Tavern Tennent Walnford Wayside West Allenhurst West End West Farms West Keansburg Wickatunk
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