unincorporated community
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Hunterdon County
Hunterdon County is a county located in the western section of the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the county's population was 128,947, making it the state's 18th-most populous county,New Jersey
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, United States.Locality Search State of New Jersey. Accessed January 31, 2015. As its name implies, the community is located at the top of a small hill that is sandwiched between the
Hunterdon Plateau
Hunterdon Plateau is a plateau in western Hunterdon County, New Jersey. It borders the higher Musconetcong Mountain to the northwest, the Delaware River to the west, Amwell Valley to the south and the lower lying areas of the Newark Basin to the ...
and the
Sourland Mountain
Sourland Mountain is a long ridge in central New Jersey, extending from the Delaware River at Lambertville to the western end of Hillsborough Township near the community of Neshanic, through Montgomery Township and into Hopewell Township in ...
s. Sandy Ridge Road is the main road east and west through the community while County Route 605 is a minor arterial road that passes north and south through the area. CR 605 enters from the south on Sandy Ridge-Mt. Airy Road, jogs to the west on Sandy Ridge Road for , and exits to the north on Cemetery Road towards CR 523.NJDOT County Route 605 Straight Line Diagram (PDF) (
NJDOT
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Straight line diagram
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) The area consists of mainly residences with some farmland and forestland. The Sandy Ridge Church (with adjacent
cemetery
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) is a
Baptist
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church founded in 1818 with its current building constructed in 1866 and is located in the center of Sandy Ridge.