Bullock, New Jersey
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Bullock is an
unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
that straddles Woodland Township, Burlington County and Manchester Township,
Ocean County Ocean County is a county located in the U.S. state of New Jersey and the southernmost county in the New York metropolitan area. The county borders the Atlantic Ocean on the east and in terms of total area is the state's largest county. Its co ...
in the middle of the
New Jersey New Jersey is a U.S. state, state located in both the Mid-Atlantic States, Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States, Northeastern regions of the United States. Located at the geographic hub of the urban area, heavily urbanized Northeas ...
Pine Barrens Pine barrens, pine plains, sand plains, or pineland areas occur throughout the U.S. from Florida to Maine (see Atlantic coastal pine barrens) as well as the Midwest, West, and Canada and parts of Eurasia. Perhaps the most well known pine-barre ...
. Much of the area surrounding Bullock is a part of the
Brendan T. Byrne State Forest The Brendan T. Byrne State Forest (formerly the Lebanon State Forest) is a state forest in the New Jersey New Jersey Pine Barrens, Pine Barrens. Its protected acreage is split between Burlington County, New Jersey, Burlington and Ocean County, ...
though there are some clearings for small houses along Savoy Boulevard in Woodland Township and Pasadena Road in Manchester Township. The settlement is located where these two roads, the
New Jersey Southern Railroad New Jersey Southern RR and connections The New Jersey Southern Railroad was a railroad that started in 1854. It would continue under this name until the 1870s as a separate company and the lines that it had constructed or run continued to be run ...
, and the
Keith line The Quintipartite Deed was a legal document that split the Province of New Jersey, dividing it into the Province of West Jersey and the Province of East Jersey from 1674 until 1702. On July 1, 1676, William Penn, Gawen Lawrie (who served fr ...
(separating the two counties) converge.


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Manchester Township, New Jersey Woodland Township, New Jersey Populated places in the Pine Barrens (New Jersey) Unincorporated communities in Burlington County, New Jersey Unincorporated communities in Ocean County, New Jersey Unincorporated communities in New Jersey {{OceanCountyNJ-geo-stub