Prospertown 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 ...

located within the

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townships of

Jackson Jackson may refer to: Places Australia * Jackson, Queensland, a town in the Maranoa Region * Jackson North, Queensland, a locality in the Maranoa Region * Jackson South, Queensland, a locality in the Maranoa Region * Jackson oil field in Durham, ...

and Plumsted in

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 ...

and Upper Freehold in

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. The community is home to

Prospertown Lake Prospertown Lake is a man-made lake and wildlife management area, located on Monmouth Road ( CR 537) in the Prospertown section of Jackson, New Jersey, adjacent to Six Flags Great Adventure. In September 2011, a 27-year-old metal gate water cont ...

and is adjacent to

Six Flags Great Adventure Six Flags Great Adventure is an amusement park located approximately southeast of Trenton, New Jersey, Trenton in Jackson Township, New Jersey. Owned and operated by Six Flags, the park complex is situated between New York City and Philadelph ...

, both located on Monmouth Road ( CR 537). The center of the community is located at the intersection of CR 537, Hawkin Road ( CR 640 on the Ocean County side of CR 537), and Emleys Hill Road (on the Monmouth County side). Most of the area consists of pine forests (as the area is located in the northern reaches of the

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 ...

) but there are some homes along the roads in the area. Prospertown was once a settlement, consisting of a hotel, several homes, and a

gristmill A gristmill (also: grist mill, corn mill, flour mill, feed mill or feedmill) grinds cereal grain into flour and Wheat middlings, middlings. The term can refer to either the grinding mechanism or the building that holds it. Grist is grain that h ...

References

Jackson Township, New Jersey Plumsted Township, New Jersey Upper Freehold Township, New Jersey Populated places in the Pine Barrens (New Jersey) Unincorporated communities in Monmouth County, New Jersey Unincorporated communities in Ocean County, New Jersey Unincorporated communities in New Jersey {{OceanCountyNJ-geo-stub