Seaville 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 ...

and

census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...

(CDP) located within Upper Township in

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, in the

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. A post office was established in 1849, with Remington Corson as the first postmaster. Seaville is home to the only yellow fire trucks in Cape May County, a tradition started in 1985 when the Seaville Fire Rescue Company was purchasing a new vehicle and thought that federal regulations would require the color. Since being formed in 1964 and purchasing its first fire truck a year later, the Seaville company has served the area, responding to over 200 calls a year from its fire station which is located on Route 50 across from Dino's Seaville Diner.

Education

As with other parts of Upper Township, the area is zoned to Upper Township School District (for grades K-8) and

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(for high school). The latter operates

Ocean City High School Ocean City High School (OCHS) is a four-year comprehensive high school, comprehensive state school, public Secondary education in the United States, high school located in Ocean City, New Jersey, Ocean City, in Cape May County, New Jersey, Cap ...

. Countywide schools include

Cape May County Technical High School Cape May County Technical High School, located in Middle Township, which provides vocational and technical education to students in ninth through twelfth grades from Cape May County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, operating as part of the Cap ...

and

Cape May County Special Services School District The Cape May County Special Services School District (CMCSSSD) is a special education public school district headquartered in Middle Township, in Cape May County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The district's schools offer educational and the ...

Notable people

* Joshua Swain Jr., buried in the Calvary Baptist Church Cemetery in SeavilleStevens 1897, p. 283 * Walter S. Leaming, born in SeavilleStevens 1897, p. 389

References

Upper Township, New Jersey Census-designated places in Cape May County, New Jersey Census-designated places in New Jersey Unincorporated communities in Cape May County, New Jersey Unincorporated communities in New Jersey {{CapeMayCountyNJ-geo-stub