Atlantic County NJGenWeb
County Seat: Mays Landing
Acting State Coordinator - MaryAlice Schwanke
This site is available for adoption, if you are interested in being the coordinator, please contact me.
Welcome to the Atlantic County, NJGenWeb site, which is part of the NJGenWeb Project. The NJGenWeb Project is an affiliate of The USGenWeb Project which endeavors to provide free genealogy websites for genealogical research in the United States.
County Formation
All of what is known today as Atlantic County was once called Egg Harbor Township, the eastern half of the original Gloucester County. Named as an official district as early as 1693, it was bounded on the north by the Little Egg Harbor River (now known as the Mullica River), and on the south by the Great Egg Harbor River and its southern branch, the Tuckahoe River. Its eastern boundary was the Atlantic Ocean, but the western boundary in the South Jersey interior was not fixed until 1761. The county was formally created from portions of Gloucester County as of February 7, 1837, and consisted of the townships of Egg Harbor, Galloway, Hamilton and Weymouth.
Adjacent counties
- Burlington County, New Jersey – north
- Camden County, New Jersey – northwest
- Cape May County, New Jersey – south
- Cumberland County, New Jersey – southwest
- Gloucester County, New Jersey – northwest
- Ocean County, New Jersey – northeast
What's New ?
July 25, 2022: New County Coordinator is needed! Contact the Acting State Coordinator for more information.