Basking Ridge

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Basking Ridge

Total population

7,917

Median home value

$851,200

74.3%

Bachelor's+

Median income

$188,295

Basking Ridge$188k

National$74k

Elevation111 m

Land area17.6 km²

Coordinates40.71°, -74.56°

Demographic figures from US Census Bureau · ACS 5-year estimates. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

City facts

Facts from Wikidata (CC0).

Overview

Basking Ridge is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) located within Bernards Township in the Somerset Hills region of Somerset County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

History & geography

Excerpted from the corresponding Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA).

Demographics & economy

Source: US Census Bureau — American Community Survey, 5-year estimates.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

J

James Linn

American politician (1749-1821)

William L. Dayton

American politician (1807–1864)

Tobin Heath

American soccer player

C

Carl Zander

American football player

Samuel Lewis Southard

American senator, Secretary of the Navy, and Governor of New Jersey (1787–1842)

G

George B. Cooper

American politician (1808-1866)

George M. Beebe

American politician (1836–1927)

I

Isaac Southard

American politician (1783-1850)

R

Reuben Whallon

American politician

F

Fred Vogel

American film director

Arthur Cleveland Coxe

American bishop

B

Ben Demott

American baseball player

B

Bill Kirchiro

American football player

Charles E. Apgar

American amateur radio operator

C

Charlie Papazian

American nuclear engineer, brewer and author

Chris Kratt

American educational nature show host

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in New Jersey

• Lyons
  1.8 mi away · pop. 5,187
• Bernardsville
  2.5 mi away
• Far Hills
  3.5 mi away
• Stirling
  4 mi away
• Mendham
  4.7 mi away
• The Hills
  4.9 mi away
• Peapack and Gladstone
  5.1 mi away
• Gillette
  5.3 mi away
• Pluckemin
  5.8 mi away
• Brookside
  6.1 mi away
• Martinsville
  7.2 mi away
• Green Knoll
  7.6 mi away · pop. 6,789

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Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Basking Ridge

Basking Ridge, New Jersey, Environmental Education Center

General Electric Company. Space Division · 1977

Family history and ancestry

Stanley E. Harris · 2001

Remember... Celebrate... Believe

Mary Corbet · 2017

Memoirs of the Rev. Robert Finley, D. D

Isaac V. Brown · 1819

Memoirs of the Rev. Robert Finley, D. D., late pastor of the Presbyterian congregation at Basking Ridge, New-Jersey, and President of Franklin College, located at Athens, in the state of Georgia

Isaac V. Brown · 1819

To the memory of Joseph Gaston, M.D

Joseph Gaston · 1910

Committee meeting of Assembly Environment and Energy Committee

New Jersey. Legislature. General Assembly. Environment and Energy Committee. · 1995

Around and about Basking Ridge, Liberty Corner, and Lyons

June O. Kennedy · 1995

Search results from Open Library.

Recently spotted species

Coppery Leafhopper

Jikradia olitoria

Seen 2026-09-25

Red-headed Bush Cricket

Phyllopalpus pulchellus

Seen 2026-09-25

Creeping Woodsorrel

Oxalis corniculata

Seen 2026-09-25

Bald-faced Hornet

Dolichovespula maculata

Seen 2026-09-25

pinesap

Monotropa hypopitys

Seen 2026-09-25

Question Mark

Polygonia interrogationis

Seen 2026-09-25

Northern Cardinal

Cardinalis cardinalis

Seen 2026-09-25

Blue Jay

Cyanocitta cristata

Seen 2026-09-25

Chickweed Geometer Moth

Haematopis grataria

Seen 2026-09-25

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).