Toms River
| Toms River Goose Neck Creek, Goose Creek, Toms Creek | |
|---|---|
Toms River Project, US Army Corps of Engineers, 1979 | |
| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| State | New Jersey |
| Municipality | Toms River, New Jersey |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • location | Millstone Township, New Jersey |
| • coordinates | 40°11′51″N 74°25′11″W / 40.19746°N 74.41973°W |
| • elevation | 226 feet (69 m) |
| Mouth | |
• location | Toms River, New Jersey |
• coordinates | 39°56′20″N 74°06′43″W / 39.93880°N 74.11201°W |
| Width | |
| • maximum | 1.08 miles (1.74 km) at mouth |
| Discharge | |
| • location | 39°59′13″N 74°13′23″W / 39.987°N 74.223°W |
| • average | 191 cu ft/s (5.4 m3/s) |
| • minimum | 37 cu ft/s (1.0 m3/s) |
| • maximum | 3,940 cu ft/s (112 m3/s) |
| Basin features | |
| Cities | Millstone Township, Freehold Township, Jackson Township, Manchester Township, Berkeley Township, Toms River, South Toms River, Beachwood, Pine Beach, Island Heights, Ocean Gate |
| Waterbodies | Lake Hohenstein, Barnegat Bay |
The Toms River is a 41.7-mile-long (67.1 km) freshwater river and estuary in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States. The river rises in the Pine Barrens of northern Ocean County, then flows southeast and east, where it is fed by several tributaries, and flows in a meandering course through wetlands. The river empties into Barnegat Bay—an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean—and the Intracoastal Waterway at Mile 14.6.