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 View north along the land border of New Jersey and Delaware on Finns Point | |
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| Coordinates: 39°36′21″N 75°33′38″W / 39.60583°N 75.56056°W |
Finns Point is a small promontory in Pennsville Township, Salem County, New Jersey, and New Castle County, Delaware, located at the southwest corner of the cape of Penns Neck, on the east bank of the Delaware River near its mouth on Delaware Bay.[1] Due to the wording of the original charter defining the boundaries of New Jersey and Delaware, part of the promontory is actually enclosed within the state of Delaware's border, due to tidal flow and the manner in which the borders between New Jersey and Delaware were first laid out. Therefore, this portion of Finns Point, also called The Baja,[2] is an exclave of Delaware, cut off from the rest of the state by Delaware Bay.[3] The area, the westernmost point in New Jersey, is about 10 miles (16 km) south of the city of Wilmington, and directly across the Delaware River from the New Castle area, and the Delaware River entrance to the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal. Pea Patch Island, part of the state of Delaware, sits in the channel of the river facing the promontory.
The area in Delaware was previously protected as Killcohook National Wildlife Refuge but is now a confined disposal facility used by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.[2]
- ^ "Finns Point". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- ^ a b "The Baja: Why a strange piece of land near Pennsville belongs to Delaware instead of New Jersey". The News Journal. Retrieved 2023-05-19.
- ^ Schoonejongen, John. "How Delaware got on Jersey’s side of the river", Asbury Park Press, September 10, 2010. Accessed September 21, 2015. "Killcohook, in Pennsville Township, is another. Not only is it a 'confined disposal facility' for dredging materials, Killcohook is also the name of a nearby wildlife refuge. It borders another wildlife refuge, Supawna, as well as the Finns Point National Cemetery, the Finns Point Lighthouse and Fort Mott State Park."