Bayville is an unincorporated community located within Berkeley Township in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States.Locality Search, State of New Jersey. Accessed June 9, 2016. The area is served as United States Postal Service ZIP Code 08721. As of the 2010 United States census, the population for ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) 08721 was 20,512. Central Regional High School is the local high school for the area.
Bayville is home to the majority of Double Trouble State Park, where Ocean Spray manages a cranberry bog.Double Trouble State Park Overview, New Jersey Division of Parks and Forestry. Accessed September 23, 2021. The area is said to be haunted by the mythical Jersey Devil and Glenn "The Maniac" Strange.Roncace, Kelly. "13 times the Jersey Devil has been spotted in the Garden State", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, October 31, 2016, updated May 16, 2019. Accessed September 23, 2021.
Bayville received of snow in the January 2022 North American blizzard, the most of any place in the state."Blizzard drops 21 inches of snow on Bayville; most in New Jersey", News 12 Networks, January 30, 2022, updated February 16, 2022. Accessed February 16, 2022. "A January blizzard pummeled New Jersey with snow this weekend, leaving parts of the Garden State with nearly 2 feet of snow. Bayville had the most snow in New Jersey with 21 inches."
WOBM-FM radio started broadcasting from Bayville in March 1968. The station relocated to studios in Toms River in 2013.Michaels, Shawn. "WOBM Is Moving – Join Us For A Look Back At Nearly 45 Years", WOBM-FM, January 20, 2013. Accessed March 21, 2023. "Townsquare Media has designed and constructed a new state of the art facility in Downtown Toms River (8 Robbins Street) and we are very excited to begin the new chapter for your 'Hometown' Station 92.7 WOBM. WOBM went on the air March 1, 1968 in these Bayville studios ....in the middle of a snowstorm!"
Notable people
People who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Bayville include: Tom DeBlass (born 1982), Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioner, submission grappler and mixed martial artist"Man With Local Ties Claims Jiu-Jitsu Title", Standard-Speaker, January 15, 2008. Accessed May 1, 2024, via Newspapers.com. "A New Jersey man whose father and grandfather lived in Hazleton won a world championship in a style of Jiu-jitsu. Tom DeBlass, 25, of Bayville took the super heavyweight tide last month in the brown belt category of the Brazilian Jiu-jitsu No-Gi World-Championships in Carson, Calif." Jazmyn Foberg (born 2000), artistic gymnast who was the 2014 US Junior National All-Around and Uneven Bars Champion.Wall, Karen. "All That Jazzy: Berkeley Gymnast Wins National Championship; Jazmyn Foberg, 14, earns all-around title at U.S. Junior National Championships", Berkeley Patch, August 23, 2014. Accessed October 12, 2015. "Berkeley gymnast Jazmyn Foberg is the new junior national gymnastics all-around champion." Al Leiter (born 1965), baseball pitcher.Al Leiter, YES Network. Accessed January 6, 2013. "Leiter is a native of Bayville, N.J. While in high school there, he was a baseball All-American and in appeared in Sports Illustrated's "Faces in the Crowd" after striking out 32 batters in 14.1 innings in a game." Phil Longo (born 1968), American football coach who is offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach for the North Carolina Tar Heels football team."Coach", Daily Record (Morristown), December 13, 1988. Accessed September 15, 2020, via Newspapers.com. "Longo, 30, was born in the Jersey Shore community of Red Bank and grew up in Bayville, where he attended Central Regional High." Megan McCafferty (born 1973), author best known for her Jessica Darling series.Ervolino, Bill. "Jessica's a step behind her author", The Record, September 9, 2007. "Like her heroine, McCafferty knows her way around the Garden State, having grown up in Bayville before moving to Brooklyn and Manhattan and then getting married and settling in -- ahem -- Princeton."
References
External links Bayville, NJ Community web site