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Welcome to Herbertsville ...

Herbertsville is located in Ocean County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Herbertsville, you might consider that their post office opened in 1884.

Herbertsville is 50 feet [15 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Herbertsville lies in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time

Websites for Herbertsville ...

Chamber of Commerce:   www.oc-chamber.com/

Although we don't have any websites that are specific to Herbertsville, the following might be of interest:

Communities near Herbertsville ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Herbertsville.

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Herbertsville. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Herbertsville.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Herbertsville. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Herbertsville.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Herbertsville. See our Newspapers Page for Herbertsville.

Adding Herbertsville to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Herbertsville in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for Herbertsville was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

From that list, the Herbertsville post office opened in 1884. The Herbertsville post office closed in 1938.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Herbertsville.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of New Jersey's counties, including Ocean, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Herbertsville - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>A copy of the Blevins & Helbock Post Office list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/