County Route 12 (Monmouth County, New Jersey)

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County Route 12 is a county highway located in Monmouth County, New Jersey.

Route description

County Route 12 begins at a realigned intersection with County Route 52 (Red Hill Road) in Middletown Township, and proceeds southeast on Dwight Road. After the junction with County Route 50 (Middletown-Lincroft Road), County Route 12 continues as Nut Swamp Road southeast to its junction with County Route 12A (Navesink River Road). Between County Route 12A and its terminus at County Route 10 (West Front Street), County Route 12 is known as Hubbard Avenue. ["County Roads Straight Line Diagrams", Prepared by the Monmouth County Planning Board, April 10, 2006.]

History

In the 1937 renumbering of Monmouth County highways, the County Route 12 designation was assigned to a road which ran from Hendrickson's Corner to the Middletown Township Hall. This route included Old Country Road, Harmony Road between Old Country Road and Route 35, and Kings Highway from Route 35 and doubling back to Route 35. It also included what would become County Route 12A; that route was suffixed by 1939. Portions of old County Route 12 northwest of Old Country Road are now closed. This route was decommissioned in an exchange with Middletown Township on March 25, 1943; the new route taken over was Nut Swamp Road between Shadow Lake Dam and Middletown-Lincroft Road. (This exchange also extended County Route 12A to its present eastern terminus.) [Resolution, Monmouth County Board of Chosen Freeholders, March 25, 1943] ;County Route 12 was extended southeast to its present terminus at County Route 10 on April 20, 1960. [Resolution, Monmouth County Board of Chosen Freeholders, Apr. 20, 1960] On August 17, 1965, Dwight Road was added, and CR 12 was extended west to County Route 52. [Resolution, Monmouth County Board of Chosen Freeholders, Aug. 17, 1965] In 2008, the intersection with County Route 52 was realigned.

ee also

*County routes in New Jersey

References