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Populated place in Middlesex County, New Jersey, US

Unincorporated community in New Jersey, United States

Nixon, New Jersey
Unincorporated community
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Coordinates: 40°30′51″N 74°22′03″W / 40.51417°N 74.36750°W / 40.51417; -74.36750
Country	United States
State	New Jersey
County	Middlesex
Township	Edison
Elevation	52 ft (16 m)
GNIS feature ID	878807

Nixon is an unincorporated community located within Edison Township in Middlesex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It was named after Lewis Nixon, a manufacturer and community leader. Soon after the outbreak of World War I, Nixon established a massive volatile chemicals processing facility there, known as the Nixon Nitration Works. It was the site of the 1924 Nixon Nitration Works disaster, a massive explosion and resulting fire that killed 20 persons and destroyed several square miles around the plant.

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^ "Nixon". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
Locality Search, State of New Jersey. Accessed February 11, 2015.
Spies, Stacy (2001), Edison, Arcadia Publishing, ISBN 9780738505497
Staff. "FERTILIZER PLANT BLOWS UP; Theory Is That TNT, Accidentally Left in Shells, Caused Blast.", The New York Times, March 2, 1924. Accessed March 20, 2012. "At least twenty persons were killed yesterday in an explosion of a two-story tile and brick fertilizer building of Ammonite Company at Nixon, N.J., six miles northeast of New Brunswick. A dozen others were unaccounted for last night and were listed as missing."

v t e Edison, New Jersey
Sections	List of neighborhoods
Education	Edison Township Public Schools Edison High School J. P. Stevens High School Huaxia Edison Chinese School Middlesex County Magnet Schools Edison Academy Magnet School Middlesex County Academy Middlesex County College Wardlaw-Hartridge School Rabbi Pesach Raymon Yeshiva Rabbi Jacob Joseph School Edison branch St. Thomas Aquinas High School
Parks, recreation and entertainment	BAPS Swaminarayan Mandir Dismal Swamp Edison Wetlands Association Edison State Park Exxxotica Expo Middlesex Greenway Oak Ridge Park Plainfield Country Club Plays-in-the-Park Roosevelt Park Rutgers Ecological Preserve
Economy	Bare Necessities Crazy Eddie Gund Hackensack Meridian Health FedEx Ground Kam Man Food JFK Medical Center Menlo Park Mall News 12 New Jersey Oak Tree Road OrbitBeyond Raritan Center Zylog Systems
NRHP	Homestead Farm at Oak Ridge Laing House of Plainfield Plantation Roosevelt Hospital Benjamin Shotwell House Short Hills Battlefield Historic District Thomas Alva Edison Memorial Tower and Museum
History	Stelton Baptist Church Camp Kilmer Durham Woods explosion Edison Assembly Kin-Buc Landfill Mayor of Edison 1924 Nixon Nitration Works disaster Piscatawaytown Edison divorce torture plot People
Public transportation	Edison station Metropark Metuchen station NJT 800 buses
Roads and bridges	Raritan River bridges Interstate 287 New Jersey Turnpike U.S. Route 1 Route 27 Route 440 County Routes
This list is incomplete.

v t e Municipalities and communities of Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States
County seat: New Brunswick
Cities	New Brunswick Perth Amboy South Amboy	Map of New Jersey highlighting Middlesex County
Boroughs	Carteret Dunellen Helmetta Highland Park Jamesburg Metuchen Middlesex Milltown Sayreville South Plainfield South River Spotswood
Townships	Cranbury East Brunswick Edison Monroe North Brunswick Old Bridge Piscataway Plainsboro South Brunswick Woodbridge
CDPs	Avenel Brownville Clearbrook Colonia Concordia Cranbury Dayton Deans Encore at Monroe Fords Forsgate Heathcote Hopelawn Iselin Keasbey Kendall Park Kingston‡ Laurence Harbor Madison Park Menlo Park Terrace Monmouth Junction Monroe Manor Old Bridge Plainsboro Center Port Reading Princeton Meadows Regency at Monroe Renaissance at Monroe Rossmoor Rutgers University-Busch Campus Rutgers University-Livingston Campus Sewaren Society Hill Stonebridge The Ponds Whittingham Woodbridge
Other unincorporated communities	Adams Applegarth Bonhamtown Boynton Beach Brookview Browntown Cheesequake Chrome Clara Barton Cottageville Cottrell Corners Cranbury Station East Spotswood Edgars Edgebrook Feaster Park Fieldville Franklin Park Fresh Ponds Gillespie Gravel Hill Half Acre Halls Corner Hazelton Hoffman Lahiere Lincoln Park Lindenau Little Rocky Hill Lynn Woodoaks Maurer Mechanicsville Melrose Menlo Park Middlesex Downs Morgan Morgan Heights New Dover New Durham New Market Newtown Nixon North Stelton Old Bridge Old Church Orchard Heights Parlin Phoenix Piscatawaytown Possumtown Potters Prospect Plains Pumptown Randolphville Raritan Gardens Raritan Landing Riverview Manor Sand Hills Sayerwood South Sayre Woods Sayreville Junction Sayreville Station Schalks Shore Road Estates Shore View Spotswood Manor Stelton Union Valley West Carteret Westons Mills Woodbridge Oaks Wyckoffs Mills
Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties
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