Myriad Lots on 563

[johnnyb]

Thanks to a recent posting on this site, there's a map of NJ showing property lines all over the state.
The map shows zillions of little lots from Chatsworth north to NJ 72, most without listed owners.
Was this to be a super-big development that never happened?
When were the subdivisions created? By whom?
Was there ever an effort to consolidate them?
How does the Pinelands commission deal with this?

 

[manumuskin]

There known as "paper roads" yes big plans by peopl who only see a dollar when they look at the pines,fortunately plans that fell through. Some places you can go and the roads are there but that is all that was made.Nothing else and soon most of the roads disappear. DeCarlos lots down my way are like that. Folks have kept a few roads open but most are filled with young pines or at best are walking trails now. The same kind of mentality that wanted to make the Barrens a Jetport.

 

[Boyd]

There are a lot of these in Atlantic County. My own property out in the woods is actually landlocked but the boundaries are defined by non-existant paper streets. I have looked many times and see no evidence that those paper streets ever really existed anywhere but the tax map. Access today is via a private right-of-way across my neighbor's land.

 

[amf]

Often these small lots were given away for little or no money as incentives for various purposes.

 

[Badfish740]

Thanks to a recent posting on this site, there's a map of NJ showing property lines all over the state.

You're welcome Fascinating isn't it? Through that site I was able to deduce that a gentleman with a Trenton mailing address (not far from where my mother grew up) owns some acreage smack in the middle of Walpack, the town that managed to survive the ill fated Tocks Island Dam project and is now literally part of the Delaware Water Gap NRA.