Gillette, New Jersey


Gillette is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Long Hill Township, Morris County, New Jersey, United States. The area is served as United States Postal Service ZIP Code 07933. As of the 2020 United States census, the CDP had a population of 2,956.

Geography

Gillette is in southern Morris County, in the eastern third of Long Hill Township. It is bordered to the west by Stirling, also within Long Hill Township; to the north by Harding Township; and to the east by Chatham Township. The community's southern border is the Passaic River, across which is Union County to the southeast and Somerset County to the southwest.
The unincorporated community of Gillette is in the southern part of the Gillette CDP; Meyersville is in the northern part. The two settled areas are separated by Long Hill, summit elevation, which rises about above the neighboring valleys. Morristown, the county seat, is to the north, while downtown Newark is to the east. Interstate 78 passes less than to the south of Gillette, with access from Exit 40, Hillcrest Road.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Gillette CDP has a total area of, of which are land and, or 3.18%, are water. The entire CDP is within the watershed of the Passaic River leading to Newark Bay.

Demographics

Gillette was first listed as a census designated place in the 2020 U.S. census.

Park

Gillette's Riverside Park was renamed Matthew G. Kantor Memorial Park in 2013, to honor a Navy SEAL killed in Afghanistan in 2012.

Notable people

People who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Gillette include: