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Place Name
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Salem County
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Pronunciation
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SAI-luhm
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Place Status (Type)
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county
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Capital is
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Salem
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Population
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65,294 (1990)
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Location
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New Jersey, United States, North America
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Latitude
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unknown
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Longitude
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unknown
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Salem
(SAI-luhm), county (
350 sq mi/907 sq km; 1990 pop.
65,294), SW N.J., bounded W by Delaware R.;  Salem. Mfg.
(chemicals and allied prods., glass containers, food prods., women's
clothing, floor coverings, electronic connectors); dairying; agr.
(produce, fruit; soybeans; poultry). N.J.'s least densely populated
county and one of its poorest. Includes Parvin State Park. Drained by
Maurice and Salem rivers and Oldmans, Alloway's, and Stow creeks.
Nuclear power plants: Hope Creek (initial criticality June 28, 1986;
max. dependable capacity 1,031 MWe) is
18 mi/29 km SE of Wilmington, Delaware (DE). Salem
1 (initial criticality December 11, 1976) and Salem 2 (initial
criticality August 8, 1980) are 18 mi/29 km S
of Wilminton, Delaware (DE), and each has a max. dependable capacity of
1,106 MWe. All 3 use cooling water from the Delaware R. Formed
1681.
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