Hibernia is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) located along County Route 513 (Green Pond Road) in Rockaway Township of Morris County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The area is served as United States Postal Service ZIP Code 07842. The community takes its name from Hibernia, the classical name for Ireland. As of the 2020 United States census, the area had a population of 208. The Hibernia mines, a series of iron mines worked from pre-Revolutionary times until 1916, are located here.

Geography

Hibernia is in northern Morris County, just south of the geographic center of Rockaway Township. It is bordered to the north by the community of Lake Telemark and to the south by the community of White Meadow Lake. County Route 513 (Green Pond Road) passes through Hibernia, leading north 6 mi to Green Pond and 9 mi to New Jersey Route 23 at Newfoundland, while to the south it leads less than 4 mi to Rockaway borough. The community sits at an elevation of 650 ft in the valley of Hibernia Brook, between hills which rise to elevations over 1000 ft to the east and west. Hibernia Brook flows south toward Beaver Brook and is part of the Rockaway River watershed leading east to the Passaic River. Since 1970, the former Methodist Episcopal Church on Green Pond Road has been used as a branch of the Rockaway Township Free Public Library.

Demographics

Notable people

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