Lincoln Park, NJ
Roofing in Lincoln Park, NJ: Between the Pompton and Passaic
The Passaic River forms Lincoln Park's southern border and the Pompton River its eastern one, and Main Street, part of Route 202, is one of the borough's listed evacuation routes. Roughly 68 percent of the borough lies in the 100-year floodplain, which makes roof water and river water two separate questions. Dial (862) 972-4008 for the roof side. Roof repair and ice dams are the jobs that come up first.
What roofs here deal with
Roofs in the floodplain: what is different and what is not
Homes built in the 1980s, the borough's biggest decade at an estimated 1,177, are now in their fifth decade, and 2,296 of Lincoln Park's 4,050 homes date from before 1980 (Census, 2020-2024). For roofs that old, the useful question is when the covering was last redone, and the attic usually answers it.
Flooding adds problems that are not roof problems: wet basements, boilers, flooring. New Jersey's insurance department notes that standard policies do not cover flood, so a roof claim and a flood claim are separate. The county's 2020 release says Lincoln Park holds 26 of the county's 78 flood buyout grants, a sign of how often the river has been in the news here.
Weather record
The borough's flood page lists floods in 2007, 2010 and twice in 2011, and calls Irene, in late August and September 2011, the flood of record.
It warns that roads and bridges can close and power can go out. On 3 July 2018 a flash flood put water on roads across Lincoln Park, according to the Morris County hazard plan. For roof weather, the nearest almanac in this set is Newark's: a 32.8 degree January average and 9.1 inches of snow (1991-2020).
On the map
Pequannock north, Wayne east, Fairfield south
Straight-line distances run center to center, from the Census Bureau's 2024 internal points, so a drive is longer.
- Pequannock roofing2.7 miles due north.
- Wayne roofing3.4 miles east-northeast.
- Fairfield roofing2.9 miles due south, across the Passaic.
- Kinnelon roofing5.9 miles northwest.
Lincoln Park at the centre
Pages behind these notes 11
- Borough of Lincoln Park, Flood Information
- Borough of Lincoln Park, Construction Department
- Borough of Lincoln Park, Inspections
- U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2020-2024 5-year, Table B25034 Year Structure Built, Lincoln Park borough
- U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2020-2024 5-year, Table B25035 Median Year Structure Built, Lincoln Park borough
- U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2020-2024 5-year, Table B25003 Tenure, Lincoln Park borough
- Morris County Office of Emergency Management, Hazard mitigation plan, Section 4.3.6 Flood
- Morris County, Flood mitigation program restoring flood-prone Lincoln Park properties to open space (1 Jun 2020)
- National Weather Service, Newark January almanac, 1991-2020 normals
- NJ Department of Banking and Insurance, Guidance on filing insurance claims for storm-related damage
- U.S. Census Bureau, 2024 Gazetteer Files, county subdivisions, New Jersey
Checked 1 Nov 2026