Sheppards Mill, NJ

Sheppards Mill is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Cumberland County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Sheppards Mill is located in the western part of the county in northeastern Greenwich Township and southwestern Hopewell Township. The community is centered on Mill Creek, which is dammed to form Sheppards Millpond in the northwestern part of the CDP. Sheppards Mill's local map joins its older history to the places and landscapes that still shape the town today, all within the wider New Jersey setting. The local scoop is how Sheppards Mill's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet. Mill Creek is a southwest-flowing tributary of Wheaton Run, part of the Cohansey River watershed leading to Delaware Bay. The community is 5 miles southwest of Bridgeton, the Cumberland county seat, and less than 2 miles northeast of the village of Greenwich.