Editing Mannington Township, New Jersey (section)

====Roads and highways====
{{As of|2010|5}}, the township had a total of {{convert|69.40|mi}} of roadways, of which {{convert|30.42|mi}} were maintained by the municipality, {{convert|32.36|mi}} by Salem County and {{convert|6.62|mi}} by the [[New Jersey Department of Transportation]].<ref>[http://www.state.nj.us/transportation/refdata/sldiag/mileage_Salem.pdf Salem County Mileage by Municipality and Jurisdiction], [[New Jersey Department of Transportation]], May 2010. Accessed July 18, 2014.</ref>

[[New Jersey Route 45]] (Salem-Woodstown Road) is the main highway serving Mannington Township. [[County Route 540 (New Jersey)|County Route 540]] (Pointers Auburn Road) also traverses the township. Their convergence with Pointers Sharptown Road ([[County Route 620 (Salem County, New Jersey)|County Route 620]]) is named Pointers, or the Pointers, which "pointed" toward [[Salem, New Jersey|Salem]].
<ref>{{cite web |title=Local Names |publisher=State of New Jersey |url=http://www.state.nj.us/infobank/localnames.txt |access-date=January 4, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.westjerseyhistory.org/books/salemnames/|title=West Jersey History Project - Place Names of Salem County N.J. by Josephine Jaquett and Elmer VanName|website=www.westjerseyhistory.org |quote = The juncture of highways north of Salem where the road divides to Woodstown, Sharptown and Penn's Neck.}}</ref><ref name="NJGPP">{{cite book |title=New Jersey, a Guide to Its Present and Past | publisher = Viking |year=1939 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t6wmzEJvTGcC&pg=PA631 |page=631 |isbn=9781603540292}}</ref><ref name = NJDOT>{{cite web  |title = NJDOT Graphic Information System Maps Salem |publisher = New Jersey Department of Transportation|url = https://www.state.nj.us/transportation/refdata/gis/maps/Salem.pdf |access-date = March 20, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title = Acts of the General Assembly of the State of New-Jersey|publisher = New Jersey Legislature
|year = 1852 |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Ai9AAQAAMAAJ&dq=Woodstown%2C+Sharpstown%2C+and+Sculltown+pointers+roads&pg=PA334|accessdate = March 21, 2022 |quote= ...''the junction of the roads from Woodstown, Sharpstown, and Sculltown to Salem (commonly called the Pointers)''...}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Caton |first1=Philip B. |last2=Specca |first2=Lisa Y. |title=Comprehensive Farmland Preservation Plan |publisher=Mannington Township |date=2010 |url=http://www.manningtontwp.com/pdfs/2013_0506_FarmlandPreservationPlan.pdf }}</ref>