Place:Brick, Ocean, New Jersey, United States

Name	Brick
Alt names	Brick Township
	Brick Town	source: USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS34003731
	Bricktown	source: USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS34003731
	Burrs Forge	source: USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS34003731
	Burrsville	source: USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS34003731
	Butchers Forge	source: USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS34003731
	Butchers Works	source: USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS34003731
	Laurelton	source: rejected name in 1963
Type	Township
Coordinates	40.067°N 74.117°W
Located in	Ocean, New Jersey, United States (1850 - )

source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

Brick Township (also commonly known as Bricktown or Brick) is a township in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States.

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incorporated as a township by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 15, 1850, from portions of both Dover Township (now Toms River Township) and Howell Township.
named after Joseph Brick, the owner of Bergen Iron Works located on the Metedeconk River.
Portions of the township were taken to form Point Pleasant Beach (May 18, 1886), Bay Head (June 15, 1886), Lakewood Township (March 23, 1892), Mantoloking (April 10, 1911) and Point Pleasant (April 21, 1920).
In 1963 voters rejected a referendum that would have changed the township's name to "Laurelton"