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is a city in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the city population was 11,614.
The City of Somers Point is in the eastern part of Atlantic County, southwest of Atlantic City.
Somers Point was once known as the Somerset Plantation and its settlement started around 1693.
Somers Point was originally incorporated as a borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 24, 1886, from portions of Egg Harbor Township, based on the results of a referendum held five days earlier. The borough was reincorporated on April 2, 1890, based on the previous day's referendum. Somers Point was incorporated as a city on April 9, 1902, from all of Somers Point borough and additional portions of Egg Harbor Township.