Nixon is an unincorporated community located within Edison Township in Middlesex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

[2][3] It was named after Lewis Nixon, a manufacturer and community leader.

Soon after the outbreak of World War I, Nixon established a massive volatile chemicals processing facility there, known as the Nixon Nitration Works.

It was the site of the 1924 Nixon Nitration Works disaster, a massive explosion and resulting fire that killed 20 persons and destroyed several square miles around the plant.

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