The fixed point you are measuring from
Atlantic City sits at 39.3625 north latitude and 74.425 west longitude, and the nearest documented venue to that point is Showboat at 0.4 miles straight-line. Road distance is always longer than straight-line distance, and this article does not publish driving mileage or travel time for any pair.
The question "are there bingo in Atlantic City NJ" is a question about a place, not about a schedule. Bingo availability is a live operational detail that changes by day, by season, and by property decision, and no live schedule is documented here. What this article can do is fix the geography: where Atlantic City sits, which documented venues are nearest to it, and how to think about the gap between a straight line on a map and the road you would drive.
Atlantic City's position in the region
Atlantic City is a coastal city in New Jersey. Its coordinates place it on the state's southeastern edge, facing the Atlantic Ocean, which matters for any distance discussion because water is the single biggest reason a straight-line figure understates real travel.
The city's longitude of -74.425 puts it east of Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania venues documented in this file, and its latitude of 39.3625 puts it south of New York and north of the Delaware venues. None of that is a driving direction; it is only what the coordinates support.
Documented straight-line distances from Atlantic City
The table below lists every venue-to-Atlantic City pair that appears in the documented reference set. Every figure is a great-circle measurement, which is the shortest path over the earth's surface, not a road route.
| Reference point | Straight-line miles | Measurement type |
|---|---|---|
| Showboat | 0.4 | great-circle |
| Ocean Casino | 0.6 | great-circle |
| Parx | 59.3 | great-circle |
| Bally's Dover | 60.4 | great-circle |
| Harrington | 68.9 | great-circle |
| Delaware Park | 70.4 | great-circle |
| Valley Forge | 73.2 | great-circle |
| Ocean Downs | 80.3 | great-circle |
| Wind Creek | 99.7 | great-circle |
| Bethlehem | 99.7 | great-circle |
Showboat and Ocean Casino are both under one straight-line mile from Atlantic City's documented center point, which reflects the fact that they sit on or immediately adjacent to the city's boardwalk corridor. The remaining venues fan out across Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland at distances from roughly 59 to 100 straight-line miles.
Why straight-line distance understates the trip
A great-circle line ignores everything that shapes a journey. Three forces widen the gap between the figure in the table and the distance a vehicle travels.
Water is the first. Atlantic City is pinned against the Atlantic Ocean on its east side and sits behind a network of bays and inlets. A straight line to a point across the water has no road equivalent; the route must go around the water, which adds distance.
Road networks are the second. Highways do not run in straight lines between two arbitrary points. They follow historical corridors, avoid protected land, and connect intermediate population centers, so even a pair with no water between them will have a road distance meaningfully longer than the great-circle figure.
State boundaries are the third. Several pairs in the table cross from New Jersey into Pennsylvania, Delaware, or Maryland. A border crossing often forces a route onto a limited set of bridge or highway corridors, and those corridors are not placed where a straight line would be.
The venue set is not a census
This reference file documents 481 venues in total, and it is not a complete list of casinos or bingo halls in any city, county, state, or country. The fact that a venue does not appear in the table above does not mean it does not exist; it means it is not one of the documented venues measured to Atlantic City in this file.
For a complete current list of gaming venues in New Jersey, including any that offer bingo, the authoritative source is the state gaming regulator. That body maintains the official roster, and it is the only channel that can confirm which properties currently hold a bingo license or run a bingo hall.
What the word "bingo" changes about this article
Bingo is a game, and a game is a live offering, not a geographic fact. A venue's coordinates do not tell you whether that venue runs bingo on a Tuesday afternoon, whether it has a dedicated bingo hall, or whether bingo moved to a different property last month.
What the coordinates do tell you is which venues are physically closest to Atlantic City, and therefore which properties a reader would most plausibly check first. Showboat and Ocean Casino are the two documented venues inside one straight-line mile of the city's center point. Whether either runs bingo is a question for their published schedules, not for a distance table.
If your starting point is not Atlantic City
If the reader's question is "are there bingo near me" rather than "in Atlantic City," the reference point changes. The venue positions in this article are fixed; the reader's position is not, and no article can measure a distance from an unknown starting point.
The correct method is to take the venue's documented coordinates, take your own coordinates from a map application, and measure the pair yourself. A straight-line measurement is a useful sorting tool for which venues are candidates, but the only figure that matters for travel planning is the road distance from your actual origin, which a mapping tool computes on demand.
What to confirm before you go
If the goal is to play bingo at a specific venue, confirm before traveling that bingo is currently offered there, on which days, at which times, and in which room. A venue's bingo operation can move, pause, or end without any change to the venue's coordinates or its documented facility figures.
The channel that holds the current answer is the venue's own published schedule or its guest services line. A state gaming regulator can confirm which properties hold a bingo license, but the day-to-day session schedule lives with the operator.
FAQ
Does this article confirm that any Atlantic City venue currently offers bingo?
No. This article documents venue positions, not live game schedules. Showboat and Ocean Casino are the two documented venues nearest to Atlantic City's center point, but whether either currently runs bingo is a live operational detail that only the venue's published schedule or guest services can confirm.
Why is the straight-line distance to Parx 59.3 miles when the drive feels longer?
Because 59.3 miles is a great-circle measurement, the shortest path over the earth's surface. A road route from Atlantic City to Bensalem, Pennsylvania must follow actual highways, cross the Delaware River at a fixed bridge corridor, and navigate around water and protected land, all of which adds distance.
How do I measure the distance from my own location to a venue?
Take the venue's documented coordinates from this article, take your own coordinates from a map application, and measure the pair. For travel planning, use a mapping tool's road-distance calculation from your actual origin, because straight-line distance never equals the distance you will drive.
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