This area has been in the news several times in the last few years:

• In April 1999, Nearly 12,000 acres of forest, wetlands, cedar swamp and cranberry bogs burned after a Pennsylvania Air National Guard plane dropped a "dummy" bomb more than a mile from its target.
• In June 2001, a 1,600 acres forest fire was caused when an Air National Guard plane dropped a 25-pound practice bomb at the range.
• In January 2002, another aircraft practicing at Warren Grove crashed near the Garden State Parkway spewing flames and molten metal across the busy road.
• In November 2004, an F-16 fired 25 rounds that hit the Little Egg Harbor Intermediate School.
• In May 2007, flares dropped from an F-16 belonging to the 177th Fighter Wing set off a large wildfire that consumed more than 18,000 acres of the Pinelands and forced the evacuation of hundreds of residents.

  Despite being unincorporated, this area does have inhabitants, and perhaps was more of a community than it is now before the military began using it.

  Here are some news items from Warren Grove from old area newspapers:
  

  NEW JERSEY COURIER 21 NOV 1930 Mr. and Mrs. JWm. Holloway and daughters were callers in Manahawkin Sunday. Roy Cox of Barnegat was in town Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. John Harbolt of Jobstown spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Holloway. Arch Parker and friend of Parkertown were in town Wednesday. S.C. Haverley of Plainfield has been spending a few days with George Cranmer. Wm. Berry of Beach Haven was in town Friday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Ridgeway of Barnegat were recent callers in town. Mrs. Sallie Penn, Marion and Dorothy Penn, of Waretown, were Friday afternoon callers on Mrs. Chas. Holloway. Wm. and Jack Wescott of Camden were in town Tuesday. Howard Wainwright of Waretown was in town Tuesday. Hill Corlis was in Sim Place Saturday. Mrs. Rogers of Bayville was a visitor in town Wednesday. H. King of Beach Haven was in town Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Genone and children of Chatsworth, were in town Sunday. Ellsworth Harris, Tracey Hitchner and Everett Hitchner of Elmer, were Sunday visitors with Ward Holloway. Alonzo Sheron, Harold Vell and Charles Bock of Manahawkin were Saturday callers with Wm. Holloway. Elmer Weidner of Beach Haven and Morton G. Neff, Jr. of Philadelphia were in town Sunday. Rev. and Mrs. George Southard of Waretown were Sunday callers on Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Cranmer. Lewis Corliss and sons of Chatsworth were in town Sunday. Clarence Corliss and Wm. Giberson were in Manahawkin recently. Chas. Holloway and daughter Marion were recent vistors with Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Andrews of Columbus. Joseph Holloway of Sandy Ridge and Al Hunt of Moorestown were in town Tuesday. Howard Wainwright of Waretown was in town Sunday. Misses Ada and Viola Cranmer and Charles Holman were in Atlantic City. Otto Luhrs of Toms River was in town Saturday. Misses Hildegarde Fitzmaurice, Elizabeth Ballentine, Mildred Purnell, Mary Driver and Lorrain Nichols all of Philadelphia, spent Saturday evening with Mrs. Chas. Holloway. Fred Fielder of New Egypt was a Sunday visitor with Richard Corlis. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Loid of Pemberton were Sunday visitors with Mrs. Catherine Corlis. Mr. Mrs. Harper Applegate of Dover were Monday morning callers on Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Holloway. Stanley Morton and friends of Bradley Beach were in town Saturday. Charles Holman of Asbury Park spent the week end with Wm. Cranmer. Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Cranmer and daughter Kathryn spent Sunday with Mrs. Cahterine Corlis. Harvey Cranmer of Manahawkin was in town Wednesday. Raymond Cranmer of Manahawin was in town recently. Mrs. Sallie Penn of Waretown was in town Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Holloway and daughters were in Tuckerton Sunday.