 The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad opened a station in Johnsonburg in 1911, along a mainline running between Hoboken, New Jersey and Buffalo, New York.The railway was important to local dairy farmers, who shipped their products east to Newark and New York City.According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP had a total area of 0.196 square miles (0.509 km2), all of which was water.