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Somerville is a borough and the county seat of Somerset County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. [19] [20] The borough is located in the heart of the Raritan Valley region within the New York Metropolitan Area, located about 33 miles (53 km) from Manhattan and 20 miles (32 km) from Staten Island.
Title 40 of the New Jersey Statutes allows the state's municipalities to be incorporated under five types- city, town, township, borough, and village, with twelve management forms. The U.S. Census Bureau reports that New Jersey has 252 boroughs, 52 cities, 15 towns, 241 townships, and 4 villages.
The Faulkner Act was created to provide municipalities with greater flexibility than provided in New Jersey's traditional forms of government ( city, township, borough, town and village) and to expand on the reforms provided in the Walsh Act and the 1923 Municipal Manager Law . As originally enacted in 1950, the Faulkner Act provided for three ...
The NJ Historical Portal is an open source collection of text searchable out-of-copyright publications from across New Jersey from the period 1850–1923; Dorwart, Jeffery M., and Mackey, Philip English. Camden County, New Jersey, 1616–1976 : a narrative history (1976) online free to borrow; Nelson, William, and Charles A. Shriner.
Runnemede is a borough in Camden County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 8,324, a decrease of 144 (−1.7%) from the 2010 census count of 8,468, which in turn reflected a decline of 65 (−0.8%) from the 8,533 counted in the 2000 census.
Pine Hill is a borough in Camden County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 10,743, an increase of 510 (+5.0%) from the 2010 census count of 10,233, which in turn reflected a decline of 647 (−5.9%) from the 10,880 counted in the 2000 census.
The coat of arms of the state of New Jersey includes: A shield with three plows, representative of New Jersey 's agricultural tradition. A forward-facing helmet. A horse's head as the crest of the helmet. The female figures Liberty and Ceres, representative of the state's motto (see next item). Liberty is holding a staff supporting a stylized ...
Waterford Township is a township in Camden County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 10,421, [9] [10] a decrease of 228 (−2.1%) from the 2010 census count of 10,649, [18] [19] which in turn reflected an increase of 155 (+1.5%) from the 10,494 counted in the 2000 census.