Montgomery Township, New Jersey
| Montgomery Township, New Jersey | |
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| Township | |
| Township of Montgomery | |
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 Map of Montgomery Township in Somerset County. Inset: Location of Somerset County highlighted in the State of New Jersey. |
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 Census Bureau map of Montgomery Township, New Jersey |
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| Coordinates: 40°25′42″N 74°40′36″W / 40.428334°N 74.676696°WCoordinates: 40°25′42″N 74°40′36″W / 40.428334°N 74.676696°W | |
| Country |
 United States
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| State |
 New Jersey
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| County | Somerset |
| Incorporated | February 21, 1798 |
| Named for | Colonel Richard Montgomery |
| Government | |
| • Type | Township |
| • Body | Township Committee |
| • Mayor | Patricia Graham (R, term ends December 31, 2015) |
| • Administrator | Donato Nieman |
| • Clerk | Donna Kukla |
| Area | |
| • Total | 32.480 sq mi (84.123 km2) |
| • Land | 32.307 sq mi (83.674 km2) |
| • Water | 0.173 sq mi (0.449 km2) 0.53% |
| Area rank | 75th of 566 in state 4th of 21 in county |
| Elevation | 98 ft (30 m) |
| Population (2010 Census) | |
| • Total | 22,254 |
| • Estimate (2015) | 23,049 |
| • Rank | 115th of 566 in state 5th of 21 in county |
| • Density | 688.8/sq mi (265.9/km2) |
| • Density rank | 414th of 566 in state 16th of 21 in county |
| Time zone | Eastern (EST) (UTC-5) |
| • Summer (DST) | Eastern (EDT) (UTC-4) |
| ZIP code | 08502 - Belle Mead 08558 - Skillman 08540 - Princeton |
| Area code(s) | 908 |
| FIPS code | 3403547580 |
| GNIS feature ID | 0882168 |
| Website | www |
Montgomery Township is a township in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township's population was 22,254, reflecting an increase of 4,773 (+27.3%) from the 17,481 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 7,869 (+81.9%) from the 9,612 counted in the 1990 Census.
Montgomery Township was incorporated on February 21, 1798, as one of New Jersey's initial group of 104 townships by an act of the New Jersey Legislature, from what remained of Western precinct. Portions of the township were taken to form Princeton borough (February 11, 1813, in Mercer County, consolidated to form Princeton as of January 1, 2013), Princeton Township (April 9, 1838, also now consolidated into Princeton) and Rocky Hill (December 18, 1889).
The area now known as Montgomery Township was inhabited for approximately 20,000 years by Lenni Lenape tribal groups. The current Native American population of Montgomery Township is just under 0.1% of the total population.
The first European landowners in what was to become Montgomery Township, such as Johannas Van Home and Peter Sonmans, were speculators who did not live on the land, but sold large parts of what they owned to companies that subdivided it into farm-sized plots for those who did intend to settle. Many speculators and early settlers were of Dutch descent from the New Amsterdam area (especially Long Island), which, after the British ousted the Dutch (1664), was renamed New York in honor of the Duke of York (the future James II). The Township was originally known as the Western Precinct of Somerset County (i.e. west of the Millstone River). Before the creation of Mercer County in 1838, the southern border extended to Nassau Street in Princeton. In 1798 the Western Precinct was organized as Montgomery Township, named for Colonel Richard Montgomery, who fell fighting for the patriot cause in the Battle of Quebec at the start of the Revolution (1775).
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