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Raritan is a borough in Somerset County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 7,835, [9] [10] its highest decennial census count ever and an increase of 954 (+13.9%) from the 2010 census count of 6,881, [19] [20] which in turn had reflected an increase of 543 (+8.6%) from the 6,338 counted at the 2000 census.
The name Raritan likely came from one of the Lenape languages (among the languages in the Algonquian language group), though there are a variety of interpretations as to its meaning. It may derive from Naraticong [2] meaning "river beyond the island." Raritan is a Dutch pronunciation of wawitan or rarachons, meaning "forked river" or "stream ...
Raritan, Illinois, a village; Raritan, New Jersey, a borough in Somerset County; Raritan Bay, a bay between the U.S. states of New York and New Jersey; Raritan High School, the public high school in Hazlet, New Jersey; Raritan River, a tributary of Raritan Bay in New Jersey; Raritan Township (disambiguation)
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Raritan; Raritan Township; Repaupo (part of Logan Township) Rockaway [citation needed] Rockaway Creek [citation needed] Rockaway River [citation needed] Rumson; Secaucus; Shamong Township; Sicomac; Singac (part of Little Falls) South Amboy; Squankum (part of Howell Township and also the original name of Williamstown) Succasunna; Teaneck; Totowa ...
The Navesink, or Navisink, (or Nave Sinck) [1] were a group of Lenape who inhabited the Raritan Bayshore near Sandy Hook and Mount Mitchill in eastern New Jersey in the United States. Their territory included the peninsula, as well as the highlands south of it, where they lived along its cliffs and creeks.
Bergen was a part of the 17th-century Dutch colony of New Netherland, in what is now northeastern New Jersey. Placenames in most cases had their roots in Algonquian Lenape and Dutch. [1] At the time of European settlement, the area was largely the territory of the Acquackanonk Raritan, Tappan, and Hackensack Native American tribes.
Raritan Township is a township in Hunterdon County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 23,447, [9] [10] an increase of 1,262 (+5.7%) from the 2010 census count of 22,185, [18] [19] which in turn reflected an increase of 2,376 (+12.0%) from the 19,809 counted in the 2000 census. [20]