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Turnersville is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) located within Washington Township, in Gloucester County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. [9] As of the 2010 United States census, the CDP's population was 3,742. [10] [11] The community was named for the Turner family, one of the original families of Washington ...
Turnersville, New Jersey, an unincorporated community; ... Turnersville, Texas, a town; See also. Turnerville (disambiguation) This page was last edited on 30 ...
A township, in the context of New Jersey local government, refers to one of five types and one of eleven forms of municipal government. As a political entity, a township in New Jersey is a full-fledged municipality, on par with any town, city, borough, or village. They collect property taxes and provide services such as maintaining roads ...
Local government in New Jersey is composed of counties and municipalities. Local jurisdictions in New Jersey differ from those in some other states because the entire area of the state is part of a municipality; each of the 564 municipalities is in exactly one county; and each of the 21 counties has more than one municipality.
The Optional Municipal Charter Law or Faulkner Act (N.J.S.A 40:69A-1 [1], et seq.) provides New Jersey municipalities with a variety of models of local government. This legislation is called the Faulkner Act in honor of the late Bayard H. Faulkner, former mayor of Montclair, New Jersey, U.S., and former chairman of the Commission on Municipal Government.
Gloucester County (/ ˈ ɡ l ɒ s t ər / GLOST-ər) is a county in the U.S. state of New Jersey.As of the 2020 census, the county was the state's 14th-most populous county [5] with a population of 302,294, [2] [3] its highest decennial count ever and an increase of 14,006 (+4.9%) from the 288,288 counted in the 2010 census, [6] which in turn represented an increase of 33,615 (+13.2%) from the ...
Washington Township is a township in Gloucester County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 48,677, [8] [9] an increase of 118 (+0.2%) from the 2010 census count of 48,559, [23] [24] which in turn reflected an increase of 1,445 (+3.1%) from the 47,114 counted in the 2000 census. [25]
Cape May Court House is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) [9] located within Middle Township in Cape May County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. [10] [11] It is part of the Ocean City metropolitan statistical area. [12]