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Newton is located near the headwaters of the east branch of the Paulins Kill, a 41.6-mile (66.9 km) tributary of the Delaware River. [27] In October 1715, Colonial surveyor Samuel Green plotted a tract of 2,500 acres (1,000 ha) at the head of the Paulins Kill, then known as the Tohokenetcunck River, on behalf of William Penn.
Newton Township-March 27, 1751 by colonial county courts: April 11, 1864 by division: approx. 360 square miles (930 km 2) [f] Created by the colonial courts in Morris County from New Jersey's last unorganized wilderness areas; [23] one of original four precincts ceded to create Sussex County in 1753. [3]
Sussex County lies within the Kittatinny Mountains of Northwestern New Jersey and the overall Appalachian Mountains range. High Point, located at the northernmost tip of New Jersey in Montague Township, is the highest natural elevation in the state at 1,803 feet (550 m) above sea level.
New Jersey's county names derive from several sources, though most of its counties are named after place names in England and prominent leaders in the colonial and revolutionary periods. Bergen County is the most populous county—as of the 2010 Census—with 905,116 people, while Salem County is the least populous with 66,083 people.
The Garden State's population jumped from 9.26 million in 2022 to 9.29 million this year, according to a report released Tuesday by the United States Census Bureau. The increase of 30,024 marks ...
New Jersey is a state located in the Northeastern United States.According to the 2020 United States Census, New Jersey is the 11th most populous state with 9,288,994 inhabitants but the fifth smallest by land area, spanning 7,354.76 square miles (19,048.7 km 2). [1]
Byram Township is a township in Sussex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 8,028, [12] [13] a decrease of 322 (−3.9%) from the 2010 census count of 8,350, [20] [21] which in turn reflected an increase of 96 (+1.2%) from the 8,254 counted in the 2000 census.
The Newton Public School District is a comprehensive community public school district serving students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade from Newton, in Sussex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.