Mountain Lakes, New Jersey
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Mountain Lakes is a Borough in Morris County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the borough population was 4,256.
Mountain Lakes was incorporated as a borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 3, 1924, from portions of Boonton Township and Hanover Township, subject to the results of a referendum passed on April 29, 1924.[1]
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[edit] Geography
Mountain Lakes is located at (40.887349, -74.440819)GR1.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of 7.5 km² (2.9 mi²). 6.9 km² (2.7 mi²) of it is land and 0.6 km² (0.2 mi²) of it (7.61%) is water.
Part of The Tourne county park is in Mountain Lakes.
[edit] Demographics
| Historical populations | |||
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| Census | Pop. | %± | |
| 1930 | 2,132 |
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| 1940 | 2,205 | 3.4% | |
| 1950 | 2,806 | 27.3% | |
| 1960 | 4,037 | 43.9% | |
| 1970 | 4,739 | 17.4% | |
| 1980 | 4,153 | -12.4% | |
| 1990 | 3,847 | -7.4% | |
| 2000 | 4,256 | 10.6% | |
| Est. 2005 | 4,336 | [2] | 1.9% |
| Population 1930 - 1990.[3] | |||
As of the censusGR2 of 2000, there were 4,256 people, 1,330 households, and 1,186 families residing in the borough. The population density was 615.4/km² (1,593.0/mi²). There were 1,357 housing units at an average density of 196.2/km² (507.9/mi²). The racial makeup of the borough was 93.05% White, 0.38% African American, 5.17% Asian, 0.07% Pacific Islander, 0.52% from other races, and 0.82% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.69% of the population.
There were 1,330 households out of which 53.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 83.3% were married couples living together, 3.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 10.8% were non-families. 9.2% of all households were made up of individuals and 4.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.20 and the average family size was 3.41.
In the borough the population was spread out with 35.7% under the age of 18, 3.1% from 18 to 24, 23.4% from 25 to 44, 28.7% from 45 to 64, and 9.1% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 39 years. For every 100 females there were 99.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 94.0 males.
The median income for a household in the borough was $141,757, and the median income for a family was $153,227. Males had a median income of $100,000 versus $61,098 for females. The per capita income for the borough was $65,086. About 1.4% of families and 2.0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 0.7% of those under age 18 and 2.3% of those age 65 or over.
[edit] Government
[edit] Local government
The Borough Council of the Borough of Mountain Lakes consists of seven elected officials. Council Members are elected for four-year terms from the population at large. The Mayor and Deputy Mayor are chosen from within the Council by the members of the Council at a Reorganization meeting held each year during the first week in January.
Members of the Mountain Lakes Borough Council are Mayor Mayor George Jackson, Deputy Mayor Louise Davis, Ellen Emr, Charles Gormally, Blair Schleicher-Wilson, Stephen Shaw and Richard Urankar.[4]
[edit] Federal, state and county representation
Mountain Lakes is in the Eleventh Congressional District and is part of New Jersey's 25th Legislative District.[5]
New Jersey's Eleventh Congressional District, covering western portions of Essex County, all of Morris County, and sections of Passaic County, Somerset County and Sussex County, is represented by Rodney Frelinghuysen (R, Harding Township). New Jersey is represented in the Senate by Frank Lautenberg (D, Cliffside Park) and Bob Menendez (D, Hoboken).
The 25th legislative district of the New Jersey Legislature is represented in the State Senate by Anthony Bucco (R, Denville) and in the Assembly by Michael Patrick Carroll (R, Morristown) and Richard A. Merkt (R, Randolph). The Governor of New Jersey is Jon Corzine (D, Hoboken).
Morris County is governed by a seven-member Board of Chosen Freeholders. Morris County's Freeholders are: Margaret Nordstrom (Freeholder Director), John Inglesino (Freeholder Deputy Director), Douglas R. Cabana, Frank J. Druetzler, Cecilia G. Laureys, John J. Murphy, and Jack Schrier.
[edit] Education
The Mountain Lakes Schools serve students in kindergarten through twelfth grade. Schools in the district are Wildwood School for grades K-5, Briarcliff School for grades 6-8 and Mountain Lakes High School for grades 9-12. Lake Drive School serves as a regional school for deaf and hard of hearing students from birth through high school, with approximately 250 students from nearly 100 communities in twelve New Jersey counties.
Mountain Lakes is home for The Craig School, a private coeducational day school serving students in third through twelfth grade. The school has an enrollment of 160 students split between the Lower School (grades 3-8), located in Mountain Lakes, and the Upper School (grades 9-12), in Lincoln Park.
[edit] Popular culture
The borough's police department was featured on an episode of the Discovery Channel show It Takes a Thief.
[edit] References
- ^ "The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries: 1606-1968", John P. Snyder, Bureau of Geology and Topography; Trenton, New Jersey; 1969. p. 195.
- ^ Census data for Mountain Lakes borough, United States Census Bureau, accessed March 1, 2007
- ^ Jersey Resident Population by Municipality: 1930 - 1990, accessed March 1, 2007
- ^ Mountain Lakes Borough Council, accessed March 11, 2007
- ^ League of Women Voters: 2006 New Jersey Citizen's Guide to Government, p. 61, accessed August 30, 2006
[edit] External links
- Mountain Lakes website
- Mountain Lakes Schools
- Mountain Lakes Schools's 2005-06 School Report Card from the New Jersey Department of Education
- National Center for Education Statistics data for the Mountain Lakes Schools
- Regional area newspaper
- Hub Lakes Home Pagead
- Maps and aerial photos
- Street map from Google Maps, or Yahoo! Maps, or Windows Live Local
- Satellite image from Google Maps, Windows Live Local, WikiMapia
- Topographic map from TopoZone
- Aerial image or topographic map from TerraServer-USA
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