| Boonton Township, New Jersey | |
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| — Township — | |
| Boonton Township highlighted in Morris County. Inset map: Morris County highlighted in the State of New Jersey. | |
| Census Bureau map of Boonton Township, New Jersey | |
| Coordinates: | |
| Country | United States |
| State | New Jersey |
| County | Morris |
| Incorporated | April 11, 1867 |
| Government[1] | |
| • Type | Township (New Jersey) |
| • Mayor | Michele Rankin |
| • Administrator | Barbara Shepard |
| Area | |
| • Total | 8.6 sq mi (22.2 km2) |
| • Land | 8.4 sq mi (21.8 km2) |
| • Water | 0.2 sq mi (0.4 km2) |
| Elevation[2] | 512 ft (156 m) |
| Population (2010 Census)[3] | |
| • Total | 4,263 |
| • Density | 508.9/sq mi (196.5/km2) |
| Time zone | Eastern (EST) (UTC-5) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
| ZIP code | 07005 |
| Area code(s) | 973 |
| FIPS code | 34-06640[4][5] |
| GNIS feature ID | 0882205[6] |
| Website | http://www.boontontownship.com |
Boonton Township is a Township in Morris County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township population was 4,263.[3]
Boonton Township was incorporated by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 11, 1867, from portions of Pequannock Township. The borough of Mountain Lakes was formed from portions of the township on March 3, 1924.[7]
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According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 8.6 square miles (22 km2), of which, 8.4 square miles (22 km2) of it is land and 0.2 square miles (0.52 km2) of it (1.86%) is water.
| Historical populations | |||
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| Census | Pop. | %± | |
| 1930 | 623 |
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| 1940 | 817 | 31.1% | |
| 1950 | 1,155 | 41.4% | |
| 1960 | 1,998 | 73.0% | |
| 1970 | 3,070 | 53.7% | |
| 1980 | 3,273 | 6.6% | |
| 1990 | 3,566 | 9.0% | |
| 2000 | 4,287 | 20.2% | |
| 2010 | 4,263 | −0.6% | |
| Population 1930 - 1990.[3][8] | |||
As of the census[4] of 2000, there were 4,287 people, 1,476 households, and 1,157 families residing in the township. The population density was 508.9 people per square mile (196.6/km²). There were 1,510 housing units at an average density of 179.2 per square mile (69.2/km²). The racial makeup of the township was 93.00% White, 1.19% African American, 0.05% Native American, 4.08% Asian, 0.63% from other races, and 1.05% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.15% of the population.
There were 1,476 households out of which 36.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 70.1% were married couples living together, 5.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 21.6% were non-families. 17.5% of all households were made up of individuals and 7.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.78 and the average family size was 3.18.
In the township the population was spread out with 24.9% under the age of 18, 4.9% from 18 to 24, 27.0% from 25 to 44, 28.4% from 45 to 64, and 14.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 42 years. For every 100 females there were 98.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 93.3 males.
The median income for a household in the township was $91,753, and the median income for a family was $102,944. Males had a median income of $77,133 versus $46,302 for females. The per capita income for the township was $45,014. About 0.9% of families and 1.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 0.5% of those under age 18 and 2.2% of those age 65 or over.
Boonton Township is governed under the Township form of New Jersey municipal government. The government consists of five-member Township Committee consisting of five members elected at-large in partisan elections to serve three-year terms on a staggered basis, with one or two seats coming up for election each year. The Mayor and Deputy Mayor are selected by the Township Committee from among its members.[1][9]
As of 2011[update], members of the Boonton Township Committee are Chairperson Michele Rankin, Paul Allieri, Thomas Donadio, William Klingener and Robert Rizzo.[10]
Boonton Township is in the 11th Congressional district and is part of New Jersey's 25th state legislative district.[11] The legislative district was kept unchanged by the New Jersey Apportionment Commission based on the results of the 2010 Census.[3]
New Jersey's Eleventh Congressional District is represented by Rodney Frelinghuysen (R, Harding Township). New Jersey is represented in the United States Senate by Frank Lautenberg (D, Cliffside Park) and Bob Menendez (D, Hoboken).
25th Legislative District of the New Jersey Legislature, which is represented in the New Jersey Senate by Anthony Bucco (R, Boonton) and in the New Jersey General Assembly by Michael Patrick Carroll (R, Morris Plains) and Tony Bucco (R, Boonton).[12] The Governor of New Jersey is Chris Christie (R, Mendham).[13] The Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey is Kim Guadagno (R, Monmouth Beach).[14]
Morris County is governed by a seven-member Board of Chosen Freeholders, who are elected at-large to three-year terms of office on a staggered basis, with two or three seats coming up for election each year.[15] As of 2011, Morris County's Freeholders are Freeholder Director William J. Chegwidden (Wharton),[16] Deputy Freeholder Director Douglas R. Cabana (Boonton Township),[17] Gene F. Feyl (Denville),[18] Ann F. Grassi (Parsippany-Troy Hills),[19] Thomas J. Mastrangelo (Montville),[20] John J. Murphy (Morris Township)[21] and Margaret Nordstrom (Washington Township).[22][23]
On the national and state levels, Boonton Township leans strongly toward the Republican Party. In the 2008 Presidential Election, Republican John McCain received 59% of the vote, defeating Democrat Barack Obama, who received around 39%. In the 2009 Gubernatorial Election, Republican Chris Christie received 65% of the vote, defeating Democrat Jon Corzine, who received around 28%.
The Boonton Township School District serves students in public school for kindergarten through eighth grade. Rockaway Valley School had an enrollment of 514 students as of the 2008-09 school year.[24]
For grades 9-12, public school students attend Mountain Lakes High School, in Mountain Lakes, as part of a sending/receiving relationship agreement in place with the Mountain Lakes Schools.[25][26]
Boonton Township's recorded history began about 1710 when William Saget Penn, the Quaker land speculator, located in the northern valley his Lot No. 48, which contained by actual survey 1,430 prime field and woodland acres. James Bollen, whose bordering "plantation" stretching south toward the Tourne was described as "situate on the fork of Rockaway with an Indian plantation in it," mapped his 1,507 acres (6 km²) in 1715. In 1765 David Ogden purchased from Burnet and Skinner the Great Boonton Tract of. When the Township of Boonton was created in 1867 by "An Act to Divide the Township of Pequannoc in the County of Morris" most of Penn's Lot No. 48 and parts of the Bollen and Great Boonton Tracts fell within Boonton's boundary. Boonton Township's official birthday is April 11, 1867.
The first settler of proper record was Frederick DeMouth of French Huguenot extraction. By 1758, his Rockaway Valley plantation within the Penn Lot comprised 672 acres (2.7 km²), and it was on this land that the large Stickle, Bott and Kincaid farms were to prosper in the far distant future. Frederick Miller of German Palatine birth bought extensive land (later day Dixon acres) within the Bollen piece at 13 shillings per acre. These founding families were closely followed by the Hoplers, Van Winkles, Cooks, Scotts, Peers, Stickles and Kanouses.
Roads were early in the making. McCaffrey Lane, the oldest recorded thoroughfare in the area, was built in 1767 by Samuel Ogden of the Great Boonton Tract. In 1822 North Main Street was "cut" along the proposed Morris Canal route. In 1824, the Morris Canal and Banking Company was chartered with John Scott of Powerville, an important commissioner. Lock Numbers 9, 10 and 11 were constructed in newly named Powerville. The Powerville Hotel, still standing, was built near Lock Number 11 to accommodate both canal and transient trade. It later gained fame as a pre-American Civil War Underground Railroad station.[27]