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Map of Branchburg Township in Somerset County.
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Enumeration Bureau map of Branchburg Township, New Jersey Enumeration Bureau map of Branchburg Township, New Jersey Branchburg is a township in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States.
As of the 2010 United States Census, the township's populace was 14,459, reflecting a diminish of 107 ( 0.7%) from the 14,566 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 3,678 (+33.8%) from the 10,888 counted in the 1990 Census. While the region of today's Branchburg has a history antedating the American Revolutionary War, the township itself was incorporated by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 5, 1845, from portions of Bridgewater Township. The township is titled for its locale at a point where chapters of the Raritan River merge. By 1686 most of the territory was purchased from the Lenape by the Lords Proprietors of East Jersey, who sold the territory in small parcels to various settlers, mostly of Dutch or English extraction. With the 1688 redrawing of the boundary between East and West Jersey, the Branchburg region was split between Essex County to the north and the newly formed Somerset County to the south.
The inhabitants of the part of Bridgewater west of the Raritan River petitioned the New Jersey Legislature for incorporation as a separate township, which was granted by an act dated April 5, 1845. The first town meeting was held April 14, 1845, in White Oak Tavern, a stagecoach stop and small-town meeting place along the Old York Road. The township is bordered on the west by Readington Township in Hunterdon County; on the north by Bedminster Township and on the south by Bridgewater Township and Hillsborough Township. Branchburg is in the Raritan Valley, a line of metros/cities in Central New Jersey.
It was the first building in the state of New Jersey to meet New Jersey's Executive Order 54 and the first net zero electric commercial building in the United States. Branchburg Township operates under the Township form of municipal government.
The five-member Township Committee is propel directly by the voters at-large in partisan elections to serve three-year terms of office on a staggered basis, with either one or two seats coming up for election each year as part of the November general election in a three-year cycle. The township has been governed by a five-member Township Council since the 1971 elections, when the populace surpassed 4,000 in the 1970 United States Census, mandating an expansion from the three-member committee in place until then. A mayor and deputy mayor are chose from among the council from among its members at an annual reorganization meeting.
Branchburg Township is positioned in the 7th Congressional District and is part of New Jersey's 16th state legislative district. New Jersey's Seventh Congressional District is represented by Leonard Lance (R, Clinton Township). New Jersey is represented in the United States Senate by Cory Booker (D, Newark, term ends 2021) and Bob Menendez (D, Paramus, 2019).
The Governor of New Jersey is Chris Christie (R, Mendham Township). The Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey is Kim Guadagno (R, Monmouth Beach). The Branchburg Township School District serves enhance school students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade.
As of the 2014-15 school year, the precinct and its three schools had an enrollment of 2,384 students and 156.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student teacher ratio of 15.2:1. Schools in the precinct (with 2014-15 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are Whiton Elementary School (648 students; in grades Pre - K-3) Stony Brook School (350; 4 5) and Branchburg Central Middle School (566; 6 8). As of May 2010, the township had a total of 113.08 miles (181.98 km) of roadways, of which 87.96 miles (141.56 km) were maintained by the municipality, 18.74 miles (30.16 km) by Somerset County and 6.38 miles (10.27 km) by the New Jersey Department of Transportation. Branchburg Township is centrally positioned with access to primary roadways and highways.
NJ Transit train service between Branchburg and New York City is available on the Raritan Valley Line at the North Branch station (located on Station Road), which offers limited daily service and no weekend trains. The Raritan Valley Line has weekly service from North Branch Station to Newark Penn Station, where connections can be made to Pennsylvania Station in Midtown Manhattan. Transport of New Jersey bus service between New York City and Allentown, Pennsylvania is available on a daily basis. The Little Red Schoolhouse, positioned on South Branch Road, is a one-room schoolhouse assembled in 1873, the last one-room school home in use in the county. Its purpose was to educate kids in grades 1 8 from Branchburg and Hillsborough townships.
See also: Category:People from Branchburg, New Jersey.
Christopher Bateman (born 1957), member of the New Jersey Senate representing the 16th Legislative District, who served as mayor of Branchburg in 1986. Raymond Bateman (1927-2016), politician, who represented Somerset County in the New Jersey Senate in the 1960s and 1970s and was the Republican candidate for Governor of New Jersey in 1977. Jeffrey Chiesa (born 1965), New Jersey Attorney General who was titled to the United States Senate to fill Frank Lautenberg's vacant seat on an interim basis from June 2013 until the October 2013 special election, when Cory Booker took office. Denise Coyle (born 1953), member of the New Jersey General Assembly from 2008 to 2012 who served as mayor of Branchburg in 1993. a b c d e 2010 Enumeration Gazetteer Files: New Jersey County Subdivisions, United States Enumeration Bureau.
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"With a score of 7-5 over Jacksonville, Fla., the Branchburg Bulldogs under-14-year-old baseball team became the first New Jersey team to win the Babe Ruth World Series since 1989....
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