Clinton, New Jersey See also: Clinton Township, New Jersey Clinton, New Jersey Inset: Location of Hunterdon County highlighted in the State of New Jersey.
Inset: Location of Hunterdon County highlighted in the State of New Jersey.
A Enumeration Bureau map of Clinton, New Jersey.
A Enumeration Bureau map of Clinton, New Jersey.
State New Jersey Clinton is a town in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, United States, positioned on the South Branch of the Raritan River.
When the Clinton postal service was established in 1829, it was titled for De - Witt Clinton, Governor of New York and the major impetus behind the then-newly instead of Erie Canal. Clinton was incorporated as a town by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 5, 1865, inside portions of Clinton, Franklin and Union Townships.
The town borders Clinton Township, Franklin Township, and Union Township.
Clinton is considered an exurb of New York City, as Hunterdon County lies on the fringe of the New York City Metropolitan Area, which is mainly non-urban with scattered housing developments and old farm homes.
Clinton is part of the Primary Metropolitan Travel Destination of Middlesex, Somerset and Hunterdon counties in New Jersey. It serves as a "bedroom community" for many commuters working in and around Northern New Jersey and New York City, often younger inhabitants who have supplanted long-time inhabitants of Clinton. Climate data for Clinton, New Jersey Clinton falls under the 'Northern New Jersey' climate zone.
According to the Office of the New Jersey State Climatologist at Rutgers University, the Northern climate zone covers about one-quarter of New Jersey and consists mainly of elevated highlands and valleys which are part of the Appalachian Uplands.
Being in the northernmost portion of the state, and with small mountain peaks up to 1,800 feet (550 m) in elevation, the Northern Zone normally exhibits a colder temperature regime than other climate regions of the State of New Jersey.
Landsdown Trail, a spur line constructed for the Lehigh Valley Railroad in 1881 that is now a graded rail trail starting about 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Clinton on Landsdown Road that enters Clinton town center near the lumber yard. As of 2016, the mayor of Clinton Town is Democrat Janice Kovach, whose term of office ends on December 31, 2019. Members of the Clinton Town Council are Ken Carberry (R, 2017), Sherry Dineen (R, 2018), Marty Pendergast (R, 2017), Alfred D.
Clinton Fire Department (CFD) is positioned on the corner of New Street / Old Route 22 in Clinton.
The department runs mutual aid calls with Annandale Hose Company, High Bridge Fire Department, Quakertown Fire Company, Lebanon Fire Company and Pattenburg Fire Company and other fire departments in Hunterdon Country, which have turn into an invaluable resource for large incidents. The Division of Fire is a municipal fire department and is responsible for all fire related incidents in the Township.
Clinton Town is positioned in the 7th Congressional District and is part of New Jersey's 23rd 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).
Doherty (R, Washington Township, Warren County) and in the General Assembly by John Di - Maio (R, Hackettstown) and Erik Peterson (R, Franklin Township, Hunterdon County). The Governor of New Jersey is Chris Christie (R, Mendham Township). The Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey is Kim Guadagno (R, Monmouth Beach). At an annual reorganization meeting held each January, the freeholders select one member to serve as the board's Director and another to serve as Deputy Director. As of 2015, Hunterdon County's Freeholders are Freeholder Director John King (R; Raritan Township, 2015), Freeholder Deputy Director Suzanne Lagay (R; Holland Township, 2016), J.
Clinton-Glen Gardner School District is school precinct based in the Town of Clinton, that serves students from Clinton Town and Glen Gardner Borough in pre-kindergarten through eighth undertaking at Clinton Public School.
Other students attend the school on a tuition basis. Formerly known as the Town of Clinton School District, the district's board of education voted in November 2009 to revise the name to Clinton-Glen Gardner School District to reflect the consolidation . As of the 2014-15 school year, the precinct and its one school had an enrollment of 711 students and 41.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student teacher ratio of 17.0:1. Public school students in ninth through twelfth grades attend North Hunterdon High School in Annandale together with students from Bethlehem Township, Clinton Township, Franklin Township, Lebanon Borough and Union Township. As of the 2014-15 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 1,747 students and 134.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student teacher ratio of 13.0:1. The school is part of the North Hunterdon-Voorhees Regional High School District, which also includes students from Califon, Glen Gardner, Hampton, High Bridge, Lebanon Township and Tewksbury Township, who attend Voorhees High School in Lebanon Township. As of July 2015, the town had a total of 12.21 miles (19.65 km) of roadways, of which 8.72 miles (14.03 km) were maintained by the municipality and 3.49 miles (5.62 km) by the New Jersey Department of Transportation. Convenient access to Interstate 78 provides Clinton with a convenient route to and from New York City and the Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia can also be easily accessed from Clinton via New Jersey Route 31 to Interstate 95 South.
Funding for operation of the Hunterdon County LINK System is provided by Hunterdon County, NJ Transit and the Federal Transit Administration. The town was featured on The Daily Show, which interviewed a small-town resident who was campaigning to have the town's name changed to Reagan after the Republican President of the United States Ronald Reagan, amid the Clinton Administration. See also: Category:People from Clinton, New Jersey.
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South Branch Raritan river running through Clinton, New Jersey.
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"Previously titled the Town of Clinton Board of Education and Town of Clinton School District, the passing of the by-law changed the names to be The Clinton-Glen Gardner Board of Education and The Clinton-Glen Gardner School District....
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"North Hunterdon High School educates students from: Bethlehem Township, Clinton Town, Clinton Township, Franklin Township, Lebanon Borough, Union Township; Voorhees High School educates students from: Califon, Glen Gardner, Hampton, High Bridge, Lebanon Township, Tewksbury Township" Information Regarding Choice of District School, North Hunterdon-Voorhees Regional High School District.
"In the past, parents and students of the North Hunterdon High School sending districts were able to select either North Hunterdon High School or Voorhees High School as their school of choice....
As our student populace continued to expanded and our two high schools reached, and exceeded, 90% capacity, the option of choosing Voorhees was eliminated in the 2005-2006 school year for the North Hunterdon sending districts (Bethlehem Township, Clinton Township, Franklin Township, Lebanon Borough and Union Township Clinton Town students still have choice as they are classmates at Clinton Public School with Glen Gardner students, who attend Voorhees)." About the District North Hunterdoon-Voorhees Regional High School District.
"North Hunterdon High School educates students from: Bethlehem Township, Clinton Town, Clinton Township, Franklin Township, Lebanon Borough, Union Township; Voorhees High School educates students from: Califon, Glen Gardner, Hampton, High Bridge, Lebanon Township, Tewksbury Township" School data for North Hunterdon High School, National Center for Education Statistics.
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"North Hunterdon High School educates students from: Bethlehem Township, Clinton Town, Clinton Township, Franklin Township, Lebanon Borough, Union Township; Voorhees High School educates students from: Califon, Glen Gardner, Hampton, High Bridge, Lebanon Township, Tewksbury Township" Hunterdon County Mileage by Municipality and Jurisdiction, New Jersey Department of Transportation, July 2015.
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