Deptford Township, New Jersey Deptford Township, New Jersey Deptford Township highlighted in Gloucester County.

Inset map: Gloucester County highlighted in the State of New Jersey.

Deptford Township highlighted in Gloucester County.

Inset map: Gloucester County highlighted in the State of New Jersey.

Enumeration Bureau map of Deptford Township, New Jersey Enumeration Bureau map of Deptford Township, New Jersey Deptford Township is a township in Gloucester County, New Jersey, in the United States.

It was incorporated as a township by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 21, 1798.

Over the centuries, portions of the township were taken to problematic Washington Township (February 17, 1836), Woodbury Borough (March 27, 1854; now Woodbury City), West Deptford Township (March 1, 1871), Wenonah (March 10, 1883), Westville (April 7, 1914) and Woodbury Heights (April 6, 1915). The township borders Mantua Township, Washington Township, Wenonah, West Deptford Township, Westville, Woodbury and Woodbury Heights.

Deptford Township also borders Bellmawr, Runnemede, and Gloucester Township, all in Camden County.

The Deptford Mall is the seventh-largest shopping mall in New Jersey and the biggest in the South Jersey region of the state, with a Gross leasable region of 1,069,657 square feet (99,374.4 m2). Macerich purchased the mall in 2007 for $241 million. Tall Pines State Preserve is a 111-acre (45 ha) nature preserve that opened in November 2015 as Gloucester County's first state park and is positioned along the border of Deptford Township and Mantua Township.

Originally a forest that was turned into an asparagus field and then a golf course, the territory was preserved through the accomplishments of the South Jersey Land and Water Trust, the Friends of Tall Pines, Gloucester County Nature Club, and the New Jersey Green Acres Program. As of 2016, the members of the Deptford Township Council are Mayor Paul Medany (D, term on committee ends December 31, 2019; term as mayor ends 2017), Deputy Mayor Tom Hufnell (D, term on committee ends 2019; term as deputy mayor ends 2017), Kenneth Barnshaw (D, 2017), Bill Lamb (D, 2017), Wayne Love (D, 2017), Phillip Schocklin (D, 2017) and Joe Scott (D, 2019). Deptford Township is positioned in the 1st Congressional District and is part of New Jersey's 5th state legislative district. New Jersey's First Congressional District is represented by Donald Norcross (D, Camden). New Jersey is represented in the United States Senate by Cory Booker (D, Newark, term ends 2021) and Bob Menendez (D, Paramus, 2019).

Di - Marco (D, Deptford Township; 2016), Heather Simmons (D, Glassboro; 2017) and Jim Jefferson (D, Woodbury; 2017). Constitutional officers propel countywide are County Clerk James N.

As of the 2011 12 school year, the district's nine schools had an enrollment of 4,365 students and 334.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student teacher ratio of 13.05:1. Schools in the precinct (with 2011 12 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are Central Early Childhood Center (584 students; grades Pre - K-1), Pine Acres Early Childhood Center (271; Pre - K-1), Good Intent School (399; 2-6), Lake Tract School (493; 2-6), Oak Valley School (364; 2-6), Shady Lane School (399; 2-6), Monongahela Middle School (655; 7&8), Deptford Township High School (1,030; 9-12) and New Sharon School (22; ungraded) serves students ages 3 21 with developmental or cognitive disabilities. Rowan College at Gloucester County is positioned in Deptford, and opened there in 1968 as Gloucester County College with classes held at Monongahela Junior High School and Deptford High School. Deptford Township is crisscrossed by primary transportation routes in and near the township, including Interstate 295, Route 41, Route 42, Route 45, Route 47, Route 55, as well as County Route 534, County Route 544, County Route 551 and County Route 553.

As of May 2010, the township had a total of 150.03 miles (241.45 km) of roadways, of which 99.01 miles (159.34 km) were maintained by the municipality, 28.87 miles (46.46 km) by Gloucester County and 18.75 miles (30.18 km) by the New Jersey Department of Transportation and 3.40 miles (5.47 km) by the New Jersey Turnpike Authority. See also: Category:People from Deptford Township, New Jersey.

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