Hillsborough Township, New Jersey Hillsborough Township, New Jersey Map highlighting Hillsborough Township's locale within Somerset County.
Inset: Location of Somerset County in New Jersey.
Map highlighting Hillsborough Township's locale within Somerset County.
Inset: Location of Somerset County in New Jersey.
Enumeration Bureau map of Hillsborough Township, New Jersey Enumeration Bureau map of Hillsborough Township, New Jersey State New Jersey Hillsborough Township is a township in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States.
As of the 2010 United States Census, the township's populace was 38,303, reflecting an increase of 1,669 (+4.6%) from the 36,634 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 7,826 (+27.2%) from the 28,808 counted in the 1990 Census. It was incorporated by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 21, 1798, as one of New Jersey's initial group of 104 townships.
Portions of the township were taken to form the boroughs of Millstone (May 14, 1894) and Manville (April 1, 1929). The township's name may have come from an earlier name of "Hillsbury", though it may have been titled for Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire who was the Earl of Hillsborough. A revised charter was issued on September 12, 1771. The records of Hillsborough Township are complete from their inception in 1746 and there are ten volumes, each some a several hundred pages, kept in the Special Collections Department of the Rutgers University Library along with the Charter.
Hillsborough Township quickly took its place in history as the path General George Washington and his troops traveled from the Battle of Princeton to winter quarters in Morristown.
In Money magazine's 2013 Best Places to Live rankings, Hillsborough was ranked 16th in the nation, the third-highest among the three places in New Jersey encompassed in the top 50 list. In the magazine's 2007 rankings, the township was ranked as the 23rd best place to live in the nation. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the township had a total region of 55.001 square miles (142.453 km2), including 54.536 square miles (141.248 km2) of territory and 0.465 square miles (1.204 km2) of water (0.85%). The township borders Branchburg Township, Bridgewater Township, Franklin Township, Manville, Millstone, Montgomery Township, Raritan and Somerville in Somerset County; and East Amwell Township, Raritan Township and Readington Township in Hunterdon County. Climate data for Hillsborough Township, New Jersey As of the 2010 United States Census, there were 38,303 citizens , 13,573 homeholds, and 10,424 families residing in the township.
Hillsborough Township is governed under the Township Commission form of 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 mayor and deputy mayor are chosen by the Township Committee from among its members at an annual reorganization meeting, each serving a one-year term.
As of 2016, members of the Hillsborough Township Committee are Mayor Frank Del - Core (R, term on committee and as mayor ends December 31, 2016), Deputy Mayor Carl Suraci (R, term on committee ends 2018; term as deputy mayor ends 2016), Greg Burchette (R, 2018), Gloria Mc - Cauley (R, 2017) and Douglas Tomson (R, 2017). Based on the results of a Charter Study Commission, a recommendation was listed on the November 2007 general election ballot proposing that the township adopt a Mayor-Council form of government under the Faulkner Act. At the election, 58% of those voting chose to reject the proposed change, leaving Hillsborough's traditional township form of government unchanged. Hillsborough 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). Palmer (R, Bernardsville, 2017), Patrick Scaglione (R, Bridgewater Township, 2018), Mark Caliguire (R, Skillman in Montgomery Township, 2018), and Brian D.
As of March 23, 2011, there were a total of 24,841 registered voters in Hillsborough Township, of which 5,575 (22.4% vs.
The Hillsborough Township School District serves students in kindergarten through twelfth grade.
Students from Millstone attend the district's schools as part of a sending/receiving relationship. As of the 2011-12 school year, the district's nine schools had an enrollment of 7,316 students and 611.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student teacher ratio of 11.96:1. Schools in the precinct (with 2011-12 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are six elementary schools for students in Kindergarten to fourth undertaking Amsterdam Elementary School (502 students), Hillsborough Elementary School (524), Sunnymead Elementary School (389), Triangle Elementary School (419), Woodfern Elementary School (383) and Woods Road Elementary School (442) Auten Road Intermediate School (1,101 students; grades 5-6), Hillsborough Middle School (1,135; 7-8) and Hillsborough High School (2,421; 9-12). As of May 2010, the township had a total of 211.92 miles (341.05 km) of roadways, of which 185.42 miles (298.40 km) were maintained by the municipality, 19.79 miles (31.85 km) by Somerset County and 6.71 miles (10.80 km) by the New Jersey Department of Transportation. Part of the proposed routing of Interstate 95 through central New Jersey encompassed Hillsborough; this universal was ultimately canceled in the 1980s. NJ Transit has proposed a new West Trenton Line that would stretch for 27 miles (43 km) from the West Trenton station in Ewing Township to a connection with the Raritan Valley Line at Bridgewater Township, and from there to Newark Penn Station in Newark.
See also: Category:People from Hillsborough Township, New Jersey.
Biondi (1942 2011), politician who served in the New Jersey General Assembly and was Mayor of Hillsborough from 1986 to 1993. Jack Ciattarelli (born 1961), politician, member of the New Jersey General Assembly and former Somerset County Freeholder. a b c d e f 2010 Enumeration Gazetteer Files: New Jersey County Subdivisions, United States Enumeration Bureau.
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"Hillsborough's roads got their names from early records, Hillsborough was also known as Hillsbury and although the records are obscure, some believe the Township was titled for Lord Hillsborough." Belle Mead GSA Depot, Hillsborough Township.
"For years here amid the gentle hills of the Raritan River valley in suburban New Jersey, a 2,740-acre estate that once provided the setting for Doris Duke's ornamental plant nurseries has largely been kept private.Now, after years of debate about how to handle the massive plot formerly owned by one of the world's richest women, the bucolic grounds known as Duke Farms are set to open to the enhance May 19 and turn into one of the biggest privately owned enhance spaces in the U.S., estate officials said." Our Towns, Hillsborough Township.
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"The Christie Administration opened a portion of the Route 206 Bypass between Amwell Road and Hillsborough Road in Hillsborough, Somerset County.
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Former Giant Brad Benson's motor in overdrive", New York Daily News, December 20, 2008.
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"Datta presently lives in Hillsborough Township, New Jersey, near New York City, where he works as a journalist with Desi Talk and as the Arts & Humanities Editor for News India Times." "Born at Hillsborough, Somerset County, New Jersey; son of Mary Bunn and Lucas Hoagland." 'They always do things right in New Jersey,' said center Shaun O'Hara, a Rutgers grad who interval up in Hillsborough and now lives in Rutherford." Hillsborough Township School District Hillsborough Township School District's 2015 16 School Report Card from the New Jersey Department of Education School Data for the Hillsborough Township School District, National Center for Education Statistics Municipalities and communities of Somerset County, New Jersey, United States
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