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Inset: Location of Sussex County highlighted in the State of New Jersey.
Map of Newton in Sussex County.
Inset: Location of Sussex County highlighted in the State of New Jersey.
Enumeration Bureau map of Newton, New Jersey Enumeration Bureau map of Newton, New Jersey State New Jersey Newton, officially the Town of Newton, is an incorporated municipality positioned in Sussex County, New Jersey, United States.
It is situated approximately 60 miles (97 km) by road northwest of New York City. It is one of fifteen municipalities in the state organized as a town, and the municipal government operates under a council-manager structure provided by the Faulkner Act, or Optional Municipal Charter Law.
As the locale of the county's administrative offices and court system, Newton is the governmental center of county of Sussex County. Newton was incorporated by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 11, 1864, from portions of Newton Township, which was also partitioned to problematic Andover Township and Hampton Township, and was then dissolved.
See also: Newton Township, Sussex County, New Jersey The Newtown Precinct, a large township, was created in 1751, and Sussex County was created from Morris two years later on June 8, 1753. The township would be titled Newtown after the colonial village of Newtown in Queens, New York from where the Pettit family originated (the six Pettit brothers, all prominent landowners and influential figures in early small-town government, settled in northwestern New Jersey in the 1740s) or from its status as a "new town". In 1762, Jonathan Hampton, of Elizabethtown, surveyed the locale for a county courthouse and town green at the intersection of a military supply road he assembled amid the French and Indian War and a primary north-south artery called the King's Highway (present-day New Jersey Route 94).
Newton Township would cede territory to problematic new townships on a several occasions in the eighteenth and nineteenth-centuries, until a final division dissolved the township on April 11, 1864, through a legislative act of New Jersey Legislature that created the village of Newton as an incorporated town and two non-urban townships Hampton and Andover. This physiographic province, one of five in New Jersey, is situated in approximately two-thirds of the county's region (the county's and central sections) dominated by Kittatinny Mountain and the Kittatinny Valley.
Because of its locale in the higher elevations of northwestern New Jersey's Appalachian mountain peaks, Newton, as well as the rest of Sussex County, has a cooler humid continental climate or microthermal climate (Koppen climate classification Dfb) which indicates patterns of momentous rain in all seasons and at least four months where the average temperature rises above 10 C (50 F) This differs from the rest of the state which is generally a humid mesothermal climate, in which temperatures range between -3 C (27 F) and 18 C (64 F) amid the year's coldest month. Sussex County is part of USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 6. During winter and early spring, New Jersey in some years is subject to "nor'easters" momentous storm systems that have proven capable of causing blizzards or flooding throughout the northeastern United States.
The Kittatinny Valley to the north of Newton, part of the Great Appalachian Valley, experiences a snowbelt phenomenon and has been categorized as a microclimate region known as the "Sussex County Snow Belt." Newton is home to the Sussex County Historical Society's Hill Memorial Museum, the earliest continuously operating exhibition building in the state.
Of New Jersey's 565 municipalities, Newton is one of 15 municipalities in the state organized as a town.
The administrative offices for the County of Sussex are positioned in the center of Newton at One Spring Street.
Since 1762, Newton has been the governmental center of county of Sussex County.
The town is positioned in the 5th Congressional District and is part of New Jersey's 24th state legislative district. New Jersey's Fifth Congressional District is represented by Josh Gottheimer (D, Wyckoff). New Jersey is represented in the United States Senate by Cory Booker (D, Newark, term ends 2021) and Bob Menendez (D, Paramus, 2019).
Crabb (R, Franklin, 2014), George Graham (R, Stanhope, 2016) and Gail Phoebus (R, Andover Township, 2015). Graham was chosen in April 2013 to fill the seat vacated by Parker Space, who had been chosen to fill a vacancy in the New Jersey General Assembly. Constitutional officers propel on a countywide basis are County Clerk Jeff Parrott (R, 2016), Sheriff Michael F.
Newton is also home to the Sussex County Sheriff's Office. A barracks for the New Jersey State Police is positioned in Augusta, New Jersey a several miles north of Newton.
As of the 2011-12 school year, the district's three schools had an enrollment of 1,532 students and 127.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student teacher ratio of 12.06:1. Schools in the precinct (with 2010-11 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are Merriam Avenue School (499 students; grades K-5), Halsted Street Middle School (238; 6-8) and Newton High School (800; 9-12). The district's enrollment includes high school students from Andover Borough, Andover Township and Green Township, who attend the high school as part of sending/receiving relationships with their respective home districts. Formerly the ground of Don Bosco College, a Roman Catholic seminary, the county government purchased the school's Newton property in 1989 for the use of Sussex County Community College, established in 1981.
See also: New Jersey County Colleges Sussex County Community College (commonly referred to as SCCC) is an accredited, co-educational, two-year, public, improve college positioned on a 167-acre (68 ha) ground in Newton.
It became fully accredited in 1993 by the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools. SCCC offers 40 associate degree and 16 post-secondary experienced and community science certificate programs available both at traditional classes at its campus, through hybrid and online classes, and through distance learning. Many students who attend SCCC transfer to pursue the culmination of their undergraduate college education at a four-year college or university. The college also offers programs for advanced high school students, improve education courses, and programs in cooperation with the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development. The school had an enrollment of 3,012 students of which half attended full-time and half attended part-time. Route 206 (known inside Newton as Woodside Avenue, Main Street, and Water Street), New Jersey Route 94 (known inside Newton as High Street and Water Street), and County Route 519 (known inside Newton as West End Avenue and Mill Street) and County Route 616 (known inside Newton as Spring Street and Sparta Avenue). As of May 2010, the town had a total of 28.75 miles (46.27 km) of roadways, of which 21.18 miles (34.09 km) were maintained by the municipality, 4.47 miles (7.19 km) by Sussex County and 3.10 miles (4.99 km) by the New Jersey Department of Transportation. According to their website, "Newton Memorial Hospital is a short-term, fully accredited, 146-bed acute care, not-for-profit hospital serving more than 250,000 citizens in Warren and Sussex counties in New Jersey, Pike County in Pennsylvania and southern Orange County in New York." Newton Memorial Hospital was bought by Atlantic Health System and changed its name to Newton Medical Center in 2011. Newton is home to the editorial offices of The New Jersey Herald, the state's earliest newspaper, established in 1829.
WMBC-TV is licensed to Newton, but its studios are in West Caldwell, New Jersey and its transmitter is near Lake Hopatcong.
See also: Category:People from Newton, New Jersey.
Griggs (1849 1927), 27th Governor of New Jersey who later served as United States Attorney General. Robert Hamilton (1809 1878), represented New Jersey's 4th congressional precinct in the United States House of Representatives from 1873-1877. Price (1816 1894), represented New Jersey's 5th congressional precinct in the United States House of Representatives from 1851 1853, and served as the 17th Governor of New Jersey, from 1854 to 1857. Rogers (1828 1900), represented New Jersey's 4th congressional precinct in the United States House of Representatives from 1863-1867. Created in 1739, Morris County encompassed the region of present-day Morris County, Sussex County (created 1753), and Warren County (created from Sussex in 1824) in northwestern New Jersey.
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