North Plainfield, New Jersey
North Plainfield, New Jersey Map of North Plainfield in Somerset County.
Inset: Location of Somerset County on New Jersey.
Map of North Plainfield in Somerset County.
Inset: Location of Somerset County on New Jersey.
Enumeration Bureau map of North Plainfield, New Jersey Enumeration Bureau map of North Plainfield, New Jersey State New Jersey North Plainfield is a borough in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States.
North Plainfield Township was created from portions of Warren Township by an act of the New Jersey Legislature passed on April 2, 1872.
The borough of North Plainfield became an autonomous municipality on June 9, 1885. The name derives from Plainfield, which derived its name from a small-town estate or from its scenic location. In 1902, the New Jersey Legislature allowed measures that would have allowed the borough to turn into part of Union County (a measure repealed in 1903) and to allow for a consolidation of North Plainfield with the City of Plainfield subject to the approval of a popular vote by voters in both municipalities. As of the 2000 Census, 5.39% of North Plainfield's inhabitants identified themselves as being of Ecuadorian ancestry, which was the fourth highest of any municipality in New Jersey and the eighth highest percentage of Ecuadorian citizens in any place in the United States with 1,000 or more inhabitants identifying their ancestry. The Borough of North Plainfield is governed inside the Faulkner Act under the Mayor-Council fitness of municipal government (Plan E), implemented based on the recommendations of a Charter Study Commission as of January 1, 1977. This form provides for a strong-mayor type of government, in which the mayor has executive functions and the legislative branch is the Borough Council.
North Plainfield is positioned in the 7th Congressional District and is part of New Jersey's 22nd 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).
Kennedy (D, Rahway). The Governor of New Jersey is Chris Christie (R, Mendham Township). The Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey is Kim Guadagno (R, Monmouth Beach). The North Plainfield School District, serves enhance school students from pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade.
As of the 2011-12 school year, the district's five schools had an enrollment of 3,182 students and 279.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student teacher ratio of 11.41:1. Schools in the precinct (with 2011-12 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are East End Elementary School (grades Pre - K-4; 376 students), Stony Brook Elementary School (K-4; 256), West End Elementary School (K-4; 561), Somerset Intermediate School (5&6; 491) and North Plainfield Middle School / North Plainfield High School (7-12; 1,503 in the two facilities combined). As of May 2010, the borough has a total of 49.77 miles (80.10 km) of roads, of which 39.28 miles (63.22 km) were maintained by the municipality, 7.22 miles (11.62 km) by the county and 3.27 miles (5.26 km) by the New Jersey Department of Transportation. See also: Category:People from North Plainfield, New Jersey.
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This new township encompassed the suburbs of North Plainfield, Watchung and Green Brook.
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East End Elementary School, North Plainfield School District.
Stony Brook Elementary School, North Plainfield School District.
West End Elementary School, North Plainfield School District.
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"A native of Plainfield, N.J., he attended North Plainfield High, where he lettered three years in both football and baseball." He was born in North Plainfield, New Jersey, on March 20, 1910, and has lived in the South End neighborhood of Boston since he was six months old." "A native of North Plainfield, New Jersey, Di - Maggio jubilates his birthday September 4 and resides in Los Angeles." "Rodriguez-Gerada, 42, is a Cuban-born American who interval up in North Plainfield, New Jersey, near New York, and now lives in Barcelona." Wikimedia Commons has media related to North Plainfield, New Jersey.
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