Tinton Falls, New Jersey Tinton Falls, New Jersey Inset: Location of Monmouth County highlighted in the State of New Jersey.
Inset: Location of Monmouth County highlighted in the State of New Jersey.
Enumeration Bureau map of Tinton Falls, New Jersey Enumeration Bureau map of Tinton Falls, New Jersey Tinton Falls is a borough in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States.
The borough was formed as New Shrewsbury by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on August 15, 1950, based on the results of a popular vote held on July 18, 1950, after breaking away from Shrewsbury Township. It was retitled "Tinton Falls" in 1975, to avoid postal errors. The name came from Lewis Morris's plantation, Tinton Manor, which working no-charge white workers and slaves. The borough is home to the highest waterfall on New Jersey's coastal plain.
By 1714, the ironworks had turn into less profitable, but mention of a Tinton Falls ironworks can be found as late as 1844. Morris brought in dozens of African slaves to mine the ore resulting in the nickname the "Iron Plantation", with the highest number of slaves being in Tinton Falls at that time in the colony of New Jersey, though in mid-18th century it had the biggest number of emancipated slaves in the 13 colonies, as inhabitants followed the preaching of abolitionist John Woolman. At this time, Shrewsbury encompassed all of the territory in easterly Monmouth County, but saw the departure of a large number of new municipalities over the years, including the borough of Shrewsbury in 1926.
In July 1950, Tinton Falls and Wayside left Shrewsbury Twp., renaming themselves the Borough of New Shrewsbury.
To avoid postal confusion and mix-ups with the encircling borough and township of Shrewsbury, the inhabitants of New Shrewsbury voted to rename the improve as "The Borough of Tinton Falls" in 1975. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, Tinton Falls borough had a total region of 15.623 square miles (40.463 km2), including 15.487 square miles (40.110 km2) of territory and 0.136 square miles (0.352 km2) of water (0.87%). The township borders the Monmouth County municipalities of Colts Neck Township, Eatontown, Middletown Township, Neptune Township, Ocean Township, Red Bank, Shrewsbury, Shrewsbury Township and Wall Township. The Tinton Falls Solar Farm is a 19.9-megawatt solar photovoltaic power plant, that contains 85,000 ground-mounted solar panels that has been the state's largest, and was one of the biggest solar farms in the northeast United States at the time of its construction. Shark River Park, the first encompassed in the Monmouth County Park System when it was established in 1961, covers 961 acres (389 ha) along the Shark River in portions of Tinton Falls, Neptune Township and Wall Township. The Borough of Tinton Falls operates under the Faulkner Act, formally known as the Optional Municipal Charter Law, using the Mayor-Council form of municipal government (Plan 6), implemented by direct petition as of July 1, 1985. The Mayor is the Chief Executive Officer of the Borough and is propel for a four-year term.
The Borough Council is the legislative body, made up of five members propel at-large for four-year terms on a staggered basis, with either two or three seats up for election every other year as part of the November general election, with the mayoral seat up for vote at the same time that two council seats are being chosen by voters. The Borough Council voted in May 2010 to shift its non-partisan elections from May to the November general election, as part of an accomplishment to increase participation of voters and to cut costs associated with the May elections, with savings estimated at nearly $100,000 amid the first decade after the change was implemented in the November 2011 vote. Tinton Falls is positioned in the 4th Congressional District and is part of New Jersey's 11th state legislative district. Prior to the 2011 reapportionment following the 2010 Census, Tinton Falls had been in the 12th state legislative district. Prior to the 2010 Census, Tinton Falls had been part of the 12th Congressional District, a change made by the New Jersey Redistricting Commission that took effect in January 2013, based on the results of the November 2012 general elections. New Jersey's Fourth Congressional District is represented by Christopher Smith (R). New Jersey is represented in the United States Senate by Cory Booker (D, Newark, term ends 2021) and Bob Menendez (D, Paramus, 2019).
Public school students in kindergarten through eighth undertaking attend the three schools in the Tinton Falls School District, together with students from the neighboring improve of Shrewsbury Township and the dependent kids of military families based at Naval Weapons Station Earle. All three of the district's schools are positioned in Tinton Falls.
Students in enhance school for ninth through twelfth grades attend Monmouth Regional High School, positioned in Tinton Falls.
The school also serves students from Eatontown, Shrewsbury Township and Naval Weapons Station Earle. As of the 2014-15 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 985 students and 76.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student teacher ratio of 12.9:1. Students may also apply to attend one of the magnet schools in the Monmouth County Vocational School District Marine Academy of Science and Technology, Academy of Allied Health & Science, High Technology High School, Biotechnology High School, and Communications High School. As of May 2010, the borough had a total of 96.93 miles (155.99 km) of roadways, of which 65.99 miles (106.20 km) were maintained by the municipality, 17.77 miles (28.60 km) by Monmouth County, 4.22 miles (6.79 km) by the New Jersey Department of Transportation and 8.95 miles (14.40 km) by the New Jersey Turnpike Authority. Passing through Tinton Falls are the Garden State Parkway, Route 18, Route 33, and Route 66. Tinton Falls homes exits 100 (including the Monmouth Service Area), 102, 105, and 109 on the parkway, including a high-speed toll gate, and the southern start/end of the express and small-town carriageways, although the borough is listed only on signs for exit 105. Major county roads that pass through Tinton Falls are County Route 537 (Tinton Avenue) which crosses the northern portion of the borough from Colts Neck Township in the west to Eatontown in the east, and County Route 547 (Shafto Road), which enters from Wall Township at the borough's southwest corner and proceeds northeast towards Eatontown. See also: Category:People from Tinton Falls, New Jersey.
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"New Shrewsbury was established out of Shrewsbury in 1950 and retitled Tinton Falls in 1975 to avoid postal bringy errors." And the sparsely populated breakaway borough adopted the name New Shrewsbury, which it changed to Tinton Falls in 1975 to eliminate postal confusion....
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Confusion, if you happen to live in the Monmouth County improve of New Shrewsbury (as distinguished from neighboring Shrewsbury Township and the Borough of Shrewsbury) or in the Ocean County improve of Dover Township (as distinguished from, Dover, which is in Morris County, well to the north)." Locality Search, State of New Jersey.
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Tinton Falls Solar Farm, LLC: 19.9 megawatts - The farm is positioned on 100 acres of territory in the Monmouth County improve has 85,000 ground-mounted solar panels providing electricity to the power grid, enough to power about 3,000 homes." Hockhockson Park, Tinton Falls, New Jersey.
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"In a move that is expected to eventually save close to $100,000 and boost voter turnout, the Tinton Falls Borough Council agreed to move the municipal election date to coincide with the fall general election.
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Fire District 1 & Fire District 2, Tinton Falls, New Jersey.
Fire District 1, Tinton Falls, New Jersey.
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"Whether or not the Tinton Falls School District is obligated to educate all kids living at Naval Weapons Station Earle in Colts Neck, is expected to be an copy with ramifications for taxpayers in the borough school district....
The resolution states that the education of non-Navy dependent kids who will remain at NWS Earle for a several more years, as well as additional non-Navy dependent kids who will reside at NWS Earle in the future, was never contemplated in the 1988 agreement and is an unfair tax burden to the taxpayers of the Borough of Tinton Falls and the Township of Shrewsbury." "Public school students in grades K through 8 attend the three schools in the Tinton Falls School District.
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Pupils attending reside in the Monmouth County communities of Eatontown, Shrewsbury Township, and Tinton Falls.
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