Voorhees Township, New Jersey
Voorhees Township, New Jersey Official seal of Voorhees Township, New Jersey Voorhees highlighted in Camden County Voorhees highlighted in Camden County Enumeration Bureau map of Voorhees Township, New Jersey Enumeration Bureau map of Voorhees Township, New Jersey State New Jersey Voorhees Township is a township in Camden County, New Jersey, United States.
As of the 2010 United States Census, the township's populace was 29,131, reflecting an increase of 1,005 (+3.6%) from the 28,126 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 3,567 (+14.5%) from the 24,559 counted in the 1990 Census. Voorhees is a New Jersey suburb in the Greater Philadelphia Metropolitan Area.
Voorhees Township was incorporated as a township by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 1, 1899, from portions of Waterford Township.
The township is titled for Foster Mc - Gowan Voorhees, the Governor of New Jersey who authorized its creation. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the township had a total region of 11.644 square miles (30.157 km2), including 11.492 square miles (29.764 km2) of territory and 0.152 square miles (0.392 km2) of water (1.30%). Voorhees borders the Camden County communities of Berlin Township, Cherry Hill Township, Gibbsboro, Lindenwold, and Somerdale.
Average snowy days 5 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 13 As of the 2010 United States Census, there were 29,131 citizens , 11,470 homeholds, and 7,433 families residing in the township.
New Jersey American Water, based in Voorhees Township, is the biggest water utility in New Jersey, serving over two million citizens in 176 communities throughout the state.
New Jersey American Water is a wholly owned subsidiary of American Water. Voorhees is the home of the Skate Zone, a training facility for the Philadelphia Flyers of the NHL. Current and former players of the team often turn into inhabitants of Voorhees.
The Township of Voorhees is governed under the Township form of New Jersey municipal 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 Mayors are chosen by the Township Committee from among its members amid the Reorganization meeting each January.
Voorhees Township is positioned in the 1st Congressional District and is part of New Jersey's 6th 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).
Camden County's constitutional officers, all propel directly by voters, are County clerk Joseph Ripa, Sheriff Charles H.
Billingham, and Surrogate Patricia Egan Jones. The Camden County Prosecutor Mary Eva Colalillo was appointed by the Governor of New Jersey with the advice and consent of the New Jersey Senate (the upper home of the New Jersey Legislature). As of March 23, 2011, there were a total of 19,762 registered voters in Voorhees Township, of which 7,392 (37.4%) were registered as Democrats, 3,129 (15.8%) were registered as Republicans and 9,229 (46.7%) were registered as Unaffiliated.
In the 2012 presidential election, Democrat Barack Obama received 60.3% of the vote (8,479 cast), ahead of Republican Mitt Romney with 38.7% (5,450 votes), and other candidates with 1.0% (137 votes), among the 14,160 ballots cast by the township's 21,493 registered voters (94 ballots were sp oi led), for a turnout of 65.9%. In the 2008 presidential election, Democrat Barack Obama received 61.1% of the vote (9,028 cast), ahead of Republican John Mc - Cain, who received around 35.3% (5,216 votes), with 14,768 ballots cast among the township's 19,553 registered voters, for a turnout of 75.5%. In the 2004 presidential election, Democrat John Kerry received 57.5% of the vote (7,835 ballots cast), outpolling Republican George W.
In the 2013 gubernatorial election, Republican Chris Christie received 61.4% of the vote (4,679 cast), ahead of Democrat Barbara Buono with 37.4% (2,851 votes), and other candidates with 1.2% (95 votes), among the 7,845 ballots cast by the township's 21,636 registered voters (220 ballots were spoiled), for a turnout of 36.3%. In the 2009 gubernatorial election, Democrat Jon Corzine received 50.% of the vote (4,126 ballots cast), ahead of both Republican Chris Christie with 44.2% (3,645 votes) and Independent Chris Daggett with 3.8% (315 votes), with 8,248 ballots cast among the township's 19,611 registered voters, yielding a 42.1% turnout. Students in kindergarten through eighth undertaking attend the Voorhees Township Public Schools.
As of the 2013-14 school year, the district's five schools had an enrollment of 2,994 students and 236.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student teacher ratio of 12.6:1. Schools in the precinct (with 2013-14 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are four elementary schools Edward T.
Hamilton Elementary School was recognized as a National Blue Ribbon School by the United States Department of Education, one of 233 chose nationwide. Public school students in ninth through twelfth grades attend the Eastern Camden County Regional High School District, a limited-purpose, enhance county-wide school precinct that serves students at Eastern Regional High School from the constituent communities of Berlin Borough, Gibbsboro and Voorhees Township. As of the 2013-14 school year, the high school precinct had an enrollment of 2,049 students. Kellman Academy) is a private Jewish day school serving kids aged 3 through 8th undertaking which had an enrollment of 206 students as of the 2011-12 school year. The school was established in 1958 in association with Congregation Beth El at Parkside in Camden and has been positioned in Voorhees autonomously since October 2008 as part of the Solomon Schechter Day School Association. The biggest branch of the Camden County Library is positioned in Voorhees.
As of May 2010, the township had a total of 119.81 miles (192.82 km) of roadways, of which 96.90 miles (155.95 km) were maintained by the municipality, 20.50 miles (32.99 km) by Camden County and 2.41 miles (3.88 km) by the New Jersey Department of Transportation. The only primary highway that passes through Voorhees is Route 73 (Berlin-Kresson Road), which travels from the southern border with Berlin Township towards Evesham Township in Burlington County. Interstate 295 and Route 70 furnish access to close-by Philadelphia via Cherry Hill Township.
Route 30/Berlin), 31 (Woodcrest Station) or 36 (Route 73) to access parts of the township.
County Route 544 (Evesham Road) runs along the border with Cherry Hill on the north side of the township and County Route 561 (Haddonfield-Berlin Road) clips the southwest corner of the township, from Berlin Township in the south, passes through Gibbsboro, reenters the township's northwest corner before heading into Cherry Hill. One station on the PATCO Speedline rail system, Ashland, is positioned inside township limits. The Woodcrest and Lindenwold stations are also easily accessible to many residents.
See also: Category:People from Voorhees Township, New Jersey.
People (and animals) who were born in, inhabitants of, or otherwise closely associated with Voorhees Township include: James Beach (born 1946), member of the New Jersey Senate. Stanley Brotman (1994-2014), Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey. Louis Greenwald (born 1967), represents the 6th Legislative District in the New Jersey General Assembly. Mary Previte (born 1932), member of the New Jersey General Assembly who represented the 6th Legislative District from 1998 to 2006. a b c d e f 2010 Enumeration Gazetteer Files: New Jersey County Subdivisions, United States Enumeration Bureau.
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"In the first deal in the United States since the terrorist attacks of last week, American Water Works of Voorhees, N.J., has agreed to be sold to RWE, a German utility, for more than $5 billion, executives close to the transaction said yesterday....
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"In the Senate, Democrat James Beach - a Voorhees resident who served as Camden County clerk and freeholder - bested Republican Joseph Adolf..." Brotman, 89, of Voorhees, a former federal judge in New Jersey, died Friday, Feb.
"The cat originally titled Powder wound up at the Camden County Animal Shelter last week after his owner, Donna Oklatner, 65, of Voorhees, N.J., could no longer pay the bills." "Arie Gluck, 86, of Voorhees, a member of Israel's first Olympic track team and a legendary director of a summer camp in the Poconos, died Thursday, June 23, at Virtua Voorhees Hospital." "He moved to Voorhees, New Jersey, at age 12 and began studying drums in junior high and oboe in high school." "A proud family man, Ron Jaworski presently resides in Voorhees, New Jersey with his wife, Liz." "One evening, after dinner at the family's home in Voorhees, N.J., he broke the news to his parents, Joan and Joseph, and his younger sister, Susan." "The Voorhees, New Jersey, native had not yet turned 10 years old, and was diagnosed with a rare form of pelvic bladder cancer.
"LADIES SET FOR COURT BATTLE \ CAMDEN CATHOLIC STANDS TALL EARLY ON", Philadelphia Daily News, December 26, 1997.
"For three months, from October 6 past his 19th birthday on New Year's Day to January 5, Taliaferro underwent rehabilitation therapy at the Magee Rehabilitation Center in Philadelphia, 15 miles from his home in Voorhees, N.J." New Jersey portal Voorhees Township Public Schools Voorhees Township Public Schools's 2015 16 School Report Card from the New Jersey Department of Education School Data for the Voorhees Township Public Schools, National Center for Education Statistics Voorhees Township Municipalities and communities of Camden County, New Jersey, United States
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