Warren Township, New Jersey Warren Township, New Jersey Map of Warren Township in Somerset County.

Inset: Location of Somerset County highlighted in the State of New Jersey.

Map of Warren Township in Somerset County.

Inset: Location of Somerset County highlighted in the State of New Jersey.

Enumeration Bureau map of Warren Township, New Jersey Enumeration Bureau map of Warren Township, New Jersey State New Jersey Warren Township is a township in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States.

As of the 2010 United States Census, the township's populace was 15,311, reflecting an increase of 1,052 (+7.4%) from the 14,259 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 3,429 (+31.7%) from the 10,830 counted in the 1990 Census. In July 2009, CNNMoney.com ranked Warren sixth in the country on its list of "Best Places to Live" in the United States, citing in particular its schools, June carnival (the Lions Club's annual "Expo"), "wide open spaces" (generally 1.5 acres (0.61 ha) per home), 74 "working farms" ("taxed-as-farmland" tracts, but rural, nevertheless), and adjacency to New York City. As early as 1900, it became a destination for wealthy inhabitants looking to escape close-by New York City. Warren was incorporated as a township by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 5, 1806, from portions of Bernards Township and Bridgewater Township.

The south-eastern half of the initial township (which was close to a barns and contained most of the population) was separated off as North Plainfield Township (since retitled to Green Brook Township) on April 2, 1872. Warren was titled for Revolutionary War patriot, General Joseph Warren, who was killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill. Warren jubilated its 200th anniversary in 2006.

According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the township had a total region of 19.644 square miles (50.877 km2), including 19.567 square miles (50.678 km2) of territory and 0.077 square miles (0.199 km2) of water (0.39%). The township borders Bernards Township to the north and west, Bridgewater Township to the southwest, Green Brook Township to the southeast, and Watchung to the east; all of which lie inside Somerset County.

The east-west Second Watchung Mountain ridge bisects Warren, with the northern half of the township sloping northward to the Passaic River and Dead River, and the southern half spanning the Washington Valley, between the First and Second Watchung Mountain ridges, through which runs the East Branch of the Middlebrook.

As of the 2010 United States Census, there were 15,311 citizens , 5,059 homeholds, and 4,285 families residing in the township.

Warren Township is governed under the Township 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. At an annual reorganization meeting held in the first week of January, the Township Committee selects one of its members to serve as Mayor.

Former Township Committee member Frank Salvato, re-elected in 2008, served until his death in 2011 at the age of 98, having been first propel to the Committee in the 1938 and served as mayor in 1939, the township's youngest. In 1975, the Township Committee created the position of Township Administrator, to serve a one-year term beginning in July of each year.

Warren Township is positioned in the 7th Congressional District and is part of New Jersey's 21st 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).

(R, Westfield) and in the General Assembly by Jon Bramnick (R, Westfield) and Nancy Munoz (R, Summit). 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.

The Warren Township Schools serve enhance school students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade.

Students in enhance school for ninth through twelfth grades attend Watchung Hills Regional High School, which serves students from Warren as well as the neighboring communities of Watchung, Green Brook (in Somerset County) and Long Hill Township (in Morris County). As of the 2014-15 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 1,286 students and 94.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student teacher ratio of 13.6:1. As of May 2010, the township had a total of 126.65 miles (203.82 km) of roadways, of which 101.34 miles (163.09 km) were maintained by the municipality, 18.64 miles (30.00 km) by Somerset County and 6.67 miles (10.73 km) by the New Jersey Department of Transportation. See also: Category:People from Warren Township, New Jersey.

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"Warren Township scored a top slot on a list of America's best small suburbs to live in, but Mayor Carolann Garafola says living there feels more like a vacation.Garafola's home in Warren, which Money periodical today crowned the country's sixth best place to live, sits on a cul-de-sac surrounded by a carpet of trees." a b A Brief History of Warren Township, Warren Township.

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"He would have instead of his 10th consecutive three-year term on the Township Committee in December.Prior to that, he had been propel to nine consecutive three-year terms as one of Warren Township's delegates on the Watchung Hills Regional High School Board of Education.

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" Warren Musicians Take Top Awards at JAMJoe Cerisano and Michael Arrom titled state's best in their categories.", Warren Patch, May 7, 2013.

"Warren inhabitants Joe Cerisano and Michael Arrom were titled among Jersey's best musicians at the Jersey Acoustic Music Awards, Sunday at the Jersey Shore Arts Center, in Ocean Grove." "Ferguson and his wife, Maureen, have two young kids and reside in Warren Township in Somerset County." David Palmer: Born and raised in Warren township, Watchung, New Jersey which, despite being 45 minutes-an hour outside of Manhattan, was non-urban territory back then." Accessed October 21, 2015 "On April 18, 1976, a demon was born in Warren, New Jersey." Shust, Joseph "Former two-time Olympian from Warren Township an promote for ping pong in America", Echoes-Sentinel, December 3, 2012.

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