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 New Jersey has 21 counties. New Jersey was governed by two separate groups of proprietors as two distinct provinces, East Jersey and West Jersey, for the 28 years between 1674 and 1702. New Jersey's first counties were created as administrative districts within each province, with East Jersey split in 1675 into Bergen, Essex, Middlesex and Monmouth counties, while West Jersey's initial counties of Burlington and Salem date to 1681. The most recent county created in New Jersey was Union County, created in 1857 and named after the union of the United States
 

 

  		 

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Bergen County, New Jersey

Bergen County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education

 

 

County Seat: Hackensack
Year Organized: 1683
Square Miles: 234		 Court House:

One Bergen County Plaza
County Administration Building
Hackensack, NJ 07601-7076
Etymology - Origin of County Name

Bergen is believed to be named for either Bergen-op-Zoom, the Netherlands or Bergen, Norway.

 

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

History

Bergen was one of the four original counties in New Jersey. Its early borders reached into what are now Passaic and Hudson counties. Bergen County today is a 239-square-mile parcel of land in the northeast corner of the state, with a population of over 900,000 people.

Although Bergen was designated a “judicial district” in 1675, it was not until 1683 that the Provincial Assembly passed an act creating the counties of Bergen, Essex, Middlesex and Monmouth.

In 1710, Hackensack was designated as the county seat. The oldest records of the Bergen County Board of Freeholders and Justices are dated May 19, 1715. At that meeting, it was decided to build a combined courthouse and jail which was erected on Hackensack’s historic Green in 1716.

Bergen County observed the 300th anniversary of its founding on March 7, 1983. In 1985, the voters approved a governmental change which had been recommended by the Bergen County Charter Study Commission, elected a year earlier to assess the freeholder form of government.

In November 1986, Bergen’s form of government changed. Instead of nine freeholders, voters chose a County Executive and seven freeholders.

 

 

Neighboring Counties:
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Cities and Towns:
- Allendale borough Incorporated Area
- Alpine borough Incorporated Area
- Bergenfield borough Incorporated Area
- Bogota borough Incorporated Area
- Carlstadt borough Incorporated Area
- Cliffside Park borough Incorporated Area
- Closter borough Incorporated Area
- Cresskill borough Incorporated Area
- Demarest borough Incorporated Area
- Dumont borough Incorporated Area
- East Rutherford borough Incorporated Area
- Edgewater borough Incorporated Area
- Elmwood Park borough Incorporated Area
- Emerson borough Incorporated Area
- Englewood city Incorporated Area
- Englewood Cliffs borough Incorporated Area
- Fair Lawn borough Incorporated Area
- Fairview borough Incorporated Area
- Fort Lee borough Incorporated Area
- Franklin Lakes borough Incorporated Area
- Garfield city Incorporated Area
- Glen Rock borough Incorporated Area
- Hackensack (County Seat) city Incorporated Area
- Harrington Park borough Incorporated Area
- Hasbrouck Heights borough Incorporated Area
- Haworth borough Incorporated Area
- Hillsdale borough Incorporated Area
- Ho-Ho-Kus borough Incorporated Area
- Leonia borough Incorporated Area
- Little Ferry borough Incorporated Area
- Lodi borough Incorporated Area
- Lyndhurst township  
- Mahwah township  
- Maywood borough Incorporated Area
- Midland Park borough Incorporated Area
- Montvale borough Incorporated Area
- Moonachie borough Incorporated Area
- New Milford borough Incorporated Area
- North Arlington borough Incorporated Area
- Northvale borough Incorporated Area
- Norwood borough Incorporated Area
- Oakland borough Incorporated Area
- Old Tappan borough Incorporated Area
- Oradell borough Incorporated Area
- Palisades Park borough Incorporated Area
- Paramus borough Incorporated Area
- Park Ridge borough Incorporated Area
- Ramsey borough Incorporated Area
- Ridgefield borough Incorporated Area
- Ridgefield Park village Incorporated Area
- Ridgewood village Incorporated Area
- River Edge borough Incorporated Area
- River Vale township  
- Rochelle Park township  
- Rockleigh borough Incorporated Area
- Rutherford borough Incorporated Area
- Saddle Brook township  
- Saddle River borough Incorporated Area
- South Hackensack township  
- Teaneck township  
- Tenafly borough Incorporated Area
- Teterboro borough Incorporated Area
- Upper Saddle River borough Incorporated Area
- Waldwick borough Incorporated Area
- Wallington borough Incorporated Area
- Westwood borough Incorporated Area
- Woodcliff Lake borough Incorporated Area
- Wood-Ridge borough Incorporated Area
- Wyckoff township
County Resources:
  

 

County Resource Guide

Counties: US Map

The history of our nation can be seen as a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names we've given our counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic features of our country!"

But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history.

Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally, act locally."
 

 

 

 

 
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