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Burlington County, New Jersey

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

County Seat: Mount Holly
Year Organized: 1694
Square Miles: 805
Court House:

49 Rancocas Road, PO Box 6000
County Office Building
Mount Holly, NJ 08060-1388

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Burlington is named for a corruption of Bridlington, England.

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

Burlington County's historic Court House in Mount Holly was built in 1796 and considered one of the finest examples of early American architecture in the country, is truly indicative of the historic lore that surrounds it. Although officially incorporated on May 17, 1694, the rudiments of county government were established with Burlington County on March 25, 1681 and were in effect before William Penn laid out the city of Philadelphia. The Lenni-Lenape Indians were the aboriginal owners of the county. In October, 1677 a group of English debarked from the ship Kent and founded the town of Burlington. The American Indians sold more and more of their lands to the new settlers until finally, in 1801, there remained less than 100 adult American Indians on the Indian Mills reservation, which was the first American Indian reservation in the United States and the American Indian's last dwelling place in Burlington County.

Geography

Burlington County is the largest county in New Jersey covering 827 square miles. According to the Population Estimates Program, Population Division of the US Bureau of the Census, the estimated population of Burlington County is 450,743 as of 2005. The land ranges 524,160 acres bordered by Mercer County from the north, Monmouth County from the northeast, Ocean County from the east, Atlantic County from the southwest, and Camden County to the west. The land extends from the Delaware River and the Great Bay on the Atlantic Ocean. The total area is 529,351 acres including 5,191 acres of water.

Neighboring Counties:

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Cities and Towns:

- Bass River township
- Beverly city Incorporated Area
- Bordentown city Incorporated Area
- Burlington city Incorporated Area
- Chesterfield township
- Cinnaminson township
- Delanco township
- Delran township
- Eastampton township
- Edgewater Park township
- Evesham township
- Fieldsboro borough Incorporated Area
- Florence township
- Hainesport township
- Lumberton township
- Mansfield township
- Maple Shade township
- Medford township
- Medford Lakes borough Incorporated Area
- Moorestown township
- Mount Holly (County Seat) township
- Mount Laurel township
- New Hanover township
- North Hanover township
- Palmyra borough Incorporated Area
- Pemberton borough Incorporated Area
- Riverside township
- Riverton borough Incorporated Area
- Shamong township
- Southampton township
- Tabernacle township
- Trenton city Incorporated Area
- Westampton township
- Willingboro township
- Woodland township
- Wrightstown borough Incorporated Area

County Resources:

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County Resources
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The history of our nation was a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names given the counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic features of this 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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