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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

Morris County, New Jersey

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

County Seat: Morristown
Year Organized: 1739
Square Miles: 469

Court House:

Court Street, 5th Floor
County Administration & Records Building
Morristown, NJ 07960-0000

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Morris is named for Lewis Morris, the colonial Governor of New Jersey from 1738 to 1746.

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

History

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Neighboring Counties:

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Cities and Towns:

- Boonton	town	Incorporated Area
- Butler	borough	Incorporated Area
- Chatham	borough	Incorporated Area
- Chester	borough	Incorporated Area
- Denville	township
- Dover	town	Incorporated Area
- East Hanover	township
- Florham Park	borough	Incorporated Area
- Hanover	township
- Harding	township
- Jefferson	township
- Kinnelon	borough	Incorporated Area
- Lincoln Park	borough	Incorporated Area
- Long Hill	township
- Madison	borough	Incorporated Area
- Mendham	borough	Incorporated Area
- Mine Hill	township
- Montville	township
- Morris	township
- Morris Plains	borough	Incorporated Area
- Morristown (County Seat)	town	Incorporated Area
- Mount Arlington	borough	Incorporated Area
- Mount Olive	township
- Mountain Lakes	borough	Incorporated Area
- Netcong	borough	Incorporated Area
- Parsippany-Troy Hills	township
- Pequannock	township
- Randolph	township
- Riverdale	borough	Incorporated Area
- Rockaway	borough	Incorporated Area
- Roxbury	township
- Victory Gardens	borough	Incorporated Area
- Wharton	borough	Incorporated Area

County Resources:

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County Resource Guide

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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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