Place:Bordentown, Burlington, New Jersey, United States

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NameBordentown
Alt namesBordentonsource: USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS34000684
Burdenstownsource: USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS34000684
Farnsworths Landingsource: USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS34000684
TypeCity
Coordinates40.146°N 74.71°W
Located inBurlington, New Jersey, United States
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Bordentown is a city in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city's population was 3,924.[1][2] The population declined by 45 (-1.1%) from the 3,969 counted in the 2000 U.S. Census, which had in turn declined by 372 (-8.6%) from the 4,341 counted in the 1990 Census.

Bordentown is located at the confluence of the Delaware River, Blacks Creek, and Crosswicks Creek. The latter is the border between Burlington and Mercer counties. Bordentown is the northernmost municipality in New Jersey that is considered a part of the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is approximately one-third the distance between Center City Philadelphia and Midtown Manhattan, located south of the state capital Trenton, northeast of Center City Philadelphia, and southwest of New York City.

Bordentown's first recorded European settlement was made in 1682 in what became known as Farnsworth's Landing and, after 1717, the town that had developed in the Provence of New Jersey was renamed to Borden's Town. Following the revolution and the establishment of the New Jersey state government, Bordentown was incorporated with a borough government form by an act of its legislature on December 9, 1825, from portions within Chesterfield Township. It was reincorporated with a city government form on April 3, 1867, and it was separated from Chesterfield Township about 1877.

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