Place:Montclair, Essex, New Jersey, United States

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NameMontclair
Alt namesCranetownsource: USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS34004523
Speertownsource: USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS34004523
Upper Montclairsource: Family History Library Catalog
TypeInhabited place
Coordinates40.817°N 74.2°W
Located inEssex, New Jersey, United States
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Montclair is a township in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. Situated on the cliffs of the Watchung Mountains, Montclair is a wealthy and diverse bedroom community of New Jersey within the New York metropolitan area. As of the 2020 United States Census, the township's population was 40,921,[1][2][3] reflecting a increase of 3,234 (+8.5%) from the 37,687 counted in the 2010 Census. As of 2010, it was the 60th-most-populous municipality in New Jersey.

Montclair was first formed as a township on April 15, 1868, from portions of Bloomfield Township, so that a second railroad could be built to Montclair. After a referendum held on February 21, 1894, Montclair was reincorporated as a town, effective February 24, 1894. It derives its name from the French mont clair, meaning "clear mountain" or "bright mountain."

In 1980, after multiple protests filed by Montclair officials regarding inequities built into the federal revenue-sharing system, Montclair passed a referendum changing its name to the "Township of Montclair," becoming the third of more than a dozen Essex County municipalities to reclassify themselves as townships to take advantage of federal revenue sharing policies that allocated townships a greater share of government aid to municipalities on a per capita basis.

Montclair, which opened the state's first marijuana dispensary in December 2012, joins Bellmawr, Cranbury, Egg Harbor Township and Woodbridge Township as one of the five municipalities (of 565 in the state) in New Jersey that have authorized the sale of medical cannabis.

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