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- source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- source: Family History Library Catalog
- the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia
Hunterdon County is a county located in the western section of the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States Census, the county's population was 128,947, making it the state's 18th-most populous county, representing an increase of 598 (0.5%) from the 128,349 enumerated in the 2010 United States Census, which in turn increased by 6,360 (5.2%) from the 121,989 counted in the 2000 Census. Its county seat is Flemington.
In 2015, the county had a per capita personal income of $80,759, the third-highest in New Jersey and ranked 33rd of 3,113 counties in the United States. The Bureau of Economic Analysis ranked the county as having the 19th-highest per capita income of all 3,113 counties in the United States (and the highest in New Jersey) as of 2009. Hunterdon County is noted for having the second-lowest level of child poverty of any county in the United States.
Geographically, much of the county lies in the Delaware Valley as a geographic concept, that is, the drainage basin of the Delaware River. Local businesses and the Delaware Valley Regional High School carry the name. However, "Delaware Valley" is also used to refer to the Philadelphia-Reading-Camden Combined Statistical Area (CSA), and Hunterdon County does not belong to the Philadelphia CSA, but rather to the New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), part of the larger New York-Newark Combined Statistical Area (CSA). It is located within the state's Skylands Region.
Hunterdon County was established on March 11, 1714, separating from Burlington County, at which time it included all of present-day Morris, Sussex and Warren counties. The rolling hills and rich soils which produce bountiful agricultural crops drew Native American tribes and then Europeans to the area.
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Population History
- source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
| Census Year | Population
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| 1790 | 20,153
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| 1800 | 21,261
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| 1810 | 24,556
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| 1820 | 28,604
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| 1830 | 31,060
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| 1840 | 24,789
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| 1850 | 28,990
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| 1860 | 33,654
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| 1870 | 36,963
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| 1880 | 38,570
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| 1890 | 35,355
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| 1900 | 34,507
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| 1910 | 33,569
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| 1920 | 32,885
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| 1930 | 34,728
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| 1940 | 36,766
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| 1950 | 42,736
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| 1960 | 54,107
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| 1970 | 69,718
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| 1980 | 87,361
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| 1990 | 107,776
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Cemeteries
Cemeteries of Hunterdon County, New Jersey, United States
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