Folsom
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borough of New Jersey, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- New Jersey
- County
- Atlantic
- Incorporated
- May 23, 1906
- Named after
- Frances Folsom
- Type
- Borough
- Body
- Borough Council
- Mayor
- Greg Schenker ( R , term ends December 31, 2023)
- Municipal clerk
- Patricia M. Gatto
- Total
- 8.51 sq mi (22.04 km )
- Land
- 8.26 sq mi (21.40 km )
- Water
- 0.24 sq mi (0.63 km ) 2.88%
- Rank
- 226th of 565 in state, 14th of 23 in county
- Elevation
- 56 ft (17 m)
- Estimate 2023
- 1,813
- Density
- 219.1/sq mi (84.6/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−05:00 ( Eastern (EST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC−04:00 ( Eastern (EDT) )
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Encyclopedic overview
Folsom is a borough in Atlantic County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Geographically, the city, and all of Atlantic County, is part of the South Jersey region and of the Atlantic City-Hammonton metropolitan statistical area, which in turn is included in the Philadelphia-Reading-Camden combined statistical area and the Delaware Valley.
As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 1,811, a decrease of 74 (−3.9%) from the 2010 census count of 1,885, which in turn reflected a decline of 87 (−4.4%) from the 1,972 counted in the 2000 census.
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