Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- New Jersey
- County
- Hunterdon
- Incorporated
- April 4, 1867
- Type
- Borough
- Body
- Borough Council
- Mayor
- Brad Myhre ( R , term ends December 31, 2023)
- Municipal clerk
- Brenda S. Shepherd
- Total
- 1.23 sq mi (3.18 km )
- Land
- 1.13 sq mi (2.92 km )
- Water
- 0.10 sq mi (0.26 km ) 8.05%
- Rank
- 481st of 565 in state, 20th of 26 in county
- Elevation
- 220 ft (67 m)
- Estimate 2023
- 1,472
- Density
- 1,214.2/sq mi (468.8/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−05:00 ( Eastern (EST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC−04:00 ( Eastern (EDT) )
- Zip code
- 08825
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- borough of New Jersey
- Official name
- Frenchtown
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Hunterdon County
- Population
- 1370
- Area
- 3.523663
- Elevation
- 220
- Time zone
- Eastern Time Zone
- Shares border with
- Kingwood Township
- Official website
- frenchtownboro.com
- Image
- Harrison Street, Frenchtown, New Jersey.jpg
- Households
- 591
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- inception
- 1867-04-04
- Commons category
- Frenchtown, New Jersey
- postal code
- 08825
- water as percent of area
- 7.1726
- per capita income
- 45069
Sources (10)
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Encyclopedic overview
Frenchtown is a borough in Hunterdon County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Frenchtown is located along the banks of the Delaware River on the Hunterdon Plateau, 32 miles (51 km) northwest of the state capital of Trenton. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 1,370, a decrease of three people (−0.2%) from the 2010 census count of 1,373, which in turn reflected a decline of 115 (−7.7%) from the 1,488 counted in the 2000 census.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Frenchtown” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.