Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- New Jersey
- County
- Gloucester
- Incorporated
- March 10, 1883
- Type
- Borough
- Body
- Borough Council
- Mayor
- Jessica S. Doheny ( D , term ends December 31, 2026)
- Municipal clerk
- Karen L. Sweeney
- Total
- 1.01 sq mi (2.62 km )
- Land
- 1.00 sq mi (2.58 km )
- Water
- 0.015 sq mi (0.04 km ) 1.58%
- Rank
- 498th of 565 in state, 23rd of 24 in county
- Elevation
- 69 ft (21 m)
- Estimate 2023
- 2,309
- Density
- 2,293/sq mi (885/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−05:00 ( Eastern (EST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC−04:00 ( Eastern (EDT) )
- Zip code
- 08090
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Encyclopedic overview
Wenonah is a borough in Gloucester County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 2,283, an increase of five people (+0.2%) from the 2010 census count of 2,278, which in turn reflected a decline of 39 (−1.7%) from the 2,317 counted in the 2000 census. It is located approximately 10 miles (16 km) south of Philadelphia, the nation's sixth-most populous city.
Wenonah was established as a borough by the New Jersey Legislature on March 10, 1883, from portions of Deptford Township, based on the results of a referendum that was held two days earlier. The borough was named for the mother of Hiawatha in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem The Song of Hiawatha.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wenonah” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.