Editing Bordentown Township, New Jersey (section)

==Geography==
According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the township had a total area of 9.28 square miles (24.02&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>), including 8.66 square miles (22.44&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>) of land and 0.61 square miles (1.58&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>) of water (6.59%).<ref name=CensusArea/><ref name=GR1 />

The township borders [[Bordentown, New Jersey|Bordentown City]], [[Chesterfield Township, New Jersey|Chesterfield Township]], [[Fieldsboro, New Jersey|Fieldsboro]], [[Florence Township, New Jersey|Florence Township]] and [[Mansfield Township, Burlington County, New Jersey|Mansfield Township]] in Burlington County; [[Hamilton Township, Mercer County, New Jersey|Hamilton Township]] in [[Mercer County, New Jersey|Mercer County]]; and [[Falls Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania|Falls Township]] across the [[Delaware River]] in [[Pennsylvania]].<ref>[https://global.mapit.mysociety.org/area/600433/touches.html Areas touching Bordentown Township], MapIt. Accessed March 20, 2020.</ref><ref>[https://www.dvrpc.org/Mapping/Maps/pdf/Burlington_MCDs.pdf Municipalities within Burlington County, NJ], [[Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission]]. Accessed March 20, 2020.</ref><ref>[https://www.state.nj.us/transportation/gis/maps/polnoroads.pdf New Jersey Municipal Boundaries], [[New Jersey Department of Transportation]]. Accessed November 15, 2019.</ref>

[[Crosswicks Creek]] and its juncture with the [[Delaware River]], otherwise known as the Trenton-Hamilton Marsh, is a significant ecosystem and, with the peninsula of land and waterways to the northwest of Bordentown Township known, respectively, as [[Duck Island (New Jersey)|Duck Island]], Duck Creek and the [[Delaware and Raritan Canal]], it is protected by the State of New Jersey as the Duck Island Recreation Area.<ref>[http://www.dvrpc.org/reports/04043.pdf Environmental Resource Inventory for the Township of Bordentown], [[Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission]], December 2004. Accessed June 13, 2012.</ref>

[[Local government in New Jersey#Unincorporated communities|Unincorporated communities]], localities and place names located partially or completely within the township include Bossert Estates, [[Dunns Mill, New Jersey|Dunns Mill]]<ref>[https://www.state.nj.us/transportation/refdata/gis/maps/Burlington.pdf Geographic Information System Maps Burlington], [[New Jersey Department of Transportation]]. Accessed February 27, 2022.</ref> and Newbold Island.<ref>[http://www.state.nj.us/infobank/localnames.txt Locality Search], State of [[New Jersey]]. Accessed April 28, 2015.</ref>

The former {{convert|40|acres|adj=on}} Parklands dump brownfield site is being transformed to a [[solar array]] by [[Public Service Enterprise Group|PSE&G]] as part of a project that began in 2014.<ref>Rojas, Cristina. [http://www.nj.com/mercer/index.ssf/2014/09/pseg_starts_construction_on_10-megawatt_landfill_solar_field.html#incart_river "PSE&G starts construction to turn landfill into 10-megawatt solar field"], ''[[The Times (Trenton)|The Times]]'', September 24, 2014. Accessed October 1, 2014.</ref>