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== Municipalities == [[Image:Morris County, New Jersey Municipalities.png|thumb|400px|Indexed map of Morris County municipalities (click to see index key){{Clarification needed|reason=index key is not clickable|date=March 2023}}]] {{maplink|frame=yes|text=Interactive map of municipalities in Morris County.|raw={ "type": "ExternalData", "service": "geoshape", "properties": {"fill": "#07c63e"}, "query": " SELECT ?id ?idLabel (CONCAT('[[', SUBSTR(STR(?link), 31 , 500 ), '|', ?idLabel, ']]') AS ?title) WHERE { ?id (wdt:P31/(wdt:P279*)) wd:Q54115138; wdt:P131 wd:Q498163. ?link schema:about ?id; schema:isPartOf <https://en.wikipedia.org/>. SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language 'en'. } OPTIONAL { ?id wdt:P402 ?OSM_relation_ID. } } " } |frame-width=300|frame-height=400|frame-lat=40.8765|frame-long=-74.5323|zoom=9 }} The 39 municipalities in Morris County (with 2010 Census data for population, housing units and area) are:<ref name=LWD2020/> {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Municipality<br />(with map key) ! ! Municipal<br />type ! Population ! Housing<br />Units ! Total<br />Area ! Water<br />Area ! Land<br />Area ! Pop.<br />Density ! Housing<br />Density !School District ! Communities<ref>[http://www.state.nj.us/infobank/localnames.txt Locality Search], State of [[New Jersey]]. Accessed May 11, 2015.</ref> |- |[[Boonton, New Jersey|Boonton Town]] |15|| town || 8,815 || 3,398 || 2.51 || 0.17 || 2.34 || 3,574.6 || 1,455.2 |[[Boonton Public Schools|Boonton]]|| |- |[[Boonton Township, New Jersey|Boonton Township]] |22|| township || 4,380 || 1,647 || 8.63 || 0.39 || 8.24 || 517.2 || 199.8 |[[Mountain Lakes Schools|Mountain Lakes]] (9-12) ([[Sending/receiving relationship|S/R]])<br>[[Boonton Township School District|Boonton Township]] (PK-8) | |- |[[Butler, New Jersey|Butler]] |18|| borough || 8,047 || 3,169 || 2.09 || 0.05 || 2.04 || 3,703.2 || 1,556.6 |[[Butler Public Schools|Butler]]|| |- |[[Chatham Borough, New Jersey|Chatham Borough]] |1|| borough || 9,212 || 3,210 || 2.42 || 0.05 || 2.37 || 3,776.1 || 1,352.5 |[[School District of the Chathams|The Chathams]]|| |- |[[Chatham Township, New Jersey|Chatham Township]] |38|| township || 10,983 || 4,128 || 9.36 || 0.38 || 8.98 || 1,164.2 || 459.8 |[[School District of the Chathams|The Chathams]]|| [[Green Village, New Jersey|Green Village]] CDP (part; 1,103) |- |[[Chester Borough, New Jersey|Chester Borough]] |7|| borough || 1,681 || 647 || 1.60 || 0.00 || 1.59 || 1,034.8 || 406.0 |[[West Morris Regional High School District|West Morris]] (9-12)<br>[[Chester School District|Chester]] (PK-8) | |- |[[Chester Township, New Jersey|Chester Township]] |29|| township || 7,713 || 2,697 || 29.46 || 0.09 || 29.38 || 266.8 || 91.8 |[[West Morris Regional High School District|West Morris]] (9-12)<br>[[Chester School District|Chester]] (PK-8) | |- |[[Denville Township, New Jersey|Denville]] |31|| township || 17,107 || 6,734 || 12.64 || 0.77 || 11.87 || 1,401.8 || 567.4 |[[Morris Hills Regional High School District|Morris Hills]] (9-12)<br>[[Denville Township School District|Denville Township]] (PK-8) | [[Cedar Lake, New Jersey|Cedar Lake]]<br />[[Estling Lake]]<br />[[Indian Lake (New Jersey)|Indian Lake]]<br />[[Denville Township, New Jersey|Lake Arrowhead]]<br>[[Mount Tabor, New Jersey|Mount Tabor]] CDP (part; 1,244)<br />[[Union Hill, Morris County, New Jersey|Union Hill]] |- |[[Dover, New Jersey|Dover]] |11|| town || 18,460 || 5,783 || 2.73 || 0.05 || 2.68 || 6,765.5 || 2,154.8 |[[Dover School District (New Jersey)|Dover]]|| |- |[[East Hanover Township, New Jersey|East Hanover]] |33|| township || 11,105 || 3,976 || 8.14 || 0.24 || 7.89 || 1,413.7 || 503.8 |[[Hanover Park Regional High School District|Hanover Park]] (9-12)<br>[[East Hanover School District|East Hanover]] (PK-8) | |- |[[Florham Park, New Jersey|Florham Park]] |3|| borough || 12,585 || 4,201 || 7.54 || 0.25 || 7.29 || 1,604.9 || 576.4 |[[Hanover Park Regional High School District|Hanover Park]] (9-12)<br>[[Florham Park School District|Florham Park]] (PK-8) | |- |[[Hanover Township, New Jersey|Hanover]] |34|| township || 14,677 || 5,526 || 10.73 || 0.20 || 10.52 || 1,302.8 || 525.0 |[[Hanover Park Regional High School District|Hanover Park]] (9-12)<br>[[Hanover Township Public Schools|Hanover Township]] (PK-8) | [[Cedar Knolls, New Jersey|Cedar Knolls]] CDP (4,082)<br />[[Whippany, New Jersey|Whippany]] CDP (8,863) |- |[[Harding Township, New Jersey|Harding]] |37|| township || 3,871 || 1,610 || 20.44 || 0.53 || 19.92 || 192.7 || 80.8 |[[Madison Public Schools|Madison]] (9-12) ([[Sending/receiving relationship|S/R]])<br>[[Harding Township School District|Harding Township]] (PK-8) | [[Green Village, New Jersey|Green Village]] CDP (part; 1,103)<br />[[New Vernon, New Jersey|New Vernon]] CDP (825) |- |[[Jefferson Township, New Jersey|Jefferson]] |24|| township || 20,538 || 8,597 || 43.11 || 3.98 || 39.13 || 544.7 || 219.7 |[[Jefferson Township Public Schools|Jefferson Township]]|| [[Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey|Lake Hopatcong]] CDP (10,232)<br />[[Lake Swannanoa, New Jersey|Lake Swannanoa]]<br>[[Lower Berkshire Valley, New Jersey|Lower Berkshire Valley]] CDP (part; 617)<br />[[Newfoundland, New Jersey|Newfoundland]] CDP (part; 1,145)<br />[[Oak Ridge, New Jersey|Oak Ridge]] CDP (part; 10,996)<br />[[Picatinny Arsenal]]<br />[[Russia, New Jersey|Russia]] |- |[[Kinnelon, New Jersey|Kinnelon]] |17|| borough || 9,966 || 3,600 || 19.19 || 1.20 || 17.99 || 569.7 || 200.1 |[[Kinnelon Public Schools|Kinnelon]]|| [[Jacksonville, Morris County, New Jersey|Jacksonville]]<br />[[Smoke Rise (community)|Smoke Rise]] |- |[[Lincoln Park, New Jersey|Lincoln Park]] |16|| borough || 10,915 || 4,145 || 6.91 || 0.53 || 6.38 || 1,649.0 || 649.7 |[[Boonton Public Schools|Boonton]] (9-12) ([[Sending/receiving relationship|S/R]])<br>[[Lincoln Park Public Schools (New Jersey)|Lincoln Park]] (PK-8) | [[Jacksonville, Morris County, New Jersey|Jacksonville]] |- |[[Long Hill Township, New Jersey|Long Hill]] |39|| township || 8,629 || 3,226 || 12.14 || 0.29 || 11.85 || 734.3 || 272.2 |[[Watchung Hills Regional High School|Watchung Hills]] (9-12)<br>[[Long Hill Township School System|Long Hill Township]] (PK-8) | [[Gillette, New Jersey|Gillette]] CDP (2,956)<br />[[Millington, New Jersey|Millington]] CDP (3,038)<br />[[Stirling, New Jersey|Stirling]] CDP (2,555) |- |[[Madison, New Jersey|Madison]] |2|| borough || 16,937 || 5,775 || 4.22 || 0.01 || 4.21 || 3,767.9 || 1,373.3 |[[Madison Public Schools|Madison]]|| |- |[[Mendham Borough, New Jersey|Mendham Borough]] |6|| borough || 4,981 || 1,798 || 6.00 || 0.05 || 5.95 || 837.1 || 302.2 |[[West Morris Regional High School District|West Morris]] (9-12)<br>[[Mendham Borough Schools|Mendham Borough]] (PK-8) | |- |[[Mendham Township, New Jersey|Mendham Township]] |36|| township || 5,869 || 2,062 || 18.10 || 0.23 || 17.87 || 328.4 || 115.4 |[[West Morris Regional High School District|West Morris]] (9-12)<br>[[Mendham Township Public Schools|Mendham Township]] (PK-8) | [[Brookside, New Jersey|Brookside]] CDP (1,737) |- |[[Mine Hill Township, New Jersey|Mine Hill]] |25|| township || 4,015 || 1,380 || 3.03 || 0.09 || 2.94 || 1,241.6 || 469.3 |[[Dover School District (New Jersey)|Dover]] (7-12) ([[Sending/receiving relationship|S/R]])<br>[[Mine Hill School District|Mine Hill]] (PK-6) | |- |[[Montville, New Jersey|Montville]] |21|| township || 22,450 || 7,823 || 19.06 || 0.58 || 18.48 || 1,165.0 || 423.3 |[[Montville Township School District|Montville Township]]|| [[Jacksonville, Morris County, New Jersey|Jacksonville]]<br />[[Pine Brook, Morris County, New Jersey|Pine Brook]] CDP (5,675)<br />[[Towaco, New Jersey|Towaco]] CDP (5,624) |- |[[Morris Plains, New Jersey|Morris Plains]] |5|| borough || 6,153 || 2,197 || 2.59 || 0.04 || 2.56 || 2,163.5 || 859.2 |[[Morris School District|Morris]] (9-12) ([[Sending/receiving relationship|S/R]])<br>[[Morris Plains Schools|Morris Plains]] (PK-8) | |- |[[Morris Township, New Jersey|Morris Township]] |35|| township || 22,974 || 8,502 || 15.76 || 0.14 || 15.62 || 1,428.3 || 544.4 |[[Morris School District|Morris]] || [[Convent Station, New Jersey|Convent Station]]<br />[[Washington Valley, New Jersey|Washington Valley]] |- |[[Morristown, New Jersey|Morristown]] |4|| town || 20,180 || 8,172 || 3.03 || 0.10 || 2.93 || 6,284.9 || 2,789.6 |[[Morris School District|Morris]] || |- |[[Mount Arlington, New Jersey|Mount Arlington]] |9|| borough || 5,909 || 2,545 || 2.92 || 0.75 || 2.17 || 2,325.2 || 1,171.8 |[[Roxbury School District|Roxbury]] (9-12) ([[Sending/receiving relationship|S/R]])<br>[[Mount Arlington School District|Mount Arlington]] (K-8) | |- |[[Mount Olive Township, New Jersey|Mount Olive]] |27|| township || 28,886 || 11,244 || 31.08 || 1.67 || 29.41 || 956.1 || 382.4 |[[Mount Olive Township School District|Mount Olive Township]]|| [[Budd Lake, New Jersey|Budd Lake]] CDP (9,784)<br />[[Flanders, New Jersey|Flanders]] CDP (9,832) |- |[[Mountain Lakes, New Jersey|Mountain Lakes]] |14|| borough || 4,472 || 1,363 || 2.89 || 0.27 || 2.62 || 1,590.3 || 521.1 |[[Mountain Lakes High School|Mountain Lakes]]|| |- |[[Netcong, New Jersey|Netcong]] |8|| borough || 3,375 || 1,449 || 0.92 || 0.07 || 0.84 || 3,828.4 || 1,716.4 |[[Lenape Valley Regional High School|Lenape Valley]] (9-12)<br>[[Netcong School District|Netcong]] (PK-8) | |- |[[Parsippany–Troy Hills, New Jersey|Parsippany-Troy Hills]] |32|| township || 56,162 || 21,274 || 25.39 || 1.83 || 23.56 || 2,259.3 || 902.8 |[[Parsippany–Troy Hills School District|Parsippany-Troy Hills]]|| [[Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital|Greystone Park]]<br />[[Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey|Lake Hiawatha]] CDP (10,194)<br />[[Mount Tabor, New Jersey|Mount Tabor]] CDP (part; 1,244)<br>[[Parsippany (CDP), New Jersey|Parsippany]] CDP (22,778)<br />[[Rainbow Lakes, New Jersey|Rainbow Lakes]] CDP (1,255) [[Troy Hills, New Jersey|Troy Hills]] CDP (5,081) |- |[[Pequannock Township, New Jersey|Pequannock]] |20|| township || 15,571 || 6,794 || 7.17 || 0.42 || 6.75 || 2,302.7 || 1,006.7 |[[Pequannock Township School District|Pequannock Township]]|| [[Jacksonville, Morris County, New Jersey|Jacksonville]]<br />[[Pompton Plains, New Jersey|Pompton Plains]] CDP (11,144) |- |[[Randolph, New Jersey|Randolph]] |30|| township || 26,504 || 9,343 || 21.07 || 0.25 || 20.82 || 1,235.9 || 448.7 |[[Randolph Township Schools|Randolph Township]]|| [[Ironia, New Jersey|Ironia]]<br />[[Mount Freedom, New Jersey|Mount Freedom]]<br />[[Shongum, New Jersey|Shongum]] |- |[[Riverdale, New Jersey|Riverdale]] |19|| borough || 4,107 || 1,657 || 2.09 || 0.07 || 2.01 || 1,766.5 || 822.5 |[[Pompton Lakes School District|Pompton Lakes]] (9-12) ([[Sending/receiving relationship|S/R]])<br>[[Riverdale School District (New Jersey)|Riverdale]] (PK-8) | |- |[[Rockaway, New Jersey|Rockaway Borough]] |13|| borough || 6,598 || 2,521 || 2.12 || 0.05 || 2.07 || 3,106.7 || 1,216.5 |[[Morris Hills Regional High School District|Morris Hills]] (9-12)<br>[[Rockaway Borough Public Schools|Rockaway Borough]] (PK-8) | |- |[[Rockaway Township, New Jersey|Rockaway Township]] |23|| township || 25,341 || 9,587 || 45.55 || 4.14 || 41.40 || 583.4 || 231.6 |[[Morris Hills Regional High School District|Morris Hills]] (9-12)<br>[[Rockaway Township Public Schools|Rockaway Township]] (K-8) | [[Green Pond, New Jersey|Green Pond]]<br />[[Hibernia, New Jersey|Hibernia]] CDP (208)<br />[[Lake Telemark, New Jersey|Lake Telemark]] CDP (1,172) [[Mount Hope, New Jersey|Mount Hope]] CDP (2,930)<br />[[Picatinny Arsenal]]<br />[[White Meadow Lake, New Jersey|White Meadow Lake]] CDP (8,710) |- |[[Roxbury, New Jersey|Roxbury]] |26|| township || 22,950 || 8,582 || 21.89 || 1.06 || 20.83 || 1,119.9 || 412.1 |[[Roxbury School District|Roxbury]]|| [[Flanders, New Jersey|Flanders]]<br />[[Kenvil, New Jersey|Kenvil]] CDP (1,806)<br />[[Landing, New Jersey|Landing]] CDP (4,296)<br />[[Ledgewood, New Jersey|Ledgewood]] CDP (4,903)<br>[[Lower Berkshire Valley, New Jersey|Lower Berkshire Valley]] CDP (part; 617)<br />[[Port Morris, New Jersey|Port Morris]] CDP (754)<br />[[Succasunna, New Jersey|Succasunna]] CDP (10,338) |- |[[Victory Gardens, New Jersey|Victory Gardens]] |12|| borough || 1,582 || 566 || 0.15 || 0.00 || 0.15 || 10,419.2 || 3,879.8 |[[Dover School District (New Jersey)|Dover]]|| |- |[[Washington Township, Morris County, New Jersey|Washington Township]] |28|| township || 18,197 || 6,488 || 44.77 || 0.38 || 44.39 || 417.5 || 146.2 |[[West Morris Regional High School District|West Morris]] (9-12)<br>[[Washington Township Public School District|Washington Township]] (PK-8) | [[Long Valley, New Jersey|Long Valley]] CDP (1,827)<br />[[Middle Valley, New Jersey|Middle Valley]]<br />[[Pottersville, New Jersey|Pottersville]]<br />[[Schooley's Mountain, New Jersey|Schooley's Mountain]]<br />[[Scrappy Corner, New Jersey|Scrappy Corner]] |- |[[Wharton, New Jersey|Wharton]] |10|| borough || 7,241 || 2,426 || 2.22 || 0.07 || 2.15 || 3,039.0 || 1,130.4 |[[Morris Hills Regional High School District|Morris Hills]] (9-12)<br>[[Wharton Borough School District|Wharton Borough]] (K-8) | |- |Morris | || county || 509,285 || 189,842 || 481.62 || 21.45 || 460.18 || 1,069.8 || 412.5 | || |} ===Secession from Essex County=== The municipalities of [[West Essex|western]] [[Essex County, New Jersey|Essex County]] have discussed secession from the county, to create a new county or be annexed to Morris County, spurred mainly by a belief that tax policy benefits the poorer, urban, eastern portions of the county at the expense of the wealthier, more suburban municipalities in the western part of Essex County."<ref>Pearce, Jeremy. [https://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/07/nyregion/in-essex-county-secession-gathers-momentum.html "In Essex County, Secession Gathers Momentum"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', September 7, 2003. Accessed September 23, 2016. "Montclair and Roseland both have decided to test the winds for revolution. In November, each community plans to put the secession issue before the public, in the form of a nonbinding referendum. Two years ago, Millburn posed a similar question and was bowled over at the response: 88 percent of voters agreed that the town should take steps toward leaving Essex for neighboring Morris County."</ref> Dating back to the 1960s, then-[[Livingston, New Jersey|Livingston]] Mayor William Clark had urged the township to secede from Essex County to join neighboring Morris.<ref>https://www.digifind-it.com/livingston/DATA/books/Livingston%20A%20History%20Worth%20Remembering.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=August 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YuZPy6JqutIC&q=livingston | isbn=978-0-307-55536-6 | title=A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America | date=December 24, 2008 | publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing }}</ref> Additionally, from 2001 to 2003, [[Millburn, New Jersey|Millburn]], [[Montclair, New Jersey|Montclair]] and [[Roseland, New Jersey|Roseland]] all held nonbinding ballot referendums on the issue. Then-[[Montclair, New Jersey|Montclair]] mayor Robert J. Russo gave a statement in 2003 about secession, "I've watched Essex County burden our people, with very little to show for it. We're fiscally conservative here and socially progressive – and we're finally rebelling."<ref>Pearce, Jeremy. [https://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/07/nyregion/in-essex-county-secession-gathers-momentum.html "In Essex County, Secession Gathers Momentum"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', September 7, 2003. Accessed September 23, 2016. "Montclair and Roseland both have decided to test the winds for revolution. In November, each community plans to put the secession issue before the public, in the form of a nonbinding referendum. Two years ago, Millburn posed a similar question and was bowled over at the response: 88 percent of voters agreed that the town should take steps toward leaving Essex for neighboring Morris County."</ref>
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