Editing Bloomfield, New Jersey (section)

==Geography==
According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the township had a total area of 5.36 square miles (13.88&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>), including 5.34 square miles (13.82&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>) of land and 0.02 square miles (0.06&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>) of water (0.45%).<ref name=CensusArea/><ref name=GR1 />

[[Silver Lake, Essex County, New Jersey|Silver Lake]] (2010 total population of 4,243<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://archive.today/20200212140130/http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_DP/DPDP1/1600000US3467590 DP-1 - Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data for Silver Lake - Essex CDP, New Jersey]}}, [[United States Census Bureau]]. Accessed November 4, 2012.</ref>) is an [[Local government in New Jersey#Unincorporated communities|unincorporated community]] and [[census-designated place]] (CDP) defined by the [[United States Census Bureau]] as of the 2010 Census that is split between [[Belleville, New Jersey|Belleville]] (with 3,769 of the CDP's residents) and Bloomfield (474 of the total).<ref name=CPH232>[https://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/cph-2-32.pdf#page=19 New Jersey: 2010 - Population and Housing Unit Counts - 2010 Census of Population and Housing (CPH-2-32)], [[United States Census Bureau]], August 2012, p. III-3. Accessed November 4, 2012. "Silver Lake (formed from parts of deleted whole-township Belleville and Bloomfield CDPs)"</ref> [[Brookdale, New Jersey|Brookdale]] (2010 population of 9,239<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://archive.today/20200212135151/http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_DP/DPDP1/1600000US3408110 DP-1 - Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data for Brookdale CDP, New Jersey]}}, [[United States Census Bureau]]. Accessed November 4, 2012.</ref>) is a CDP located entirely within Bloomfield.<ref name=CPH232/> [[Watsessing, New Jersey|Watsessing]] and [[Ampere North, New Jersey|Ampere North]] are CDPs in the southern part of the township that were first listed prior to the [[2020 United States census|2020 census]].

[[Local government in New Jersey#Unincorporated communities|Unincorporated communities]], localities and place names located partially or completely within the township include Halycon.<ref>[http://www.state.nj.us/infobank/localnames.txt Locality Search], State of [[New Jersey]]. Accessed May 22, 2015.</ref> Bloomfield is in the [[New York metropolitan area]].

The township borders the municipalities of [[Belleville, New Jersey|Belleville]], [[East Orange, New Jersey|East Orange]], [[Glen Ridge, New Jersey|Glen Ridge]], [[Montclair, New Jersey|Montclair]], [[Newark, New Jersey|Newark]] and [[Nutley, New Jersey|Nutley]] in [[Essex County, New Jersey|Essex County]]; and [[Clifton, New Jersey|Clifton]] in [[Passaic County, New Jersey|Passaic County]].<ref>[https://global.mapit.mysociety.org/area/838007/touches.html Areas touching Bloomfield], MapIt. Accessed March 19, 2020.</ref><ref>[http://www.essexregister.com/municipalities/ Municipalities], [[Essex County, New Jersey]] Register of Deeds and Mortgages. Accessed March 19, 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>