Editing Newton, New Jersey (section)

==Infrastructure==
[[File:2018-07-26 15 59 38 View south along U.S. Route 206, New Jersey State Route 94 and Sussex County Route 519 (Water Street) at Mill Street in Newton, Sussex County, New Jersey.jpg|thumb|right|View south along [[U.S. Route 206]], [[New Jersey Route 94|Route 94]] and [[County Route 519 (New Jersey)|County Route 519]] in Newton]]

===Roads and highways===
{{As of|2010|5}}, the town had a total of {{convert|28.75|mi}} of roadways, of which {{convert|21.18|mi}} were maintained by the municipality, {{convert|4.47|mi}} by Sussex County and {{convert|3.10|mi}} by the [[New Jersey Department of Transportation]].<ref>[http://www.state.nj.us/transportation/refdata/sldiag/mileage_Sussex.pdf Sussex County Mileage by Municipality and Jurisdiction], [[New Jersey Department of Transportation]], May 2010. Accessed July 18, 2014.</ref>

Newton is located at the intersection of [[U.S. Route 206]] (known within Newton as Woodside Avenue, Main Street, and Water Street), [[New Jersey Route 94]] (known within Newton as High Street and Water Street), and [[County Route 519 (New Jersey)|County Route 519]] (known within Newton as West End Avenue and Mill Street) and [[County Route 616 (Sussex County, New Jersey)|County Route 616]] (known within Newton as Spring Street and Sparta Avenue).<ref>[http://www.state.nj.us/transportation/refdata/sldiag/00000094__-.pdf#page=8 Route 94 Straight Line Diagram], [[New Jersey Department of Transportation]]. Accessed October 25, 2013.</ref> [[Interstate 80 in New Jersey|Interstate 80]] is accessible approximately {{convert|13|mi}} to the south.

===Public transportation===
The nearest [[NJ Transit]] rail station is [[Netcong station|Netcong]], approximately {{convert|12|miles}} to the south.

[[Lakeland Bus Lines]] provides limited service between Newton and the [[Port Authority Bus Terminal]] in [[Midtown Manhattan]].<ref>[http://www.lakelandbus.com/m/bus_schedule.php?route=80-east Route 80 - Eastbound to New York; Monday - Friday], [[Lakeland Bus Lines]]. Accessed August 1, 2018.</ref>

Local bus service is provided by the Skylands Connect bus, which connects to Sparta, Hamburg, and Sussex.<ref>[http://www.sussex.nj.us/cit-e-access/webpage.cfm?TID=7&TPID=12813 Skylands Connect], Sussex County, New Jersey. Accessed September 18, 2014.</ref>

===Aviation===
[[Newton Airport (New Jersey)|Newton Airport]] was a public-use [[airport]] located {{convert|3|mi|km}} south of the [[central business district]]. The airport closed in 2013.<ref>[http://www.state.nj.us/transportation/airwater/aviation/pdf/airportdir/Newton.pdf Newton Airport], [[New Jersey Department of Transportation]]. Accessed February 24, 2013.</ref>

===Health care===
Newton Memorial Hospital opened in the early 1930s during the [[Great Depression]]. The medical center was established using funds from a willed gift of $35,000 from Thomas Murray (to be specifically used to establish a hospital in Newton) and a $100,000 bequest from Clarence Linn. The hospital "is a short-term, fully accredited, 146-bed acute care, not-for-profit hospital serving more than 250,000 people in Warren and Sussex counties in New Jersey, Pike County in Pennsylvania and southern Orange County in New York."<ref>[http://www.atlantichealth.org/atlantic/about+atlantic+health About Us]. Atlantic Health System. Accessed September 10, 2015.</ref> Newton Memorial Hospital was bought by Atlantic Health System and changed its name to Newton Medical Center in 2011.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20170519223456/http://www.atlantichealth.org/atlantic/media-center/press-releases/may11-namechange.html "Atlantic Health System Announces New Names for its Three Hospitals 'Medical Centers' Reflect Wide Breadth of Advanced Services, High Quality of Care Across Multiple Campuses"], Atlantic Health System, press release dated May 9, 2011. Accessed July 31, 2018. "Newton Memorial Hospital in Newton, N.J., will now be known as Newton Medical Center"</ref>