Hazlet Township, New Jersey
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 Location in New Jersey
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| Basic data | |
| Foundation : | February 25, 1848 |
| State : | United States |
| State : | New Jersey |
| County : | Monmouth County |
| Coordinates : | 40 ° 26 ′ N , 74 ° 10 ′ W |
| Time zone : | Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 ) |
| Residents : | 21,046 (as of 2007) |
| Population density : | 1,441.5 inhabitants per km 2 |
| Area : | 14.7 km 2 (approx. 6 mi 2 ) of which 14.6 km 2 (approx. 6 mi 2 ) is land |
| Height : | 7 m |
| Postal code : | 07730 |
| Area code : | +1 732 |
| FIPS : | 34-30690 |
| GNIS ID : | 0882120 |
| Website : | www.hazlettwp.org |
| Mayor : | James DiNardo |
Hazlet is a township in the state of New Jersey in the United States of America . It is located some 50 km south-west of New York City in the northern part of the New York metropolitan area belonging Monmouth County . Hazlet has about 21,000 inhabitants on an area of 14.7 km².
location
Hazlet is located south of Raritan Bay , a bay in the Atlantic Ocean with the New York borough of Staten Island on the north bank . However, the municipality does not extend directly to the sea. The Garden State Parkway runs through Hazlet . In addition, the place has a train station on the North Jersey Coast Line , from where there are regular train connections to New York, among others.
history
The township was founded on February 25, 1848 as Raritan Township . Previously, the area belonged to the east neighboring Middletown Township . On November 28, 1967, it was renamed Hazlet as a result of a referendum in honor of the entrepreneur John Hazlett .
In 1940 the community still had fewer than 2,000 inhabitants, in 1950 there were just under 3,000, in 1960 more than 15,000 and since the 1970s Hazlet has a population of over 20,000.