Silver Hill (New Jersey)

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Silver Hill
Highest point
Elevation 722 ft (220 m)   NGVD 29 [1]
Coordinates 40°38′37″N75°07′20″W / 40.6437113°N 75.1221183°W / 40.6437113; -75.1221183 Coordinates: 40°38′37″N75°07′20″W / 40.6437113°N 75.1221183°W / 40.6437113; -75.1221183 [2]  
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Silver Hill is a mountain in Warren County, New Jersey. It is located in the southeastern portion of Pohatcong Township; the main summit rises to 722 feet (220 m).

Warren County, New Jersey county in New Jersey

Warren County is a county located in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2017 Census estimate, the county's population was 106,798, making it the 19th-most populous of the state's 21 counties, representing a decrease of 1.7% from the 108,692 enumerated in the 2010 United States Census, in turn having increased by 6,255 (+6.1%) from 102,437 counted at the 2000 Census, Its county seat is Belvidere. It is part of the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ metropolitan area and is generally considered the eastern border of the Lehigh Valley. It is considered part of the New York-Newark, NY-NJ-CT-PA Combined Statistical Area, and shares its eastern border with the New York City Metropolitan Area, with its northwestern section bordering The Poconos. The most populous place was Phillipsburg, with 14,950 residents at the time of the 2010 Census, while Hardwick Township, covered 37.92 square miles (98.2 km2), the largest total area of any municipality.

New Jersey State of the United States of America

New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the Northeastern United States. It is a peninsula, bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, particularly along the extent of the length of New York City on its western edge; on the east, southeast, and south by the Atlantic Ocean; on the west by the Delaware River and Pennsylvania; and on the southwest by the Delaware Bay and Delaware. New Jersey is the fourth-smallest state by area but the 11th-most populous, with 9 million residents as of 2017, and the most densely populated of the 50 U.S. states; its biggest city is Newark. New Jersey lies completely within the combined statistical areas of New York City and Philadelphia and was the second-wealthiest U.S. state by median household income as of 2017.

Pohatcong Township, New Jersey Township

Pohatcong Township is a township in Warren County, New Jersey, United States, located in the easternmost region of the Lehigh Valley. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township's population was 3,339, reflecting a decline of 77 (-2.3%) from the 3,416 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn declined by 175 (-4.9%) from the 3,591 counted in the 1990 Census. The name Pohatcong is said to be from the Lenni Lenape Native American term meaning "stream between split hills".

Silver Hill may be considered an isolated outlier of Pohatcong Mountain; like Pohatcong Mountain it divides the watersheds of Pohatcong Creek on its northwestern flank and the Musconetcong River on its southeastern flank.

Pohatcong Mountain mountain in United States of America

Pohatcong Mountain is a ridge, approximately 6 mi (10 km) long, in the Appalachian Mountains of northwestern New Jersey in the United States. It extends from west Phillipsburg northeast approximately to Allamuchy Township, New Jersey. The ridge continues on north past Washington as Upper Pohatcong Mountain. The term "Pohatcong Mountain" is sometimes taken to include both mountains. The ridge is approximately 800 ft high along much of its length.

Pohatcong Creek is a 30.7-mile-long (49.4 km) tributary of the Delaware River in northwestern New Jersey in the United States.

Musconetcong River river in the United States of America

The Musconetcong River is a 45.7-mile-long (73.5 km) tributary of the Delaware River in northwestern New Jersey in the United States. It flows through the rural mountainous country of northwestern New Jersey. Part of it is a National Wild and Scenic River.

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Pangaion Hills mountain

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Columbia Mountains mountain range in Canada

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Baker Mountain is a mountain ridge in southeastern Hampshire County, West Virginia. The mountain runs southwest northeast between Yellow Spring and the Hardy County line. Baker Mountain is flanked to its east by the Cacapon River with West Virginia Route 259 running parallel between the two. Its forests were once used as a major source of timber for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's rail ties. For this reason, the Winchester and Western Railroad was constructed through the Capon Valley in the 1920s to haul the timber harvested in the region to Winchester, Virginia for railroad tie production. The communities of Capon Lake and Intermont lie at the foot of Baker Mountain on the Cacapon.

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Schooleys Mountain mountain in United States of America

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Upper Pohatcong, New Jersey Census-designated place in New Jersey, United States

Upper Pohatcong is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) located within Pohatcong Township in Warren County, New Jersey, United States, that was defined as part of the 2010 United States Census. As of the 2010 Census, the CDP's population was 1,781.

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References

  1. ↑ Verified elevation from USGS topographic map Bloomsbury
  2. ↑ "Silver Hill". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . Retrieved 2014-04-07.


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