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Vinony's link graph records 126 inbound references to Lawnside, and connects out to race and ethnicity in the United States Census, Winslow and Gloucester Township.
The entry is geolocated on the map in NJ.
It sits within the topics 1926 establishments in New Jersey, African-American history of New Jersey and Borough form of New Jersey government.
Vinony links it to 32 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- New Jersey
- County
- Camden
- Incorporated
- April 20, 1926
- Type
- Borough
- Body
- Borough Council
- Mayor
- Mary Ann Wardlow ( D , term ends December 31, 2026)
- Administrator
- Angelique Rankins
- Municipal clerk
- Marsharee Wright (acting)
- Total
- 1.43 sq mi (3.70 km )
- Land
- 1.43 sq mi (3.70 km )
- Water
- 0 sq mi (0.00 km ) 0.00%
- Rank
- 459th of 565 in state, 25th of 37 in county
- Elevation
- 85 ft (26 m)
- Estimate 2023
- 3,301
- Density
- 2,065.8/sq mi (797.6/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−05:00 ( Eastern (EST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC−04:00 ( Eastern (EDT) )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- borough of New Jersey
- Official name
- Lawnside
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Camden County
- Population
- 2955
- Area
- 3.646997
- Elevation
- 85
- Time zone
- Eastern Time Zone
- Shares border with
- Barrington
- Official website
- www.lawnside.net
- Image
- Mount Peace Cemetery and Funeral Directing Company Cemetery 2012-10-20 12-19-16.jpg
- Households
- 1178
Show 5 more facts
- postal code
- 08045
- Commons category
- Lawnside, New Jersey
- water as percent of area
- 0
- per capita income
- 39113
- date of incorporation
- 1926-04-20
Sources (8)
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Encyclopedic overview
Lawnside is a borough in Camden County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Lawnside was developed in 1840 and incorporated in 1926 as the first independent, self-governing Black municipality north of the Mason–Dixon line. As of the 2020 United States census, approximately 75% of the borough's 2,955 population still identified as Black or African American, although this percentage has declined over the past two census periods. The population in 2020 had increased by 10 (+0.3%) from the 2010 census count of 2,945,
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lawnside” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.