Mountain Lakes
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borough in Morris County, New Jersey, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- New Jersey
- County
- Morris
- Incorporated
- April 29, 1924
- Type
- Faulkner Act (council–manager)
- Body
- Borough Council
- Mayor
- Lauren Barnett ( D , term ends December 31, 2025)
- Manager
- Mitchell Stern
- Municipal clerk
- Cara Fox
- Total
- 2.91 sq mi (7.53 km )
- Land
- 2.64 sq mi (6.85 km )
- Water
- 0.27 sq mi (0.69 km ) 9.11%
- Rank
- 340th of 565 in state, 27th of 39 in county
- Elevation
- 489 ft (149 m)
- Estimate 2023
- 4,608
- Density
- 1,693.2/sq mi (653.7/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−05:00 ( Eastern (EST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC−04:00 ( Eastern (EDT) )
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Mountain Lakes is a borough in Morris County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, and a suburb of New York City. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 4,472, an increase of 312 (+7.5%) from the 2010 census count of 4,160, which in turn had reflected a decline of 96 (−2.3%) from the 4,256 recorded at the 2000 census.
Originally a planned community, the borough was named for a pair of lakes which served to distinguish Mountain Lakes as "the first year-round residential lake community in northwestern New Jersey." Mountain Lakes was incorporated as a borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 3, 1924, from portions of Boonton Township and Hanover Township, subject to the results of a referendum passed on April 29, 1924.
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