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Shamong Township, New Jersey

1852 establishments in New JerseyPopulated places established in 1852Populated places in the Pine Barrens (New Jersey)Shamong Township, New JerseyTownship form of New Jersey government
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ATSION VILLAGE, BURLINGTON COUNTY, NEW JERSEY
ATSION VILLAGE, BURLINGTON COUNTY, NEW JERSEY

Shamong Township is a township in Burlington County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 6,460, a decrease of 30 (−0.5%) from the 2010 census count of 6,490, which in turn reflected an increase of 28 (+0.4%) from the 6,462 counted in the 2000 census. The township, and all of Burlington County, is a part of the Philadelphia-Reading-Camden combined statistical area and the Delaware Valley.Shamong was incorporated as a township by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 19, 1852, from portions of Medford, Southampton and Washington townships. Portions of the township were taken to form Woodland Township (March 7, 1866) and Tabernacle Township (March 22, 1901). In April 1902, portions of Hammonton and Waterford Township were annexed to the township. The township's name comes from Native American terms meaning "place of the big horn", from the words oschummo ("horn") and onk ("place").New Jersey Monthly magazine ranked Shamong Township as its 6th best place to live in its 2008 rankings of the "Best Places To Live" in New Jersey.

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ATSION VILLAGE, BURLINGTON COUNTY, NEW JERSEY
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