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Princeton Township

dissolved township in Mercer County, New Jersey, United States
Administrative Area Former Municipality of the United States Q2396806

Facts

13 properties

Identity

Instance of
former municipality of the United States, township of New Jersey (?–2013)[4]
Inception
1838[8]

Location

Country
United States[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 40.357°, -74.670°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Mercer County[2]

Population and size

Area
16.520 sq mi[14]
Elevation above sea level
61 m[13]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 61 m GeoNames 43 m edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
Population
16,265 (2010)[10]

Codes

Local dialing code
609[7]
More facts +4
Different from
Princeton, Borough of Princeton, Princeton[11][12]
Dissolved, abolished or demolished
2013[9]
Merged into
Princeton (2013)[15]
Twinned administrative body
Pettoranello del Molise, Colmar[5][6]
🏷️ Also known as
en Princeton, New Jersey en Princeton Township en Princeton Township, New Jersey en Princeton Township, NJ en Township of Princeton es Municipio de Princeton it Princeton ru Принстон zh 普林斯顿镇区 zh-hant 普林斯頓鎮區
🔖 Identifiers · 13
VIAF cluster ID
131404300
Library of Congress Authorities ID
n84195809
ArchINFORM location ID
36295
BabelNet ID
00420629n
FAST ID
1332525
FIPS 55-3 (locations in the US)
34-60915
Freebase ID
/m/0xp6s
GNIS Feature ID
882125
GeoNames ID
5102959
Instagram location ID
266182437
J9U entity ID
987007557773005171
OBO Gazetteer ID
00158198
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Yale LUX ID
place/112b0058-4b1b-4f86-bb6e-4e7b0b818cdb

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🔗 Connections
Different from 3
Princeton, Princeton, Borough of Princeton
People who died here 3
Carl Gustav Hempel, Archibald Alexander, Joseph Addison Alexander
← Different from 3
Princeton, Princeton, Borough of Princeton
Twinned administrative body 2
Colmar, Pettoranello del Molise
Contained subdivisions 1
Princeton University
Country 1
United States
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Mercer County
Located in time zone 1
Eastern Time Zone
Merged into 1
Princeton
← Twinned administrative body 1
Pettoranello del Molise
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Summary

Princeton Township is a former municipality of the United States[1].

Related Entities

Carl Gustav Hempel Colmar Pettoranello del Molise United States

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Library of Congress Name Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [2] ↑ . Library of Congress Name Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . Library of Congress Name Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . whyy.org. Retrieved . whyy.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . 2010 United States Census. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . Library of Congress Name Authority File. Retrieved . whyy.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . Library of Congress Name Authority File. Retrieved . whyy.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . whyy.org. Retrieved . whyy.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 16w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-07-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Official website → http://www.princetontwp.org/
    Dissolved, abolished or demolished → January 1, 2013
    Coordinate location → 40.357°, -74.670°
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Mercer County
    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #43521: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
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