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The Raritan River is a major river of central New Jersey in the United States. Its watershed drains much of the mountainous area of the central part of the state, emptying into the Raritan Bay on the Atlantic Ocean. Official language(s) None defined, English de facto Capital Trenton Largest city Newark Area - Total - Width - Length - % water - Latitude - Longitude Ranked 47th 22,608 km² 110 km 240 km 14. ...
Raritan Bay is a triangular bay in the western portion of Lower New York Bay, between the U.S. states of New York and New Jersey. ...
 South Branch of Raritan River, Clinton, NJ Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1544x1158, 827 KB)Raritan River, South Branch, Clinton, NJ This image has been (or is hereby) released into the public domain by its creator, ekem. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1544x1158, 827 KB)Raritan River, South Branch, Clinton, NJ This image has been (or is hereby) released into the public domain by its creator, ekem. ...
Description The river forms at the confluence of the North and South Branches just west of Somerville. It flows for approximately 16 miles before slowing in tidewater at New Brunswick, and its estuary extends 14 more miles entering the western end of Raritan Bay at Perth Amboy. The North Branch Raritan River is a tributary of the Raritan River in central New Jersey in the United States. ...
The South Branch Raritan River is a tributary of the Raritan River in central New Jersey in the United States. ...
9/11 Memorial and Court House, Somerville, NJ Somerville is a Borough located in Somerset County, New Jersey. ...
New Brunswick is a City located in Middlesex County, New Jersey, 31 miles (50 km) southwest of New York City on the Raritan River about 15 miles (24 km) from its mouth. ...
Estuaries and coastal waters are among the most productive ecosystems on Earth, providing numerous ecological, economic, cultural, and aesthetic benefits and services. ...
Raritan Bay is a triangular bay in the western portion of Lower New York Bay, between the U.S. states of New York and New Jersey. ...
Perth Amboy is a City located in Middlesex County, New Jersey. ...
The river has served an important water transportation route since the days of the Lenape Native Americans. The name itself comes from an Algonquian word meaning "stream overflows." The name is also applied to the Raritan people, an Algonquian tribe that inhabited Staten Island, near the river's mouth. In colonial days, the river allowed the development of early industry around New Brunswick, as well as the transportation of agricultural materials from central New Jersey. During the American Revolutionary War, the river provided a means for troop conveyance. The construction of the Delaware and Raritan Canal provided a critical link between New York City and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on the Delaware River. The Lenape or Lenni-Lenape (later named Delaware Indians by Europeans) were, in the 1600s, loosely organized bands of Native American people practicing small-scale agriculture to augment a largely mobile hunter-gatherer society in the region around the Delaware River, the lower Hudson River, and western Long Island Sound. ...
An Atsina named Assiniboin Boy Native Americans in the United States (also known as Indians, American Indians, First Americans, Indigenous Peoples, Aboriginal Peoples, Aboriginal Americans, Amerindians, Amerinds, or Original Americans) are the indigenous peoples within the territory that is now encompassed by the continental United States and their descendants in...
Pre-contact distribution of Algonquian languages The Algonquian (also Algonkian) languages are a subfamily of Native American languages that includes most of the languages in the Algic language family (the two Algic languages that are not Algonquian are Wiyot and Yurok of northwestern California). ...
The Raritan people were a tribe of Lenape Indians who inhabited the areas around the present Raritan Bay in northern New Jersey and Staten Island, New York. ...
Algonquian Indians are one of the most populous and widespread North American Native groups, with tribes originally numbering in the hundreds, and hundreds of thousands who still identify with various Algonquian peoples. ...
Staten Island lies to the southwest of the rest of New York City. ...
Combatants American Revolutionaries, France, Netherlands, Spain, allies British Empire, allies Commanders George Washington Comte de Rochambeau Nathanael Greene William Howe Henry Clinton Charles Cornwallis The American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), also known as the American War of Independence, was the military component of the American Revolution. ...
The Delaware and Raritan Canal (D&R Canal) was a canal in central New Jersey that served to connect the Delaware River to the Raritan River. ...
Nickname: The Big Apple Official website: City of New York Government Counties (Boroughs) Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Geographical characteristics Area Total 468. ...
Nickname: City of Brotherly Love Motto: Philadelphia maneto (Let brotherly love continue) Official website: http://www. ...
Delaware River Watershed The Delaware River is a river on the Atlantic coast of the United States. ...
The river is also used for recreational boating, including use by the rowing team of Rutgers University in New Brunswick. The river is mentioned in the song On the Banks of the Old Raritan of Rutgers. The musical 1776 mentions troops bathing in the Raritan River. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey is the largest institution for higher education in the U.S. state of New Jersey. ...
1776 is the title of a 1969 Broadway musical and its 1972 film version. ...
Geologists believe that approximately 6,000 years ago the lower Raritan provided the course of the mouth of the Hudson River. Following the end of the last ice age, the Narrows had not yet been formed and the Hudson flowed along the Watchung Mountains to present-day Bound Brook, then followed the course of the Raritan eastward into Lower New York Bay. A geologist is a contributor to the science of geology, studying the physical structure and processes of the Earth. ...
View of the Hudson in the 1880s showing Jersey City The Hudson River, called Muh-he-kun-ne-tuk in Mahican, is a river running mainly through New York State but partly forming the boundary between the states of New York and New Jersey. ...
Variations in CO2, temperature and dust from the Vostok ice core over the last 400 000 years For the animated movie, see Ice Age (movie). ...
New York Harbor, as seen in a TERRA satellite image. ...
The Watchung Mountains are a pair of two long low ridge lateral morraines formed by glaciers in the most recent ice age, between 400 ft. ...
Map showing location of Bound Brook in Somerset County Bound Brook is a borough located in Somerset County, New Jersey. ...
Lower New York Bay is the section of New York Bay outside of the Narrows and open directly to the Atlantic Ocean. ...
Near its mouth by Perth Amboy the river is spanned by the Victory Bridge which carries New Jersey State Route 35, the Driscoll Bridge, which carries the Garden State Parkway, the Edison Bridge, which carries U.S. Route 9 and a NJ Transit railroad bridge over the river. New Jersey State Highway 35 is a state highway along New Jerseys Atlantic coast. ...
The Driscoll Bridge is a bridge on the Garden State Parkway in the U.S. state of New Jersey spanning the Raritan River near its mouth in Raritan Bay. ...
The Garden State Parkway is a 172-mile (277-km) limited-access toll parkway that stretches the length of New Jersey from the New York Thruway at Montvale, New Jersey, to Cape May at the southern tip of the state. ...
The Edison Bridge is a bridge on U.S. Route 9 in the U.S. state of New Jersey spanning the Raritan River near its mouth in Raritan Bay. ...
U.S. Highway 9 is a north-south United States highway in the states of Delaware, New Jersey, and New York in the United States. ...
New Jersey Transit Arrow III at West Windsor, NJ Hudson-Bergen Light Rail vehicle at 2nd Street station New Jersey Transit (NJ Transit) is a statewide public transportation system serving the U.S. state of New Jersey. ...
Flooding Problems The Raritan River has persistent flooding problems when excessive rain from storms affects the river basin, especially tropical storms. The flooding problems mainly affect the town of Bound Brook, which is partially built on a natural flood plain at the junction of several tributaries, and Manville, which has a large neighborhood known as Lost Valley that lies on the flood plain between the Raritan River and its largest tributary river, which is known as the Millstone River. Other towns in the Raritan River basin also experience flooding to a lesser degree. Map showing location of Bound Brook in Somerset County Bound Brook is a borough located in Somerset County, New Jersey. ...
Manville is a borough located in Somerset County, New Jersey. ...
The Millstone River is a tributary of the Raritan River in central New Jersey in the United States. ...
Record flooding in the aftermath of Hurricane Floyd in September 1999 caused renewed interest in a flood control project called the Green Brook Flood Control Project, which will essentially protect Bound Brook from a 100- to 500-year flood. Two levees have been built on the perimeter of Bound Brook, but the main levee necessary to keep the Raritan River from flooding the town has not been built as of early 2006 and is not scheduled to be completed for at least another five years. Hurricane Floyd was the sixth named storm, fourth hurricane, and third major hurricane in the 1999 Atlantic hurricane season. ...
Green Brook Flood Control is a flood control project in Somerset County in central New Jersey first proposed in the early 1970s in the wake of two major flooding events: Hurricane Agnes in June 1971 and a major flood in August 1973, which ravaged the Green Brook and Raritan basins...
Communities on the Raritan (In alphabetical order) Map showing location of Bound Brook in Somerset County Bound Brook is a borough located in Somerset County, New Jersey. ...
Thirteen Star Flag at the site of the former Middlebrook encampment in Bridgewater is displayed continuously Bridgewater Township is a Township located in Somerset County, New Jersey. ...
East Brunswick Township is a suburban Township located in Middlesex County, New Jersey near the Raritan River. ...
The Edison Memorial Tower, one of Edison Townships notable landmarks. ...
Franklin Township is a township located in Somerset County, New Jersey. ...
Highland Park is a borough located in Middlesex County, New Jersey. ...
Manville is a borough located in Somerset County, New Jersey. ...
New Brunswick is a City located in Middlesex County, New Jersey, 31 miles (50 km) southwest of New York City on the Raritan River about 15 miles (24 km) from its mouth. ...
Perth Amboy is a City located in Middlesex County, New Jersey. ...
Piscataway Township (pronounced Pis-CAT-a-way) is a Township located in Middlesex County, New Jersey. ...
Raritan is a borough located in Somerset County, New Jersey. ...
Sayreville is a borough located on the Raritan River, near Raritan Bay in Middlesex County, New Jersey. ...
9/11 Memorial and Court House, Somerville, NJ Somerville is a Borough located in Somerset County, New Jersey. ...
South Amboy is a city located in Middlesex County, New Jersey. ...
South Bound Brook is a borough located in Somerset County, New Jersey. ...
South River is a Borough located in Middlesex County, New Jersey. ...
Tributaries Green Brook is a tributary of the Raritan River in central New Jersey in the United States. ...
Lawrence Brook is a tributary of the Raritan River in Middlesex County, New Jersey in the United States. ...
The Millstone River is a tributary of the Raritan River in central New Jersey in the United States. ...
The North Branch Raritan River is a tributary of the Raritan River in central New Jersey in the United States. ...
The South Branch Raritan River is a tributary of the Raritan River in central New Jersey in the United States. ...
The South River is a tributary of the Raritan River in central New Jersey in the United States. ...
See also This is a list of rivers in New Jersey in the United States. ...
Raritan Bay is a triangular bay in the western portion of Lower New York Bay, between the U.S. states of New York and New Jersey. ...
A colorized depiction of the Hudson Canyon off the coast of New York and New Jersey at the outlet of the Hudson River. ...
Sandy Hook Bay is a triangular arm of Raritan Bay, along the coast of northern New Jersey in the United States. ...
The Arthur Kill, seen from Staten Island, with Carteret, New Jersey in the background. ...
The Delaware and Raritan Canal (D&R Canal) was a canal in central New Jersey that served to connect the Delaware River to the Raritan River. ...
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