Egg Harbor Township is a township in Atlantic County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the township’s population was 47,842, its highest decennial tally up ever and an buildup of 4,519 (+10.4%) from the 2010 census augment of 43,323, which in slant reflected an accrual of 12,597 (+41.0%) from the 30,726 counted in the 2000 census.
Egg Harbor Township was first mentioned as part of Gloucester County in archives dating urge on to March 20, 1693, and at period was called New Weymouth. The township’s western boundary was established on May 13, 1761, with the Place called Great Egg-Harbour Township. Portions of the township were taken to form Galloway Township, which was established by Royal charter upon April 4, 1774. Additional portions were taken to form Weymouth Township upon February 12, 1798. On February 21, 1798, the Place was incorporated as Egg-Harbour Township. Over the ensuing centuries, portions of the township were taken to create many supplementary municipalities: Hamilton Township upon February 5, 1813; Atlantic City on May 1, 1854; Absecon on May 1, 1854; South Atlantic City (now Margate City) on September 7, 1885; Pleasantville on January 10, 1889; Linwood upon February 20, 1889; Somers Point on April 24, 1886; Longport upon March 7, 1898; Ventnor City upon March 17, 1903; and Northfield upon March 21, 1905. Geographically, the township, and everything of Atlantic County, is part of the South Jersey region and of the Atlantic City-Hammonton metropolitan statistical area, which in point of view is included in the Philadelphia-Reading-Camden accumulate statistical Place and the Delaware Valley.
Great Egg Harbor got its pronounce from Dutch voyager Cornelius Jacobsen Mey. In 1614, Mey came on the inlet to the Great Egg Harbor River. The meadows were appropriately covered in the proclaim of the eggs of waterfowl and shorebirds that he called it “Eieren Haven” (Egg Harbor).
