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|subdivision_type1 = State |subdivision_name1 = |subdivision_type2 = County |subdivision_name2 = Burlington |government_footnotes = 〔 |government_type = Township |governing_body = Township Committee |leader_title = Mayor |leader_name = Jeremy Liedtka (term ends December 31, 2015)〔〔(2015 New Jersey Mayors Directory ), New Jersey Department of Community Affairs, as of October 20, 2015. Accessed November 16, 2015.〕 |leader_title1 = Clerk |leader_name1 = Caryn Hoyer〔(Clerk ), Chesterfield Township. Accessed June 18, 2012.〕 |established_title = Formed |established_date = November 6, 1688 |established_title1 = Royal charter |established_date1 = January 10, 1713 |established_title2 = Incorporated |established_date2 = February 21, 1798 |named_for = Chesterfield, England |unit_pref = Imperial |area_footnotes = 〔(2010 Census Gazetteer Files: New Jersey County Subdivisions ), United States Census Bureau. Accessed May 21, 2015.〕 |area_magnitude = |area_total_km2 = 55.735 |area_land_km2 = 55.254 |area_water_km2 = 0.481 |area_total_sq_mi = 21.520 |area_land_sq_mi = 21.334 |area_water_sq_mi = 0.186 |area_water_percent = 0.86 |area_rank = 131st of 566 in state 14th of 40 in county〔 |population_as_of = 2010 Census |population_footnotes = 〔(DP-1 - Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 for Chesterfield township, Burlington County, New Jersey ), United States Census Bureau. Accessed June 18, 2012.〕〔〔(Profile of General Demographic Characteristics: 2010 for Chesterfield township ), New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development. Accessed June 18, 2012.〕 |population_total = 7699 |population_rank = 297th of 566 in state 21st of 40 in county〔(GCT-PH1 Population, Housing Units, Area, and Density: 2010 - State -- County Subdivision from the 2010 Census Summary File 1 for New Jersey ), United States Census Bureau. Accessed December 11, 2012.〕 |population_density_km2 = 139.3 |population_density_sq_mi = 360.9 |population_density_rank = 465th of 566 in state 32nd of 40 in county〔 |population_est = 7693 |pop_est_as_of = 2014 |pop_est_footnotes = 〔 |timezone = Eastern (EST) |utc_offset = -5 |timezone_DST = Eastern (EDT) |utc_offset_DST = -4 |elevation_footnotes = 〔, Geographic Names Information System. Accessed March 5, 2013.〕 |elevation_m = |elevation_ft = 92 |coordinates_type = region:US_type:city |coordinates_region = US-NJ |coordinates_display = inline,title |coordinates_footnotes = 〔〔(US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990 ), United States Census Bureau. Accessed September 4, 2014.〕 |latd = 40.120242 |longd = -74.653491 |postal_code_type = ZIP code |postal_code = 08515 - Crosswicks〔(Look Up a ZIP Code for Chesterfield, NJ ), United States Postal Service. Accessed June 18, 2012.〕 |area_code = 609 exchanges: 291, 298〔(Area Code Lookup - NPA NXX for Chesterfield, NJ ), Area-Codes.com. Accessed September 2, 2013.〕 |blank_name = FIPS code |blank_info = 3400512670〔〔(American FactFinder ), United States Census Bureau. Accessed September 4, 2014.〕〔(A Cure for the Common Codes: New Jersey ), Missouri Census Data Center. Accessed June 18, 2012.〕 |blank1_name = GNIS feature ID |blank1_info = 0882109〔〔(US Board on Geographic Names ), United States Geological Survey. Accessed September 4, 2014.〕 |website = |footnotes = }} Chesterfield Township is a township in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township's population was 7,699,〔〔〔 reflecting an increase of 1,744 (+29.3%) from the 5,955 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 803 (+15.6%) from the 5,152 counted in the 1990 Census.〔(Table 7. Population for the Counties and Municipalities in New Jersey: 1990, 2000 and 2010 ), New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development, February 2011. Accessed June 18, 2012.〕 Chesterfield has permanently preserved more than of farmland through state and county programs and a township-wide transfer of development credits program that directs future growth to a designated "receiving area" known as Old York Village, which is a neo-traditional, New Urbanism community built on incorporating a variety of housing types, neighborhood commercial facilities, a new elementary school, civic uses, and active and passive open space areas with preserved agricultural land surrounding the planned village. Construction began in the early 2000s and a significant percentage of the community is now complete. Old York Village was the winner of the American Planning Association's National Outstanding Planning Award in 2004.〔("Old York Village, Chesterfield Wins an American Planning Association Award for an Outstanding Project/ Program/ Tool" )〕〔("Old York Village Implementing Smart Growth" )〕〔("Master Plan Amendment: Township of Chesterfield" )〕 == History == The land was first settled in 1677, when a group of primarily Quaker immigrants from England established the settlement of Crosswicks, the oldest of the three communities of the township. The village was named after the Crosswicks Creek that separates Burlington and Mercer counties.〔Staff. ("Chesterfield: Fields of dreams" ), ''Courier-Post'', October 18, 2006. Accessed June 18, 2012.〕 The other two villages were Recklesstown (now Chesterfield) and Plattsburg (now Sykesville).〔Henry Charlton Beck: More Forgotten Towns of Southern New Jersey; Rutgers University Press, 1963, p. 199〕 Recklesstown was named in honor of one of its founders, Joseph Reckless, until the community's name was changed in 1888 at the urging of a Congressman and local resident in the face of public scorn.〔(Chesterfield Township: Recklesstown Historic District ), accessed April 26, 2007. "What is now the unincorporated village of Chesterfield was known as Recklesstown in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Its name derived not from the behavior of its inhabitants, but from one of its founders, Joseph Reckless. The name was changed in 1888, when the then Congressman for the district, himself a resident of the village, thought it an object of ridicule."〕 Chesterfield Township was originally formed on November 6, 1688. It was named after the 2nd Earl of Chesterfield whose seat of Chesterfield was in Derbyshire, where many of the township’s earliest settlers had lived.〔Hutchinson, Viola L. (''The Origin of New Jersey Place Names'' ), New Jersey Public Library Commission, May 1945. Accessed August 28, 2015.〕 The township was reformed by Royal charter on January 10, 1713, and was incorporated as one of New Jersey's initial 104 townships by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 21, 1798. Portions of the township were taken to form New Hanover Township (December 2, 1723) and Bordentown borough (December 9, 1825).〔Snyder, John P. (''The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries: 1606-1968'' ), Bureau of Geology and Topography; Trenton, New Jersey; 1969. p. 95. Accessed June 18, 2012.〕 Crosswicks played a role during the American Revolutionary War. On June 23, 1778, British soldiers near the Crosswicks Creek shot the horse out from under Elias Dayton, a captain with the New Jersey militia. A cannonball from the period remains lodged in the side of the Friends Meeting House.〔(Northern Loop Tour Page 2 ), Burlington County, New Jersey. Accessed June 18, 2012.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chesterfield Township, New Jersey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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