Phillipsburg, New Jersey
Phillipsburg, New Jersey | |
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Location of Phillipsburg in Warren County highlighted in red (right). Inset map: Location of Warren County in New Jersey highlighted in orange (left). | |
Census Bureau map of Phillipsburg, New Jersey
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Location in Warren County Location in New Jersey | |
| Coordinates: 40°41′31″N 75°10′44″W / 40.691974°N 75.179006°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | New Jersey |
| County | Warren |
| Incorporated | March 8, 1861 |
| Named after | William Phillips |
| Government | |
| • Type | Faulkner Act (mayor–council) |
| • Body | Town Council |
| • Mayor | Todd M. Tersigni (R, term ends December 31, 2023) |
| • Administrator | Robert A. Bengivenga Jr. |
| • Municipal clerk | Lorraine Loudenberry (acting) |
| Area | |
• Total | 3.31 sq mi (8.58 km2) |
| • Land | 3.19 sq mi (8.26 km2) |
| • Water | 0.12 sq mi (0.31 km2) 3.66% |
| • Rank | 324th of 565 in state 19th of 22 in county |
| Elevation | 299 ft (91 m) |
| Population (2020) | |
• Total | 15,249 |
• Estimate (2023) | 15,328 |
| • Rank | 171st of 565 in state 1st of 22 in county |
| • Density | 4,778.8/sq mi (1,845.1/km2) |
| • Rank | 121st of 565 in state 1st of 22 in county |
| Time zone | UTC−05:00 (Eastern (EST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−04:00 (Eastern (EDT)) |
| ZIP Code | 08865 |
| Area code(s) | 908 exchanges: 213, 387, 454, 859, 995 |
| FIPS code | 3404158350 |
| GNIS feature ID | 0885350 |
| School district | Phillipsburg School District |
| Website | www |
Phillipsburg is a town located along the Delaware River that is the most populous municipality in Warren County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is part of the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ metropolitan statistical area. As of the 2020 United States census, the town's population was 15,249, an increase of 299 (+2.0%) from the 2010 census count of 14,950, which in turn reflected a decline of 216 (−1.4%) from the 15,166 counted in the 2000 census.
The Norfolk Southern Railway's Lehigh Line, formerly the mainline of the Lehigh Valley Railroad with a mix of mainline trackage combined long leased to the Central Railroad of New Jersey by its builder Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company, runs through Phillipsburg and then across the Delaware River into Easton, Pennsylvania. The Belvidere Delaware Railroad was leased in 1871 and later acquired by the Pennsylvania Railroad, connecting the lower Poconos to Trenton, New Jersey, and Philadelphia.
Phillipsburg is located 19.3 miles (31.1 km) northeast of Allentown, 78.9 miles (127.0 km) north of Philadelphia, and 70.1 miles (112.8 km) west of New York City.