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New Providence (N.J.)

LC control no.n 82070720
Geographic headingNew Providence (N.J.)
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Geographic subdivision usageNew Jersey--New Providence
Variant(s)New Providence, N.J.
See alsoTurkey (N.J.)
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Found inPrice and Lee Company, inc. New map of borough ... 1955.
NUCMC data from New Jersey Historical Soc. for Merchants' papers, 1713-1888 (Turkey, N.J.; later New Providence, N.J.)
History of Union County, N.J., 1923: p. 433 (name chgd. from Turkey 1778 when people escaped injury in collapse of house of worship which was considered a remarkable interposition of Providence and in commemoration of that event the town was named New Providence, which was inc. in 1809)
GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009 (ppl; 40°41ʹ54ʺN 074°24ʹ06ʺW)
Geographic area coden-us-nj