Centre Township, New Jersey

{{USCensusPop

| 1860= 1305

| 1870= 1718

| 1880= 1538

| 1890= 1834

| 1900= 2192

| 1910= 3200 | 1910n=*

| 1920= 4004 | 1920n=*

| footnote=Population sources:1850-1900Barnett, Bob. [http://westjersey.org/popcam_04.htm Population Data for Camden County Municipalities, 1850 - 2000], WestJersey.org, January 6, 2011. Accessed September 24, 2013.
1850-1920[http://dspace.njstatelib.org/xmlui/handle/10929/25218?show=full Compendium of censuses 1726-1905: together with the tabulated returns of 1905] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140629224000/https://dspace.njstatelib.org/xmlui/handle/10929/25218?show=full |date=2014-06-29 }}, New Jersey Department of State, 1906. Accessed September 24, 2013. 1860-1870Raum, John O. [https://books.google.com/books?id=5qZ4AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA279 The History of New Jersey: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Volume 1], p. 279, J. E. Potter and company, 1877. Accessed September 25, 2013. "Center township contained in 1860 1,305, inhabitants and in 1870, 1,718."
1870Staff. [https://books.google.com/books?id=gNwIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA259 A compendium of the ninth census, 1870], p. 259. United States Census Bureau, 1872. Accessed September 24, 2013. 1880-1890Porter, Robert Percival. [https://books.google.com/books?id=8gUkQkJdLpsC&pg=PA97 Preliminary Results as Contained in the Eleventh Census Bulletins: Volume III - 51 to 75], p. 97. United States Census Bureau, 1890. Accessed September 24, 2013.
1890-1910[https://books.google.com/books?id=T9HrAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA336 Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910: Population by Counties and Minor Civil Divisions, 1910, 1900, 1890], United States Census Bureau, p. 336. Accessed September 25, 2013. 1910-1930[https://books.google.com/books?id=kifRAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA715 "Fifteenth Census of the United States: 1930 - Population Volume I"], United States Census Bureau, p. 715. Accessed September 25, 2013. Data for 1910 and 1920 for Centre Township is listed in footnote 4.

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Centre Township was a township that existed in Camden County, New Jersey from 1855 through 1926.

Centre Township was incorporated as a township by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 6, 1855, from portions of the now-defunct Union Township:Snyder, John P. [http://www.state.nj.us/dep/njgs/enviroed/oldpubs/bulletin67.pdf The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries: 1606-1968], Bureau of Geology and Topography; Trenton, New Jersey; 1969. p. 104. Accessed November 3, 2012. {{quote|"Beginning in the middle of Great Timber Creek at the mouth of the southerly branch of Little Timber Creek; thence along the middle of Little Timber Creek to a point where the old King’s Highway crossed the same; thence northerly along the highway to the southwest corner of Cedar Grove Cemetery and corner of James H. Brick’s land; thence along said line and by the lands of Aaron H. Hurley, crossing the Mt. Ephraim Road to the corner of the lands of John Brick, deceased; thence along the lands of Brick and John C. Champion and John R. Brick to Newton Creek, on the line of Newton Township; thence eastwardly by Newton Creek, on the line of Union and Newton, until it strikes the line of the townships of Union and Delaware; thence up the same to Burrough’s Bridge; thence on the middle of the highway and on boundary line between the townships of Union and Gloucester to Clements Bridge, on the Great Timber Creek; thence down the middle of the said creek to the place of beginning."}}

Over the years, portions of Centre Township were taken to create several new municipalities:

• Haddon Heights on March 2, 1904 (also portions of Haddon Township)
• Magnolia on April 14, 1915 (also portions of Clementon)
• Barrington on March 27, 1917
• Tavistock on February 16, 1921
• Brooklawn on March 11, 1924
• Bellmawr on March 23, 1926
• Mount Ephraim on March 23, 1926
• Runnemede on March 23, 1926
• Lawnside on March 24, 1926 (also portions of Barrington)

With the creation of Lawnside, Centre Township was officially dissolved.