Local city information for Rutherford, NJ

Rutherford is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the borough population was 18,110. It is an inner-ring suburb of New York City, located 8 miles (13 km) west of Midtown Manhattan.

Rutherford was formed as a borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on September 21, 1881, from portions of Union Township, based on the results of a referendum held on the previous day.

Rutherford has been called the "Borough of Trees" and "The First Borough of Bergen County".

Rutherford is located at (40.828922, -74.110644).

According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of 2.9 square miles (7.6 km²), of which 2.8 square miles (7.3 km²) is land and 0.3 km² (0.1 sq mi or 4.11%) is water.

Rutherford is bounded by the Passaic River bordering Clifton and Passaic to the west, the Erie Railroad bordering East Rutherford to the north and east, the Hackensack River bordering Secaucus to the southeast, and Berrys Creek, Wall Street West and Rutherford Avenue bordering Lyndhurst to the south and southwest.

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