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is a city in Union County, New Jersey, United States, and an affluent bedroom community of New York City. As of the United States 2000 Census, the city population was 21,131. Summit has the 16th-highest per capita income in the state.
by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 23, 1869, from portions of New Providence Township (now Berkeley Heights) and Springfield Township. Summit was reincorporated as a city on March 8, 1899.
Beyond the obvious derivation from its position atop the Second Watchung Mountain, other theories have been offered to account for the city's name. The house in which Jurist James Kent lived starting in 1837 called Summit Lodge (today standing at 50 Kent Place Boulevard), and a local sawmill owner who granted passage to the Morris and Essex Railroad for a route required to climb to "the summit of the Short Hills" have both been offered as the source of the city's name.
The city is bordered by many municipalities: to the northeast by Millburn in Essex County, to the northwest by Chatham and Chatham Township, both in Morris County, to the west by New Providence, to the southwest by Berkeley Heights, to the south by Mountainside and to the southeast by Springfield Township. Summit is part of the New York metropolitan area.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 6.1 square miles (15.7 km