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Hackensack map c. 1896. The earliest known inhabitants of the area were the Lenni Lenape, an Algonquian people who became known to settlers as 'the Delaware Indians.' They lived along a river they called Achinigeu-hach, or "Ackingsah-sack", which translates to stony ground—today this river is more commonly known by the name 'the Hackensack River.' [29] A representation of Chief Oratam of the ...
The Hackensack River is a river, approximately 45 miles (72 km) long, in the U.S. states of New York and New Jersey, emptying into Newark Bay, a back chamber of New York Harbor. The watershed of the river includes part of the suburban area outside New York City just west of the lower Hudson River , which it roughly parallels, separated from it ...
The Hackensack has only been channelized to Milepoint 3.5 at the Riverbend in Hudson County. [10] [13] The accumulation of silt has diminished the depth, and thus navigability, of the Lower Hackensack. [14] which at one time was a major waterway for towboats and river barges in the Port of New York and New Jersey. [15]
South Hackensack is a township in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census , the township's population was 2,701, [ 9 ] an increase of 323 (+13.6%) from the 2010 census count of 2,378, [ 18 ] [ 19 ] which in turn reflected an increase of 129 (+5.7%) from the 2,249 counted in the 2000 census .
The 302-foot-long East Anderson Street/Cedar Lane Bridge connects Bergen County's two most-populated municipalities, Hackensack on the west (left), and Teaneck on the east (right).
After a preliminary assessment in 2015, [17] in September 2022 the Lower Hackensack was declared a federal superfund site, triggering a process to remediate and restore the water and shoreline. [18] [19] [20] The Hackensack River Greenway Through Teaneck is a National Recreation Trail [21] which is not connected to the one in Hudson County.
The Hackensack at River Vale was at 6.38 feet, above its minor flooding mark there of 5.3 feet. The Pascack River in Westwood was at 5.4 feet, slightly above its normal minor flooding stage of 5 feet.
Overpeck Creek is a tributary of the Hackensack River, approximately 8 miles (13 km) long, in Bergen County in northeastern New Jersey in the United States. The lower broad mouth of the creek is part of the extended tidal estuary of the lower Hackensack and of the adjacent wetland region known as the New Jersey Meadowlands.