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Hudson County, New Jersey

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64historic places

—earliest paper

1840formed

724,854pop. 2020

11cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 64 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1970; 2 are also National Historic Landmarks. Most listings are in or near Jersey City, Hoboken, Bayonne.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for New Jersey is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Hudson titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

40 of 64 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

64 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Assembly of Exempt Firemen Building	Hoboken	Building	1984
Barrow, Dr. William, Mansion	Jersey City	Building	1977
Bayonne Truck House No. 1	Bayonne	Building	1976
Bayonne Trust Company	Bayonne	Building	2006
Buildings at 1200-1206 Washington Street	Hoboken	District	1987
Church of Our Lady of Grace	Hoboken	Building	1996
Church of the Holy Innocents	Hoboken	Building	1977
Clark Thread Company Historic District NHL	East Newark	District	1978
Engine Company No. 2	Hoboken	Building	1984
Engine Company No. 3	Hoboken	Building	1984
Engine Company No. 4	Hoboken	Building	1984
Engine Company No. 5	Hoboken	Building	1984
Engine Company No. 6	Hoboken	Building	1984
Engine House No. 3, Truck No. 2	Hoboken	Building	1984
Erie-Lackawanna Railroad Terminal at Hoboken	Hoboken	Building	1973
Excelsior Engine Co. No. 2 Firehouse-Exempt Firemen Association Headquarters	West New York	Building	2022
Fairmount Apartments	Jersey City	Building	1995
Ficken's Warehouse	Jersey City	Building	1984
Firemen's Monument	Hoboken	Object	1986
First Baptist Church	Hoboken	Building	2006
First Reformed Dutch Church of Bergen Neck (Additional Documentation)	Bayonne	Building	1982
Grace Church Van Vorst	Jersey City	Building	1979
Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company Warehouse NHL	Jersey City	Building	1978
Hackensack Water Company Complex	Weehawken	Building	1980
Hale-Whitney Mansion	Bayonne	Building	1996
Hamilton Park Historic District	Jersey City	District	1979
Hamilton Park Historic District Extension (Boundary Increase)	Jersey City	District	1982
Harsimus Cove Historic District	Jersey City	District	1987
Highland Hose No. 4	Kearny	Building	1987
Hoboken City Hall	Hoboken	Building	1976
Hoboken Free Public Library and Manual Training School	Hoboken	Building	2015
Hoboken Land and Improvement Company Building	Hoboken	Building	1979
Hook and Ladder No. 3	Jersey City	Building	2015
Hudson County Courthouse	Jersey City	Building	1970
Hudson and Manhattan Railroad Powerhouse	Jersey City	Building	2001
Jefferson Trust Company	Hoboken	Building	1986
Jersey City Central Railroad Terminal	Jersey City	Building	1975
Jersey City High School	Jersey City	Building	1982
Jersey City Medical Center	Jersey City	District	1985
Jersey City YMCA	Jersey City	Building	1999
KESTREL (steam yacht)	West New York	Structure	1977
Keuffel and Esser Manufacturing Complex	Hoboken	Building	1985
Labor Bank Building	Jersey City	Building	1984
Lembeck and Betz Eagle Brewing Company District	Jersey City	District	1984
Loew’s Jersey Theatre	Jersey City	Building	2022
Monastery and Church of Saint Michael the Archangel	Union	Building	1986
Morton Memorial Laboratory of Chemistry	Hoboken	Building	2022
Old Bergen Church	Jersey City	Building	1973
Paulus Hook Historic District	Jersey City	District	1982
Paulus Hook Historic District (Boundary Increase)	Jersey City	District	1985
Pohlmann's Hall	Jersey City	Building	1985
Reservoir No. 3	Jersey City	District	2012
Robbins Reef Light Station	Bayonne	Structure	2006
Saint Ann Roman Catholic Church and Rectory	Hoboken	Building	2015
Saint Vincent de Paul Roman Catholic Church	Bayonne	Building	2011
St. Anthony of Padua Roman Catholic Church	Jersey City	Building	2004
St. Patrick's Parish and Buildings	Jersey City	Building	1980
Stevens, Edwin A., Hall	Hoboken	Building	1994
United Synagogue of Hoboken	Hoboken	Building	2008
Van Vorst Park Historic District	Jersey City	District	1980
Van Vorst Park Historic District (Boundary Increase)	Jersey City	District	1984
Van Wagenen House	Jersey City	Building	2006
Walker, William Hall, Gymnasium	Hoboken	Building	2019
West Bergen-East Lincoln Park Historic District	Jersey City	District	2016

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Hudson was formed in 1840 (1840-02-22) from Bergen.

HUDSON created from BERGEN.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Hudson County population from 1840 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1840	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
9,483	62,717	187,944	386,048	629,154	652,040	647,437	610,734	556,972	608,975	724,854

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

National Park Service sites nearby

NPS

Park units within about 40 km of the county centroid (from NPS Public POIs; no API key).

Site	Type	Dist.
Statue Of Liberty National Monument	National Monument	5.1 km
Castle Clinton National Monument	National Monument	6.1 km
Federal Hall National Memorial	National Memorial	6.4 km
African Burial Ground National Monument	National Monument	6.5 km
Governors Island National Monument	National Monument	6.8 km
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site	National Historic Site	7.6 km
General Grant National Memorial	National Memorial	12.9 km
Thomas Edison National Historical Park	National Historical Park	14.5 km
Hamilton Grange National Memorial	National Memorial	14.9 km

Source: NPS National Datasets / Public POIs. The NPS Developer API requires a free key and was not used.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

11 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 11 of 11 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Arlington Cemetery	40.77259	-74.13181
Bay View - New York Bay Cemetery	40.69597	-74.0872
Bayview Cemetery	40.69537	-74.08736
Flower Hill Cemetery	40.7874	-74.02518
Grove Church Cemetery	40.78316	-74.02597
Hoboken Cemetery	40.79009	-74.02681
Holy Name Cemetery and Mausoleum	40.73176	-74.07903
Macphelah Cemetery	40.79232	-74.02625
Palisades Cemetery	40.77926	-74.03264
Saint Peters Cemetery	40.74176	-74.06514
Weehawken Cemetery	40.77941	-74.03004

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

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