![]() ![]() Their camp sites are difficult to find as they are many feet below the present surface. They used spears made of bone, jasper or black chert. ![]() Paleo Indians traveled in small groups in search of game and edible plants. The area was that of Taiga/Boreal forests. The Wisconsin Glacier in Warren and Sussex County was retreating northward. The area was warming due to climate change. Paleo Indians moved into Hunterdon County between 12,000 BCE and 11,000 BCE. ![]() Language changes over time and location, so by stemming of, and a → lenition of the name of his family seat of "Hunterston" in Ayrshire, Scotland, the name "Hunterdon" was derived. Hunterdon County was named for Robert Hunter, a colonial governor of New Jersey. The rolling hills and rich soils which produce bountiful agricultural crops drew Native American tribes and then Europeans to the area. Hunterdon County was established on March 11, 1714, separating from Burlington County, at which time it included all of present-day Morris, Sussex, and Warren counties. It is located within the state's Skylands Region and is considered to be a part of Central Jersey. However, it is part of the New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island metropolitan statistical area (MSA) and part of the larger New York-Newark Combined Statistical Area (CSA). Local businesses and the Delaware Valley Regional High School carry the name. Geographically, much of the county lies in the Delaware Valley. In 2011, Hunterdon County had the second-lowest level of child poverty of any county in the United States. The Bureau of Economic Analysis ranked the county as having the 19th-highest per capita income of all 3,113 counties in the United States (and the highest in New Jersey) as of 2009. In 2015, the county had a per capita personal income of $80,759, the third-highest in New Jersey and ranked 33rd of 3,113 counties in the United States. At the 2020 census, the county was the state's 18th-most populous county, with a population of 128,947, its highest decennial count ever and an increase of 598 (+0.5%) from the 2010 census count of 128,349, which in turn reflected an increase of 6,360 (5.2%) from the 121,989 counted in the 2000 census. Hunterdon County is a county located in the western section of the U.S. Interactive map of Hunterdon County, New Jersey ![]()
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