Another municipality, Washington Borough, is completely surrounded by Washington Township, Warren County.Īccording to the U.S. It is one of five municipalities in the state of New Jersey with the name ' Washington Township'. The township was named for George Washington, one of more than ten communities statewide named for the first president. Portions of the township were taken to form Shamong Township (February 19, 1852), Bass River Township (March 30, 1864), Woodland Township (March 7, 1866) and Randolph Township (March 17, 1870, reannexed to Washington Township on March 28, 1893).

Washington was incorporated as a township by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on November 19, 1802, from portions of Evesham Township, Little Egg Harbor Township and Northampton Township (now known as Mount Holly Township, New Jersey). The township, and all of Burlington County, is a part of the Philadelphia- Reading- Camden combined statistical area and the Delaware Valley. As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 693, an increase of 6 (+0.9%) from the 2010 census count of 687, which in turn reflected an increase of 66 (+10.6%) from the 621 counted in the 2000 census. Washington Township is a township in Burlington County, in the U.S.

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