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Mount Hermon is an unincorporated community and census-designated place within Hope Township in Warren County, defined for the first time as part of the 2010 United States census.

Its population grew by 22 percent between censuses, from 141 residents in 2010 to 172 in 2020.

The CDP covers just 0.474 square miles in Hope Township, a township set in the Kittatinny Valley, a section of the Great Appalachian Valley.

The village takes its name from Mount Hermon in Palestine, the biblical mountain, according to the Federal Writers' Project survey of New Jersey place names.

By 1881 the village had grown to include Green's Chapel, a Methodist Episcopal church, along with a schoolhouse, a store, a post office, a blacksmith shop and about a dozen dwellings.

Jefferson Loller opened Mount Hermon's first store in 1878 and was also the village's pioneer shoemaker, while Charles Beebe set up as its first blacksmith in 1879.

Two or three distilleries operated in the vicinity in the early part of the 19th century, though all had fallen into decay by the 1880s.

The 2010 census counted Mount Hermon's 141 residents living in just 50 occupied homes.

Hope Township, which contains Mount Hermon, was established by German Moravians in 1769 and is considered one of the earliest planned communities in the United States.

Mount Hermon students attend Hope Township School through eighth grade and then Belvidere High School under a sending/receiving relationship with the Belvidere School District.