Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Netcong, NJ

Netcong is a borough in southwestern Morris County that was incorporated on October 23, 1894, from portions of Mount Olive Township and Roxbury Township, following a referendum held the previous day.

The community began as South Stanhope, a settlement of workers employed as miners in neighboring Stanhope, and took the name Netcong in 1889 when a post office adopted it.

Netcong's name derives from the Musconetcong River, whose Lenape name has been translated as "grass creek," "swamp stream," "rapid stream" or "clear stream place."

The borough's motto is "All Roads Lead To Netcong," reflecting its history as a crossroads shaped by the Morris and Sussex Turnpike after 1801 and the arrival of the Morris Canal in 1831.

Netcong sits on the shores of Lake Musconetcong, and water makes up about 13 percent of its compact 0.96 square miles.

The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad made Netcong its last stop in Morris County, and the borough's economy long depended on the railroad and the big roundhouse in nearby Port Morris.

In 1968 AT&T built a two-story communications facility in Netcong sunk in a hole 47 feet underground, designed to connect a Boston-to-Miami cable and to keep operating for up to three weeks after a nuclear attack.

A borough census taken in July 1895 counted just 877 people, and Abraham J. Drake, elected on November 14, 1894, was Netcong's first mayor.

The 2020 census counted 3,375 residents in Netcong living in 1,434 households.

Netcong's own school district educates children from pre-kindergarten through eighth grade at Netcong Elementary School, a building that served as Netcong High School until the high school closed in 1974.