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Riverton is a borough in Burlington County on the Delaware River, within the Philadelphia metropolitan area.

Riverton was established in 1851 and laid out by Philadelphia architect Samuel Sloan; architectural historian Henry Russell Hitchcock considered it one of the first totally planned residential subdivisions in the United States.

The borough was incorporated on December 18, 1893, from portions of Cinnaminson Township after a referendum held six days earlier, and its name derives from the Riverton Improvement Company, formed after a group of ten men purchased the 120-acre site for their planned riverfront community.

Riverton is a dry town where alcohol cannot legally be sold, a character rooted in deed restrictions the Riverton Improvement Company placed on properties in the community.

The Riverton Yacht Club, organized in 1865, is the oldest yacht club on the Delaware River and one of the oldest active yacht clubs in the country, and its annual Children's Flag Parade on the Fourth of July has been a tradition since 1897.

The Riverton Historic District, encompassing the borough's Victorian-era planned streetscape of gas lamps and riverfront homes, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

The Japanese beetle, now a widespread invasive pest across the United States, was first discovered in a nursery near Riverton in 1916.

The rolling grounds of the Riverton Country Club, founded in 1900, stretch along the borough's southwest border with Cinnaminson Township.

Riverton's population was 2,764 in the 2020 census, living in 1,040 households, almost unchanged from 2,779 in 2010 and 2,759 in 2000.

The borough packs that population into just 0.97 square miles, nearly a third of which is water, making it a dense, pedestrian-friendly riverfront community served by a station on NJ Transit's River Line.