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Richmond County
County Seat: New York City
Settled in 1661
Year Organized: 1683
Square Miles: 309
Richmond County, New York: named for Lennox, the
Duke of Richmond.
Staten Island: named by the Dutch for the Staaten
General.
[Source: Brooklyn Daily Eagle Aug 23,
1902]
One of the five boroughs, Staten Island, is
co-terminous with Richmond county.
July
1, 2012 estimates Population: 470,728, in a land area of 58 square miles
[Source: US Census Bureau ]
The
towns of Staten Island were dissolved in 1898 with the consolidation of the
City of Greater New York, as Richmond County became one of the five
boroughs of the expanded city.
Staten Island is the least populated of the 5 boroughs and was referred
to as the Borough of Richmond until 1975.
The borough also contains the
southern-most point in the state, South Point.
At the time of
European contact, the island was inhabited by the Raritan band of the Unami
division of the Lenape (referred to as the "Delaware" by European
colonists.)
In 1670, the Native Americans ceded all claims to Staten
Island to the English in a deed to Governor Francis Lovelace.
A Lenape
burial ground on a bluff overlooking Raritan Bay in Tottenville is the
largest pre-European burial ground in New York City, and is referred to as
"Burial Ridge". The unmarked burial ground lies within Conference House
Park.
City-County
Consolidation
New
York City consolidated
with the Counties of
Bronx (The Bronx),
Kings (Brooklyn),
New
York (Manhattan),
Queens (Queens)
and Richmond (Staten
Island) in 1874.
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City website for data that didn't specify any
specific place other than "New
York City"
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Courthouse Info:
City Hall
52 Chambers Street
New York, NY 10007-1222
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Surrounding Counties
Hudson
County, NJ
Union
Co., NJ
Middlesex
Co., NJ
Kings
Co., NY
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