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Welcome to Waterloo Village (aka 'Waterloo') ...

So far, we found very little information about Waterloo Village. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Waterloo Village to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Waterloo Village, please Contact Us.

Waterloo Village would have been located within present day Sussex County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Waterloo Village, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1847.

When the people of Waterloo Village<3> referred to themselves (known as a demonym), they are believed to have used Waterlooan<4>

While the community is gone, the present day location for Waterloo Village is 640 feet [195 m] above sea level.<5>.

Time Zone: The area where Waterloo Village was located is in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time

The Area Codes where Waterloo Village was located: 973 & 862<6>

The community of Waterloo Village has also been called Waterloo.

Communities near Waterloo Village ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Waterloo Village.

  • Morristown
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Dover
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dover have been provided by the GNIS.<7> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dover
    • Dover is located in Morris County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 17,619 people
  • Hackettstown
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
  • Boonton
    (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
  • Newton
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Newton have been provided by the GNIS.<7> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newton
    • Newton is located in Sussex County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 7,977 people
  • Belvidere
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
  • Portland
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
  • Brighton
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • Long Bridge
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
  • Succasunna
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Waterloo Village. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Waterloo Village.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Waterloo Village. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Waterloo Village.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Waterloo Village. See our Newspapers Page for Waterloo Village.

Adding Waterloo Village to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Waterloo Village in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Waterloo Village was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<9>

X2X - From that list, the Waterloo Village post office opened in 1847.

We also found Waterloo Village in the book titled Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Waterloo Village.

The official website for Sussex County: www.sussex.nj.us/

The official website for State of New Jersey: https://www.nj.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Waterloo Village, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>If you're interested in how the shape of New Jersey's counties, including Sussex, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>Waterloo Village is also known as Waterloo. For more information, please visit our Genealogy Helper Page for Waterloo Village.
<4>A demonym is the name for a resident of a community which is usually derived from (or is related to) the name of that community. In other words, it's how the residents of Waterloo Village refer to themselves. It's important to note that there aren't any rules for taking a community's name and turning it into a demonym. A demonym is informal and while the majority of Waterloo Village may use one name, keep in mind that others may use something different.
<5>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Waterloo Village - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<6>When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 973 code has been Overlayed with the 862 area code. New phone numbers in the Waterloo Village area will be assigned with one of these codes: 973 or 862. As a result, placing a call in the Waterloo Village area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<7>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<8>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<9>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/




 

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