Jun 25, 2005 City official name :Montclair Founded date : Location :New Jersey State Elavation :? ft (? m) Area :Approximately ? square miles (? km²). Facts :Montclair is a township in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the township population was 38,977. Montclair was first formed as a Township on April 15, 1868, from portions of Bloomfield Township. After a referendum held on February 21, 1894, Montclair was reincorporated as a Town, effective February 24, 1894. In the late 1970s, after protesting for years at the inequities built into the formulas, Montclair joined several other communities to qualify for a pool of federal aid allocated only to Townships, that allowed to
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