Tools for living in Hunterdon County

Check a contractor's license, plan the weekend, see what's closing on your road. Free, built on public data, nothing you type gets stored.

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Check a license

Type a contractor's name or license number, see their state registration status in seconds.

Event calendar

Everything on around the county this month, on a calendar and a map. Filter by kids or grown-ups, by kind of thing, and by town.

Places worth a trip

Answer four questions, get evergreen picks across the county that fit your crew: parks, farms, wineries, museums.

Road work map

What's closed or under construction, where, and when it reopens, on a timeline.

Development tracker

Pending warehouses, subdivisions, and rezonings near you, plus which towns are moving on data-center bans.

County Pulse

This week's county alerts, public meetings, park notices, and county job postings, pulled from the county's own feeds.

Town Chooser

Moving to (or within) Hunterdon? Weigh taxes, schools, commute, and environment, then compare any two towns with real numbers.

Food help near you

Pantries, self-serve cabinets, and meal programs across the county, with hours and flags for the ones that don't ask questions.

Farmland tax checker

See whether your land qualifies for Farmland Assessment and estimate a rollback bill at your town's real 2025 rate. August 1 is the filing deadline.

Teen first jobs

See what's hiring for teens right now, plus working papers step by step and the real hour limits by age.

Lost & found pets

See who's lost or found nearby right now, plus what to do first if your pet goes missing.

River levels

Live height and flow for the South Branch, the Delaware, and the county's creeks, with each gauge's real flood stage.

Train departures

Next Raritan Valley Line trains from High Bridge, Annandale, Lebanon, and White House, weekends handled automatically.

Air quality now

Live smoke and air alerts for the county, plus current readings from the four closest state monitors.

Jobs near home

County job openings on a map, sorted by distance from your town.

Money deadlines

State property-tax relief, heating-bill help, and winter shutoff protection, with the real filing dates. Property-tax relief is due November 2.

Well & septic care

On a private well? What to test and how often, what selling requires, and where to get tested locally, plus keeping a septic healthy.

Getting around without a car

The county bus (LINK) runs eight free routes, plus door-to-door rides and a volunteer driver program for medical trips out of county.

Senior meals

Meals on Wheels delivers to homebound seniors 60+ and runs weekday lunches you can go eat together, suggested donation $5.50 a meal.

Which court has your ticket

A ticket goes to your town's municipal court, and towns share them. Find yours: the court, the address, the number, plus how to request town records.

Ice cream, ranked

Where to get ice cream in the county, sorted by review standings, awards, and who actually makes it on the farm.

Little free libraries

The little book boxes around the county: where they are, what you'll find in them, and how to tell us about one we missed. Take a book, leave a book, no card needed.

Backyard chicken rules

Whether your town allows backyard hens, how many, and whether roosters make the cut, with the code section linked wherever one exists.

Farm stand map

The honor-box farm stands on the county's own 579 Trail list, on one map, with a form to tell us about the one on your road.

What your town is deciding

Township committee and planning board agenda items in plain English, with the agenda linked, refreshed weekly by our records sweep. First full week files Monday, August 10.

Why is it called that?

Where Hunterdon's place names come from: all 26 towns, the villages, and a few roads and creeks. The documented stories, the folk tales labeled as folk tales, and the five nobody can explain.

River conditions

Live readings from the three USGS gauges on the Hunterdon stretch of the Delaware: river height at all three, flow and temperature where the gauge reports them, and how today compares with past years.

Can you afford your town?

The salary it takes to buy the median home in each of the 26 towns, from state sales records, current rates, and each town's real property tax.

School spending

What every Hunterdon district spends per student, what teachers and administrators make, and class sizes, from the state's own books.

The Hunterdon that was

The speedway, the outlet village, the luncheonette and the lanes that are gone: where they stood, when they closed, and where we could confirm it, what's there now.

Property tax map

What every Hunterdon town pays: average bill, effective rate, where the money goes, and how much your town's bill grew since 2020.

Crash map

Five years of state crash records on one county map: where crashes cluster, deer and pedestrian layers, and the spots that hurt the most people.

Data center map

Which of the county's 26 towns have banned data centers, which passed a resolution against them, and which have nothing on the books, with the ordinance numbers and the records behind each one.

Flock camera map

Where the Flock license plate reader cameras reported in the county are, who operates them when the source data names one, and where each report came from.

Airbnb rules by town

Which Hunterdon towns ban short-term rentals, which require a permit, and which have no rule at all, read out of each town's own code.

Tree removal rules

Whether cutting down a tree on your own lot needs a permit in your town, and at what trunk size the town starts asking. All 26 codes read.

Town rules lookup

Chickens, sheds, Airbnbs, tree removal, home businesses, garage sales: what your town's code actually says, for all 26 towns, with the section numbers.

Town vs town rules

Pick two towns and see whose rules are stricter on hens, short rentals, junk cars, garage sales and tree removal.

How Hunterdon are you?

Fifteen questions, five verdicts, from New Plates to Old Hunterdon. See how deep your county roots go, then argue about your score.

Warehouse distance checker

Type your address and see how far you live from every approved or pending warehouse in the county, and whether any battery storage site is on file.

Tax appeal estimator

Enter your assessment and what your house is really worth. The state ratio table says whether an appeal is worth filing, town by town.

Flood map checker

FEMA redrew the flood maps along the Raritan. Type your address and see your zone on the current map and the new one, side by side.

Vet wait-time board

Every vet in Hunterdon on one page, the two 24/7 emergency hospitals up top, and what readers were told when they called for an appointment.

Frost dates

When frost actually arrives where you live: first fall frost and last spring frost from 30 years of NOAA readings, town by town.

Propane and oil board

Every propane and heating oil company delivering in Hunterdon, on one page with the number to call. Neighbors post the prices they were quoted.

Business directory

3,194 Hunterdon businesses by town and category

Life in Hunterdon County, twice a week

Local events, what's opening and closing, road closures, and the scams going around. Free, every Monday and Thursday morning.