The municipality, which has an average household size of 2.66 people covers approx. 30.44 square miles. Mount Olive Township is comprised of two main areas, Budd Lake and Flanders, and its neighbors include Hackettstown, Allamuchy, Byram, Stanhope, Roxbury Township and Chester Township.
Mt. Olive Township is comprised of 32 square miles. It consists of two sections named for people or events, such as: Budd Lake, named for John Budd, and Flanders, named for a group of early settlers who vacationed in Flanders, Long Island. Roads in the Township are named after early settlers as well, such as: Smithtown because of the many Smiths that lived there; Drakestown named for the Drakes; Bartley Road for the Bartley family; Waterloo, which had served as a French Army Officer's hospital in 1740 and later when Napoleon met his defeat, the Americans there, who were sympathetic to the British, named the Township, Mt. Olive, for Benjamin Olive.
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