威霍肯 (新澤西州)

威霍肯 是美國新澤西州哈德遜郡的一個城市。 根據2010年美國人口普查，威霍肯擁有人口12,554人。 

名稱

威霍肯這個名字一般被認為來自于勒納佩阿爾岡昆語族。 它可以被被解釋為"玉米地"，"海鷗之地","像樹的岩石"或"結束"。^[1][2][3]

歷史

威霍肯於1859年3月15日由新澤西州議會成立為市。在1874年一部分被割讓給霍博肯。 1879年從西霍博肯吞併了一部分地區。^[4]

地理

威霍肯是紐約都會區的一部分。 坐落在哈德遜河的西岸，與曼哈頓中城隔水相望,是林肯隧道西端的所在地。^[5]

根據 美國人口調查局，該市總面積為1.477平方英里(3.826 公里²)，包括0.796平方英里(2.063 公里²)土地和0.681平方英里(1.764 公里²)水面(46.10%).

威霍肯的人口密度大約相當於澤西市，是美國人口密度最高的城市之一。 ^[6]

參考文獻

1. Weehawken （頁面存檔備份，存於網際網路檔案館）, Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Accessed June 13, 2007. "A township in Hudson County, N.J., seven miles northeast of Jersy（原文如此） City. The name was originally an Algonquin Indian term and later changed by folk-usage to a pseudo-Dutch form. Its exact meaning is unclear, but variously translated as place of gulls, rocks that look like trees, maize land, at the end (of the Palisades) and field lying along the Hudson."
2. Hutchinson, Viola L. The Origin of New Jersey Place Names （頁面存檔備份，存於網際網路檔案館）, New Jersey Public Library Commission, May 1945. Accessed October 23, 2015.
3. Gannett, Henry. The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States （頁面存檔備份，存於網際網路檔案館）, p. 31. United States Government Printing Office, 1905. Accessed October 23, 2015.
4. Snyder, John P. The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries: 1606–1968 （頁面存檔備份，存於網際網路檔案館）, Bureau of Geology and Topography; Trenton, New Jersey; 1969. p. 148. Accessed October 25, 2012.
5. Hudson County New Jersey Street Map. Hagstrom Map Company, Inc. 2008. ISBN 0-88097-763-9.
6. Cullen, Deanna. "A 19th Century ode to Weehawken; Census shows town today far from 'hour of infancy'"^{[永久失效連結]}, The Hudson Reporter, February 13, 2011. Accessed January 14, 2012. "Still, the town's urban population density – 13,948 per square mile – is among the highest in the United States, comparable with that of Jersey City."