BAYONNE, a city of Hudson county, N.J., U.S.A., occupy ing the long, narrow peninsula (4sq.m.) between New York and Newark bays, immediately south of Jersey City, and separated from Staten Island by the narrow Kill van Kull. It is on the main line of the Central Railroad of New Jersey, and through belt lines is connected (for freight) with the other trunk lines which have their tidewater termini on the western shore of the Hudson river. Nine miles of waterfront offer great potential dock ing facilities. In 1927 legislative appropriations were made for the construction by the Port of New York Authority of a vehic ular bridge to Staten Island, as the final link in a comprehensive highway system. This bridge, the Kill van Kull, was completed in 1931. The population was 32,722 in 1900; 76,7S4 in 1920, a third of which was foreign-born white, largely from Poland, Russia, Ire land and Italy; and was 88,979 in 1930 (Federal census).
Bayonne is one of the leading centres of the world for the refin ing of petroleum and the manufacture of its by-products; and it has vast coal docks, from which shipments are made to all parts of the metropolitan district. There are about 150 manufacturing establishments in all, with an annual output valued at about $220,000,000. During the World War Bayonne supplied boilers to a total of I ,845,00oh.p. ; naval guns for hundreds of ships; I 1,000 miles of wire and cable; 723 finished submarine-chasers; 7,000 tons of steel castings and 8,000 tons of iron and steel rivets; re fined nickel to meet the needs of several armies and navies; and 25,000,00o barrels of gasolene, kerosene, fuel and gas oil. Other important manufactures are broad silks, elastic fabrics, borax, soap and lotions, sulphur and insecticides, copper and nickel products. The assessed valuation of property in the city in 1927 was $158,815,057.
Bayonne was settled by the Dutch about 1665-70. It was sep arated from Bergen as a township in 1861, and was chartered as a city in 1869. Iii 1915 a commission form of government was adopted.