This Is Not a Government Office or Records Custodian. Hillside Residents Directory is a private reference service. We cannot retrieve or certify records, confirm who lives at an address, or remove someone from an official roll. Send those requests to the office that keeps the record. For an emergency, call 911. If someone is stalking or harassing you, contact local police.
Finding a Hillside Record
These are the direct routes for common Hillside research questions:
- Ownership or an address on a street: use the Hillside by-street directory.
- Historic directory volumes or past households: use the Hillside city directory collections.
- One name that needs careful confirmation: use the Hillside resident lookup.
- Record custodians and access routes: see the Hillside resident records offices.
- A municipal record that is not online: submit a focused request under the New Jersey Open Public Records Act, N.J.S.A. 47:1A-1 et seq., to the relevant custodian.
Hillside Township Clerk
Town Hall, first floor
1409 Liberty Avenue
Hillside, NJ 07205
Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
973-681-7155 or municipal general line 973-926-3002
OPRA: opra@hillsidenj.us
Use the Clerk for municipal archives, minutes, contracts, local records-management questions, and the Hillside OPRA request route. A telephone question can help identify the office, but it is not itself an OPRA request.
Union County Clerk, Land Records
Recording Division
2 Broad Street
Elizabeth, NJ 07207
Recording counter: Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
908-527-4787
Use the County Clerk for deeds, mortgages, liens, and recorded land instruments. The online index begins June 1, 1977; the record room is the documented route for Union County land transactions from 1857 forward.