Bellman's Creek, forming part of the southern boundary, the Hackensack, the Overpeck, the Hudson, with more than a dozen other smaller streams and rivulets, bountifully supply the whole township with water.
The Albany road in this locality is not yet constructed, diverging at present from the track of the Susquehanna between Little Ferry and Bogota stations.
The Westervelts, the Zimcrmans, the Bantas, and the Blauvelts, all coming from Holland, settled in the middle of the seventeenth century in that locality.
Three years later, Rutherford became the first borough to be formed under that Act when it separated from Union Township to the southwest of Ridgefield.
The creation of Fort Lee, New Jersey, on April 18, 1904, put an end to Ridgefield Township.