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Stanford is a census-designated place (CDP) in the northwest corner of Santa Clara County, California, United States. It is the home of Stanford University , after which it was named. The CDP's population was 21,150 at the 2020 census . [ 3 ]
Name City County Enrollment [1] Fall 2022 Founded Athletics University of California, Berkeley: Berkeley: Alameda: 45,307 1869 NCAA Div. I (ACC, MPSF, America East) University of California, Davis
Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, [11] [12] is a private research university in Stanford, California, United States.It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford, the eighth governor of and then-incumbent senator from California, and his wife, Jane, in memory of their only child, Leland Jr. [2]
Part of an 1890 map of northern Santa Clara County including all or part of the communities of Palo Alto (which would soon become College Terrace), Mayfield, and University Park (which would soon become Palo Alto). Also shows Stanford University (still under construction at the time.)
City in California, United States Palo Alto, California City Baylands Nature Preserve, Ramona Street Architectural District, Palo Alto High School, Palo Alto History Museum, Palo Alto Circle Flag Seal Logo Etymology: from Spanish palo alto ' tall stick ' Location in Santa Clara County and California Palo Alto, California Show map of San Francisco Bay Area Palo Alto, California Show map of ...
California law makes no distinction between "city" and "town", and municipalities may use either term in their official names. [6] They can be organized as either a charter municipality, governed by its own charter, or a general-law municipality (or "code city"), governed by state statute.
The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a metropolitan region surrounding the San Francisco Bay estuaries in Northern California. According to the 2010 United States Census , the region has over 7.1 million inhabitants and approximately 6,900 square miles (18,000 km 2 ) of land. [ 1 ]
The cities of Sunnyvale, Mountain View, Palo Alto and Menlo Park are frequently cited as the birthplace of Silicon Valley. San Jose is Silicon Valley's largest city, the third-largest in California, and the 13th-most populous in the United States. [4] Other major Silicon Valley cities include Santa Clara, Redwood City and Cupertino.