Gilroy, California Gilroy, California City of Gilroy Flag of Gilroy, California Flag Official seal of Gilroy, California Location in Santa Clara County and the state of California Location in Santa Clara County and the state of California Gilroy, California is positioned in the US Gilroy, California - Gilroy, California Named for John Gilroy Gilroy / l.r / is a town/city located in Northern California's Santa Clara County.
The city's populace was 48,821 at the 2010 United States Census.
Gilroy is well known for its garlic crop and for the annual Gilroy Garlic Festival, featuring various garlicky foods such as garlic ice cream, dominant to the city's nickname as the "Garlic Capital of the World".
Gilroy also produces mushrooms in considerable quantity.
Boutique wine manufacturing is a large part of Gilroy's portion, mostly consisting of family estates around the base of the Santa Cruz Mountains to the west. 1.1 John Gilroy Spanish explorers led by Juan Bautista de Anza first passed through the Santa Clara Valley region in 1776, and in 1797 Mission San Juan Bautista was established near the Pajaro River.
The village of San Ysidro (not to be confused with the present-day San Diego community) interval nearby, at the foot of Pacheco Pass which linked the El Camino Real and the Santa Clara Valley with the San Joaquin Valley.
During the visit, ordinary seaman John Gilroy (a Scotsman who had changed his name from John Cameron when he went to sea to avoid recognition) either (depending on the historical source) jumped ship or was left ashore to recover from scurvy. John Gilroy (1794 1869) spent the next several years moving around among the missions, pueblos and ranchos, plying his trade as a cooper (barrel manufacturer).
Larkin, Gilroy was one of only two English-speakers resident in Alta California. Eventually, he found his way to Rancho San Ysidro, converted to Roman Catholicism and became the first naturalized English-speaking settler in Alta California.
In 1821, the same year Mexico won its independence from Spain, Gilroy married a daughter of his employer, ranchero Ygnacio Ortega.
Upon Ygnacio's death in 1833, the rancho was divided among his three kids - including Gilroy's wife Maria Clara.
Property law, the Rancho San Ysidro (Gilroy) was patented to John Gilroy.
The settlement now known as "Old Gilroy" interval up around Gilroy's rancho complex and, after the end of the Mexican-American War in 1848, Gilroy served as alcalde of the village. On March 12, 1870 it was officially incorporated by the state council as the town of Gilroy (John Gilroy had died in 1869).
By then the town center had been relocated west of the El Camino Real (Old Gilroy is today a sparsely populated agricultural area).
Samuel Moore was a long time Gilroy postmaster, whose home was assembled in the 1870s at 7151 Church Street. Nearby in the foothills of the Diablo Range to the northeast is the historic resort site Gilroy Yamato Hot Springs, advanced in the late 19th century (now closed to the public).
Gilroy is positioned at 37 00 43 N 121 34 48 W. It is approximately 26 km (16 mi) south of San Jose, California (Bailey Avenue (37.206770, -121.729150) to Monterey/Day Road (37.038210, -121.584480)) on U.S.
Even with its apparently close adjacency to San Jose, it is meaningful to note that Gilroy City Hall lies at a distance of 33.3 miles from San Jose City Hall.
Lying in a southern extension of the Santa Clara Valley at an altitude of about 61 m (200 ft) above MSL, it is bounded by the Santa Cruz Mountains to the west and the Diablo Range to the east.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 16.2 square miles (42 km2).
Due to the moderating influence of the Pacific Ocean, Gilroy appreciates a warm, Mediterranean climate.
Temperatures range from an average midsummer maximum of 32.3 C (90.2 F) to an average midwinter low of 0.9 C (33.6 F).
There are an average of 7.4 days with highs of 100 F ( 37.8 C) or higher and an average of 17.7 days with lows of 32 F (0 C) or lower.
Climate data for Gilroy, California (1906 2012) Average rain days ( .01 in) 10 9 9 6 2 1 0 0 1 3 6 9 58 Average rainy days ( .1 in) 7 6 6 3 1 0 0 0 1 2 4 6 37 The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Gilroy had a populace of 48,821.
The ethnic makeup of Gilroy was 28,674 (58.7%) White, 942 (1.9%) African American, 831 (1.7%) Native American, 3,448 (7.1%) Asian, 111 (0.2%) Pacific Islander, 12,322 (25.2%) from other competitions, and 2,493 (5.1%) from two or more competitions.
The Enumeration reported that 48,015 citizens (98.3% of the population) lived in homeholds, 642 (1.3%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 164 (0.3%) were institutionalized.
There were 14,175 homeholds, out of which 7,111 (50.2%) had kids under the age of 18 living in them, 8,160 (57.6%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 2,212 (15.6%) had a female homeholder with no husband present, 964 (6.8%) had a male homeholder with no wife present.
The populace was spread out with 14,983 citizens (30.7%) under the age of 18, 4,514 citizens (9.2%) aged 18 to 24, 14,104 citizens (28.9%) aged 25 to 44, 11,122 citizens (22.8%) aged 45 to 64, and 4,098 citizens (8.4%) who were 65 years of age or older.
27,798 citizens (56.9% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 20,217 citizens (41.4%) lived in rental housing units.
As of the United States 2000 Census, there were 41,464 citizens , 11,869 homeholds, and 9,590 families residing in the city.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 58.9% White, 1.8% African American, 1.6% Native American, 4.4% Asian, 0.3% Pacific Islander, 27.7% from other competitions, and 5.4% from two or more competitions.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 32.6% under the age of 18, 10.0% from 18 to 24, 32.7% from 25 to 44, 18.0% from 45 to 64, and 6.8% who were 65 years of age or older.
Two of the biggest employers in Gilroy are Christopher Ranch and Olam Spices & Vegetables. Gilroy Garlic Festival Gilroy is twinned with: Coyote Lake-Harvey Bear Ranch County Park, immediately east of Gilroy Gilroy Gardens, west side of Gilroy on State Route 152.
In the California State Legislature, Gilroy is in the 17th Senate District, represented by Democrat Bill Monning, and in the 30th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Anna Caballero. In the United States House of Representatives, Gilroy is split between California's 19th congressional district, represented by Zoe Lofgren (D San Jose) and California's 20th congressional district, represented by Jimmy Panetta (D Carmel Valley).
Gilroy Unified School District operates enhance schools.
Gilroy High School Gilroy Early College Academy (GECA) Gilroy Prep School, a charter school Santa Clara County Library operates the Gilroy Library. Gilroy Dispatch Gilroy Patch The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority provides small-town buses and express buses to San Jose and Sunnyvale. Gilroy is the southern end of Caltrain, which operates three northbound and three southbound rush-hour commute trains each weekday between the Gilroy (Caltrain station) and the Santa Clara Valley, San Francisco Peninsula and San Francisco. Monterey-Salinas Transit's Line 55, which stops in Gilroy, is a rush-hour San Jose-Monterey express bus that also serves as an Amtrak Thruway Motorcoach connection. San Benito County Express provides intercounty bus service to Hollister and San Juan Bautista. The Disney XD show Zeke & Luther is set in Gilroy.
Gilroy has been mentioned by name in a several tv programs such as Even Stevens and True Detective.
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