Los Gatos, California "Los Gatos"
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Los Gatos, California Town of Los Gatos Flag of Los Gatos, California Flag Official seal of Los Gatos, California Los Gatos, California is positioned in the US Los Gatos, California - Los Gatos, California Main Street Los Gatos Los Gatos /l s t s/ is an incorporated U.S.
Town in Santa Clara County, California.
The populace is 30,391 as stated to the 2013 United States Enumeration Bureau. According to Bloomberg Businessweek, Los Gatos is ranked the 33rd wealthiest town/city in the United States. It is positioned in the San Francisco Bay Area at the southwest corner of San Jose in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains.
Los Gatos is part of Silicon Valley, with a several high technology companies maintaining a existence there.
Most prominently, streaming and content creator, Netflix is headquartered in Los Gatos and has advanced a large existence in the area.
Los Gatos is Spanish for "the cats." The name derives from the 1839 Alta California land-grant that encompassed the area, which was called La Rinconada de Los Gatos, ("Cat's Corner"), where "the cats" refers to the cougars and bobcats that are indigenous to the foothills in which the town is located.
The name has been anglicized to /l s t s/ lawss-gat- s, although one also hears pronunciations truer to the initial Spanish, /lo s to s/ lohss-gah-tohss.
The town's beginning dates to the mid-1850s with the building of a flour operation, Forbes Mill, by James Alexander Forbes along Los Gatos Creek.
The settlement that was established in the 1860s was originally titled for the mill, but the name was changed to Los Gatos after the Spanish territory grant.
The town was incorporated in 1887 and remained an meaningful town for the logging trade in the Santa Cruz Mountains through the end of the 19th century.
In the early 20th century, the town became a grow agricultural town with apricots, grapes and prunes being grown in the area.
By the 1920s, the Los Gatos region had a small-town reputation as an arts colony, attracting painters, musicians, writers, actors and their bohemian associates as inhabitants over the years.
The violinist Yehudi Menuhin lived there as a boy; the actresses Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland (sisters) were graduates of Los Gatos High School, John Steinbeck wrote The Grapes of Wrath there (the locale is now positioned in Monte Sereno), and Beat hero Neal Cassady lived there in the 1950s.
Along with much of the Santa Clara Valley, Los Gatos became a suburban improve for San Jose beginning in the 1950s, and the town was mostly built-out by the 1980s.
Downtown Los Gatos has retained and restored many of its Victorian-era homes and commercial buildings.
Other notable buildings are the Forbes Mill annex, dating to 1880 and now housing a history exhibition; Los Gatos High School which dates from the 1920s; and the Old Town Shopping Center, formerly the University Avenue School (the school was established in 1882; the current buildings date to 1923).
A number of brick buildings in Downtown Los Gatos were finished or seriously damaged in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, though the precinct was quickly rebuilt and has made a full recovery.
Transport by rail was an early aspect of Los Gatos.
The South Pacific Coast Railroad, a prominent narrow-gauge line from Alameda (and San Francisco via ferry) to Santa Cruz in the late 19th century, stopped in Los Gatos. Southern Pacific took over this line in 1887.
Los Gatos was also near the Southern Pacific resort town of Holy City, along the rail line in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
The last Southern Pacific passenger train to Santa Cruz left Los Gatos in March 1940.
In town, the rail line used to run along the shore of Vasona Reservoir to the present-day locale of the Post Office, following the path of what is now a continuous string of parking lots between Santa Cruz Ave.
Between 1891 and 1929 about 20 petroleum wells were drilled in and around Los Gatos, starting a minor oil-drilling boom. About 1861 small amounts of petroleum were identified in streams, springs, and water wells in the Santa Cruz Mountains in the vicinity of Moody Gulch, about 6.5 km south of the Los Gatos Post Office. An intense search for petroleum ensued, resulting in the drilling of many wells and establishment of the Moody Gulch petroleum field. The Moody Gulch petroleum field, however, never met expectations, and it was abandoned about 1938 after producing a total of about 98,000 barrels of petroleum and 44 million ft3 of gas. In 1891, one of the Moody Gulch drillers, R.C.
Mc - Pherson, found petroleum in a well along San Jose Road (now Los Gatos Boulevard) in the Santa Clara Valley flatlands, about 3 km northeast of the Los Gatos Post Office. Although commercial manufacturing was never established, small amounts of petroleum were produced for use as fuel, lubricant, and road tar by small-town residents. Los Gatos is positioned at 37 14 10 N 121 57 42 W (37.236044, 121.961768). Los Gatos is bisected by State Route 17, which runs through the town from south to north.
Los Gatos Theater on Santa Cruz Ave Highway 9 (Los Gatos-Saratoga Road) from the coast terminates at Highway 17.
Downtown Los Gatos, the region on and around Santa Cruz Avenue and Main Street, is positioned in the southwest quadrant of town.
The region around Los Gatos Boulevard, east of Highway 17, is much more typically suburban than downtown, with medium-sized shopping centers clustered at primary intersections of the multilane boulevard.
Although the town has generally a quiet setting, its principal noise generators are State Route 17 and Los Gatos Boulevard.
Sound levels inside one hundred and fifty feet of Los Gatos Boulevard exceed 60 CNEL (Community Noise Equivalent Level), a generally unacceptable range for residentiary living.
CA 17 freeway passes through Los Gatos Town Plaza Park in Downtown Los Gatos Vasona Park, a county park, and neighboring Oak Meadow Park, which belongs to the town, are positioned in what is roughly the geographic middle of the town, bordered on the south by Blossom Hill Road, on the east by Highway 17, on the west by University Avenue, and reaching at the north end not quite all the way to Lark Avenue.
Los Gatos Creek begins in the Santa Cruz Mountains south of the town and runs through the town alongside to Highway 17 all the way through neighboring Campbell and San Jose to the Guadalupe River, which flows into San Francisco Bay.
A walking, jogging, and biking trail called the Los Gatos Creek Trail runs alongside much of the creek from Lexington Dam through Vasona Park and Campbell to Meridian Avenue in San Jose.
In Los Gatos, the trail passes the 1854 Forbes Mill.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 11.2 square miles (29 km2).
Los Gatos is surrounded by a several mountain bike trails.
Although the official total region of the town is 11.2 square miles, approximately 100 square miles of the encircling Los Gatos Mountains (within the Santa Cruz Mountains range), has a Los Gatos address and uses the 95033 zip code (primarily) for U.S.
Los Gatos experiences nearly the same temperatures as San Jose, just slightly warmer and with more rain.
Los Gatos has a Mediterranean climate like much of California.
January's average high is 63 F (17 C) and the low is 43 F (6 C) while July's average high is 86 F (30 C) and low is 57 F (14 C).
Los Gatos has a Zone 10 hardiness zone.
Los Gatos rarely gets a difficult frost.
Los Gatos gets the slight winter chill that is needed to expanded grapes and have vineyards.
There are an average of 27.0 days annually with highs of 90 F (32 C) or higher and an average of 5.0 days annually with lows of 32 F (0 C) or lower.
Although snow sometimes falls in the close-by Santa Cruz Mountains, it is very rare in Los Gatos.
The most snow on record was 2.0 inches in February 1976. Los Gatos averages 330 sunny days per year. Climate data for Los Gatos, California The following companies are headquartered in Los Gatos: 2 El Camino Hospital Los Gatos 560 5 Los Gatos Elementary School District 273 9 Los Gatos-Saratoga Joint Union High School District 157 10 Town of Los Gatos 157 4 El Camino Hospital Los Gatos 700 5 Los Gatos Union School District 275 6 Los Gatos-Saratoga Joint Union High School District 270 9 Town of Los Gatos 150 The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Los Gatos had a populace of 29,413.
The ethnic makeup of Los Gatos was 24,060 (81.8%) White, 269 (0.9%) African American, 86 (0.3%) Native American, 3,203 (10.9%) Asian, 52 (0.2%) Pacific Islander, 462 (1.6%) from other competitions, and 1,281 (4.4%) from two or more competitions.
The populace was spread out with 6,567 citizens (22.3%) under the age of 18, 1,442 citizens (4.9%) aged 18 to 24, 6,722 citizens (22.9%) aged 25 to 44, 9,417 citizens (32.0%) aged 45 to 64, and 5,265 citizens (17.9%) who were 65 years of age or older.
19,901 citizens (67.7% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 9,162 citizens (31.1%) lived in rental housing units.
In the town the populace was spread out with 21.2% under the age of 18, 4.3% from 18 to 24, 31.5% from 25 to 44, 27.7% from 45 to 64, and 15.3% who were 65 years of age or older.
In the California State Legislature, Los Gatos is in the 15th Senate District, represented by Democrat Jim Beall, and in the 28th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Evan Low. In the United States House of Representatives, Los Gatos is in California's 18th congressional district, represented by Democrat Anna Eshoo. The town of Los Gatos is served by the VTA, (Valley Transportation Authority) which also serves the majority of the county of Santa Clara, including San Jose.
The two Los Gatos Community Buses run from Santa Cruz and Main to the Winchester Transit Center, the 49 via Los Gatos Boulevard and the 48 via Winchester.
For air travel, the closest global airports are San Jose International Airport (SJC), San Francisco International Airport (SFO), and Oakland International Airport.
Los Gatos High School.
Los Gatos-Saratoga Joint Union High School District Los Gatos High School Los Gatos Union School District The Los Gatos Public Library is directed by the Town of Los Gatos and is not part of the Santa Clara County Library system.
The library is positioned at 100 Villa Ave, Los Gatos, CA in the town Civic Center.
The New Museum, NUMU, formerly called Museums of Los Gatos, offers exhibitions and programs on Los Gatos and San Francisco Bay Area art and history. Los Gatos has five official sister cities: Hal Chase early 20th century baseball star (born in Los Gatos) Dredg - band formed in Los Gatos Aaron Eckhart actor (raised in Los Gatos) Trapt - band formed in Los Gatos Owner of three Michelin star rated Manresa in Los Gatos.
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