Menlo Park, California For other uses of "Menlo Park", see Menlo Park .
City of Menlo Park Downtown Menlo Park Downtown Menlo Park Official logo of City of Menlo Park Location in San Mateo County and the state of California Menlo Park street map, California Menlo Park street map, California City of Menlo Park is positioned in the US City of Menlo Park - City of Menlo Park Menlo Park is a town/city at the easterly edge of San Mateo County, in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, in the United States.
It is bordered by San Francisco Bay on the north and east; East Palo Alto, Palo Alto, and Stanford to the south; Atherton, North Fair Oaks, and Redwood City to the west.
Menlo Park is one of the most educated metros/cities in the state of California and the United States, with nearly 70% of its inhabitants having earned a degree. Menlo Park had 32,026 inhabitants as stated to the 2010 United States Census. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 17.4 square miles (45 km2), of which 9.8 square miles (25 km2) is territory and 7.6 square miles (20 km2) is water.
Menlo Park is long and narrow on a northeast to southwest axis.
The northeast portion borders the San Francisco Bay and includes the Dumbarton Bridge that joins Menlo Park to Fremont on the east side of the bay.
The town/city shoreline includes the city's biggest park, Bedwell Bayfront Park 160 acres (65 ha) and the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge. San Francisquito Creek marks much of the southeast border of the city.
West Menlo Park (not part of the town/city despite its name) along Alameda de las Pulgas nearly separates the southwestern part of the town/city (known as Sharon Heights) from the rest.
Route 101) traverses Menlo Park northwest to southeast near the shoreline and somewhat alongside to it to the southwest is El Camino Real.
Nearby, the Menlo Park Civic center is bounded by Ravenswood Avenue, Alma Street, Laurel Street and Burgess Drive.
The residentiary areas of Menlo Park are unofficially divided into a several neighborhoods.
West of El Camino Real until the hills are the neighborhoods of Downtown Menlo Park, Central Menlo Park, and Allied Arts (sometimes also known as Stanford Park, it is titled for the Allied Arts Guild in it).
Several other neighborhoods are closely associated with Menlo Park but are actually in unincorporated San Mateo county; these include Menlo Oaks and Fair Oaks (latter part of the North Fair Oaks census area) between Bayshore and Middlefield, University Heights (also known as West Menlo Park) between Sharon Heights and most of the rest of the city, and Stanford Weekend Acres which is somewhat near Stanford Hills. Menlo Park Station, ca.
The region of Menlo Park was inhabited by the Ohlone citizens .
Mc - Glynn, purchased a 1,700-acre (690 ha) tract of territory on the former Rancho de las Pulgas. In the 1854 they erected a gate with a wooden arch bearing the inscription "Menlo Park" and the date "August 1854" at the entrance to their property (now the intersection of Middle Ave and El Camino Real). The word "Menlo" derived from the owners' former home of Menlo in County Galway, Ireland, and is an Anglicized version of the initial Irish name of the place, Mionloch, meaning "middle lake". In 1863, the San Francisco and San Jose Rail Road had assembled the barns from San Francisco to as far as Mayfield (now California Avenue station in Palo Alto) and started running trains to the area. They titled a close-by station "Menlo Park" after the sign. The 1867 station building still stands on the platform of the current Caltrain station, used by the small-town Chamber of Commerce.
The town of Menlo Park interval up around this station, becoming a prominent home for San Francisco businessmen. A postal service appeared in 1870, and the town/city was incorporated in 1874. The initial arch which gave its name to the stations and ultimately the town/city railwayuntil 1922, when it was finished in an automobile accident. The origin of the name of Menlo Park, California (ca 1850) pre-dates any work done by Thomas Edison (ca 1876) in Menlo Park, New Jersey.
In 1917/1918 a large portion of Menlo Park was the site of Camp Fremont, a training camp for, at its height, 27,000 men being sent to fight in World War 1.
It didn't last long, the camp was dismantled after the war, but army engineers paved the first streets in Menlo Park and laid the first water and gas lines. The army did retain the camp hospital and that is now the site of a Veterans Administration hospital off of Willow road in Menlo Park.
Sharon (1859 1914) (son of Senator William Sharon) and his wife, Louise Tevis Breckinridge Sharon (1858 1938) (daughter of Lloyd Tevis and divorced wife of John Witherspoon Breckinridge), in the hills of south west Menlo Park was advanced and called "Sharon Heights". The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Menlo Park had a populace of 32,026.
The ethnic makeup of Menlo Park was 22,494 (70.2%) White, 1,551 (4.8%) African American, 156 (0.5%) Native American, 3,157 (9.9%) Asian, 454 (1.4%) Pacific Islander, 2,776 (8.7%) from other competitions, and 1,438 (4.5%) from two or more competitions.
In terms of age 7,805 inhabitants (24.4%) were under the age of 18, 1,817 citizens (5.7%) aged 18 to 24, 9,563 citizens (29.9%) aged 25 to 44, 8,263 citizens (25.8%) aged 45 to 64, and 4,578 citizens (14.3%) who were 65 years of age or older.
18,972 citizens (59.2% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 12,209 citizens (38.1%) lived in rental housing units.
On the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors, Menlo Park is split between Supervisorial District 3 (west of El Camino Real) and Supervisorial District 4 (east of El Camino Real). represented by Don Horsley and Warren Slocum, in the order given.
In the California State Legislature, Menlo Park is in the 13th Senate District, represented by Democrat Jerry Hill, and in the 24th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Marc Berman. In the United States House of Representatives, Menlo Park is split between California's 14th (east of Bayshore) and 18th (west of Bayshore) congressional districts, represented by Jackie Speier (D Hillsborough) and Anna Eshoo (D Atherton), in the order given. For major schools, the central portions of Menlo Park are served by the Menlo Park City School District, while the Belle Haven neighborhood and VA hospital are served by the Ravenswood City School District, and the Sharon Heights and Stanford Hills neighborhoods served by the Las Lomitas Elementary School District.
For high school, Menlo Park is part of the Sequoia Union High School District, with all of Menlo Park falling into the boundaries of Menlo-Atherton High School.
For higher education, Saint Patrick's Seminary and University is a Catholic seminary in Menlo Park.
Fuller Theological Seminary, an evangelical Christian school, has a branch ground in Menlo Park. Menlo College and Menlo School, which is a prep school, despite their names are in neighboring Atherton.
Much of Menlo Park's economy revolves around the companies on Sand Hill Road, consisting of venture capital, private equity, financial services, law firms, and other experienced service companies and investment vehicles focusing on technology.
Geron, Robert Half International, Exponent, Sunset and SRI International are among the companies based in Menlo Park.
Facebook moved its command posts to the former ground of Sun Microsystems in Menlo Park in December 2011.
As of 2012, Facebook announced it would be the biggest employer in Menlo Park at 6,600 employees. According to the city's 2015 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the town/city were: 10 City of Menlo Park 237 Secondhand Serenade, modern band established in Menlo Park Menlo Park, New Jersey Menlo Park (Pretoria, South Africa) "California Cities by Incorporation Date" (Word).
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