Mountain View, California For other places in California titled "Mountain View", see Mountain View .
City of Mountain View City Hall and the Center for the Performing Arts in the Downtown region City Hall and the Center for the Performing Arts in the Downtown region Official seal of City of Mountain View Location of Mountain View inside Santa Clara County, California Location of Mountain View inside Santa Clara County, California Mountain View town/city map, California, USA Mountain View town/city map, California, USA City of Mountain View is positioned in the US City of Mountain View - City of Mountain View Mountain View is a town/city located in Santa Clara County, California, United States, titled for its views of the Santa Cruz Mountains. From its origins as a stagecoach stop, it interval to a large suburb with a pedestrian-friendly downtown, no-charge wi-fi, and a populace of 74,066.
The town/city borders Palo Alto and the San Francisco Bay to the north, Los Altos to the south, and Moffett Federal Airfield and Sunnyvale to the east.
Situated in the southern end of the San Francisco Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area, Mountain View is home to many high technology companies.
The initial Byte Shop computer store was opened at 1063 El Camino Real, Mountain View by Paul Terrell, and the first 50 Apple I computers were sold from that location.
The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority integrates the town/city with the neighboring metros/cities of Palo Alto, Los Altos, and Sunnyvale.
See also: Timeline of Mountain View, California Eventually, the former territory grant became the metros/cities of Mountain View and Sunnyvale.
[Fremont township is bounded on the north by San Mateo county and a portion of the bay of San Francisco; on the east by Alviso and Santa Clara townships; on the south by Redwood township, and on the west by San Mateo county.] Which meant that it was a predecessor to Mayfield and Palo Alto.
Mountain View Station, officially titled in 1864, had its beginnings earlier as a stagecoach stop on the route between San Francisco and San Jose, including the Butterfield Overland Mail.
The early pioneers were generally buried at the old cemetery between Mercy & Church, off Castro Street, now the present town/city Library and park, aka Pioneer Park.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 12.3 sq mi (31.8 km2), of which 12.0 sq mi (31.1 km2) is territory and 0.27 sq mi (0.7 km2) (2.26%) is water.
Mountain View is positioned at the north end of State Route 85, where it meets U.S.
State Route 82 follows the route of the historic El Camino Real through Mountain View.
The town/city is bounded to the northwest by Palo Alto, to the north by the Bay, to the south and southwest by Los Altos, and to the east by Sunnyvale and Moffett Federal Airfield.
To the west lie the Santa Cruz Mountains, after which the town/city is titled and which separate it from the Pacific Ocean.
Most of Mountain View consists of residentiary neighborhoods.
Mountain View has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate (Koppen climate classification Csb: dry-summer subtropical). Summers are warm and dry, while winters are mild and wet.
Climate data for Mountain View Google, whose command posts is positioned in Mountain View, is also the biggest employer of the city's residents.
Mountain View is one of the primary cities that make up Silicon Valley, and has many notable Silicon Valley companies either headquartered there or with a large presence.
According to the City's 2015 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the chief employers in the town/city are: 10 City of Mountain View 534 Due to its history as a center for semiconductor manufacturing, Mountain View has seven sites on the Environmental Protection Agency's Final National Priorities List (NPL), a list of hazardous waste sites in the United States eligible for long-term remedial action financed under the federal Superfund program.
The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Mountain View had a populace of 74,066.
The ethnic makeup of Mountain View was 56.0% (41,468) White, 26.0% (19,232) Asian, 2.2% (1,629) African American, 0.5% (391) Pacific Islander, 0.5% (344) Native American, 9.8% (7,241) from other competitions, and 5.1% (3,761) from two or more competitions.
The populace was spread out with 14,594 citizens (19.7%) under the age of 18, 5,401 citizens (7.3%) aged 18 to 24, 28,577 citizens (38.6%) aged 25 to 44, 17,647 citizens (23.8%) aged 45 to 64, and 7,846 citizens (10.6%) who were 65 years of age or older.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 18.0% under the age of 18, 8.3% from 18 to 24, 43.4% from 25 to 44, 19.8% from 45 to 64, and 10.5% who were 65 years of age or older.
Mountain View City Hall Mountain View Fire Station Number 1 Mountain View has a council-manager government system.
An executive town/city manager is in charge of a several departments, while the town/city council, supported by a several boards, commissions, and committees, is the council responsible for the ordinances of the town/city code.
In the state legislature, Mountain View 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, Mountain View is in California's 18th congressional district, represented by Democrat Anna Eshoo. Mountain View is home to both enhance and private schools.
The enhance elementary (Bubb, Castro, Huff, Landels, Mistral, Monta Loma, Stevenson, and Theuerkauf) and middle schools (Crittenden and Graham) are governed by the Mountain View-Whisman School District. Springer Elementary, although positioned inside the borders of Mountain View, is governed by the Los Altos School District.
The enhance high schools are governed by the Mountain View-Los Altos Union High School District and consist of Alta Vista High School, Mountain View High School, and Los Altos High School. Mountain View High and Los Altos High each contain approximately 50% Los Altos inhabitants and 50% Mountain View residents.
Some Mountain View inhabitants attend Almond Elementary and Egan Junior High in the Los Altos School District.
Mountain View taxed a large portion of its most valuable commercial and industrialized properties in the Shoreline Regional Park Community at very low relative levels, and until the creation of a joint-powers agreement (JPA) in 2006, none of those property taxes reached the small-town schools.
A citizen-supported parcel tax, largely aimed at reducing class size, was recently renewed with an overwhelming positive vote. The current ratio of students to full-time-equivalent teachers in the Mountain View enhance elementary schools is 20.4 to one. Notable private schools in Mountain View include: Khan Lab School, a laboratory school associated with Khan Academy; Saint Francis High School, a Roman Catholic secondary school; German International School of Silicon Valley(GISSV), a PK-12 German-English bilingual global school; and Yew Chung International School of Silicon Valley, a PK-12 Chinese-English bilingual global school.
Mountain View has one central enhance library, the Mountain View Public Library, offering video, music, books, self-check out, and access to the Internet.
Volunteer program to those in Mountain View, who are unable to come to the chief branch.
The second floor of the library has a special compilation in a room devoted to the history of Mountain View, which features a portrait of Crisanto Castro, for whom the downtown chief street is named.
The library hosts the Mountain View Reads Together program. Outside the library one can find a piece of the torn down Berlin Wall on display. Caltrain commuter rail at the Downtown Mountain View Station The Downtown Mountain View Station is the transit center for the city, connecting the enhance commuter rail, light rail, bus, and private shuttle systems.
Mountain View is served by the Caltrain commuter rail system, which runs from San Francisco to Gilroy.
The two Caltrain stations in the town/city are Downtown Mountain View Station and San Antonio Station.
There are a total of four stations in the town/city on the Mountain View Winchester VTA light rail line, with Downtown Mountain View Station serving as the northern terminus, while the other three stations are Whisman, Middlefield, and Bayshore/NASA.
Many large small-town employers (including Google, Microsoft, Apple Inc., and NASA Ames Research Center) operate employee shuttles that stop at the Downtown Mountain View Station.
Moffett Federal Airfield is positioned just north of Mountain View, but it is restricted to government, military, and private use.
On February 19, 2014 the City of Mountain View and Google announced a new connectivity plan for inhabitants to replace the existing system.
Service will be available along the downtown corridor of Mountain View, primarily on Castro Street.
Other areas to be veiled comprise Rengstorff Park, the Mountain View Public Library, Senior, Community, and Teen Centers. Centennial Plaza at the Downtown Mountain View Station Mountain View has a pedestrian-friendly downtown centered on Castro Street.
The downtown region consists of the seven blocks of Castro Street from the Downtown Mountain View Station transit center in the north to the intersection with El Camino Real in the south.
Chez TJ, a Michelin Guide-rated restaurant in Mountain View Sidewalk along Castro Street in downtown Mountain View The core of downtown is the plaza shared by City Hall, the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts (MVCPA) and the Mountain View Public Library.
Peninsula Youth Theatre and Theatre - Works are among the home companies of the MVCPA. The City Hall and MVCPA complex, designed by William Turnbull of San Francisco, opened in 1991. Behind those buildings is Pioneer Park, formerly the site of Mountain View's first cemetery. The Mountain View Police Department is positioned two blocks away from Castro Street on Villa Street.
Since 1971, the town/city has held the annual Mountain View Art & Wine Festival on Castro Street by method down the street to traffic for two days.
Every summer, once a month, the town/city jubilates Thursday Night Live by method off Castro street to cars and providing live music affairs and car shows on Castro Street.
The entire length of El Camino in Mountain View is a low-density commercial area. The Mountain View Farmer's Market is held every Sunday in the Downtown Mountain View Station parking lot.
The biggest park in the town/city is Shoreline Park, which was assembled on a landfill and runs along the Bay north of U.S.
Stevens Creek runs through Mountain View from the south and empties into the Bay in Shoreline Park.
A paved pedestrian and bicycle path, the Stevens Creek Trail, runs alongside the creek for nearly its entire distance in Mountain View.
Media related to Parks of Mountain View, California at Wikimedia Commons Moffett Field is a joint civil-military federal airfield positioned between northern Mountain View and northern Sunnyvale, California.
The Mountain View Sister City Affiliation was incorporated in 1974 as an autonomous non-profit governed by a Board of Directors.
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