City of San Mateo San Mateo from above San Mateo from above Official seal of City of San Mateo Location in San Mateo County and the state of California Location in San Mateo County and the state of California City of San Mateo is positioned in the US City of San Mateo - City of San Mateo County San Mateo San Mateo (/ s n m te .o / san m -tay-oh; Spanish for "Saint Matthew") is a town/city in San Mateo County, California, in the high-tech enclave of Silicon Valley in the San Francisco Bay Area.
With a populace of 97,207 as of the 2010 census, it is one of the larger suburbs on the San Francisco Peninsula, positioned between Burlingame to the north, Foster City and San Francisco Bay to the east, Belmont to the south, and Highlands-Baywood Park and Hillsborough to the west.
The 2015 populace was estimated to be 103,536. San Mateo was incorporated in 1894.
Documented by Spanish colonists as part of the Rancho de las Pulgas (literally "Ranch of the Fleas") and the Rancho San Mateo, the earliest history is held in the archives of Mission Dolores.
At the time of Mexican Independence there were 30 native Californians at San Mateo, most likely from the Salson tribelet. Beechey in 1827 traveling with the hills on their right, known in that part as the Sierra del Sur, began to approach the road, which passing over a small eminence, opened out upon "a wide nation of meadow land, with clusters of fine oak no-charge from underwood It firmly resembled a nobleman's park: herds of cattle and horses were grazing upon the rich pasture, and various fallow deer, startled at the approach of strangers, bounded off to seek protection among the hills This spot is titled San Matheo, and belongs to the mission of San Francisco." An 1835 sketch map of the Rancho refers to the creek as arroyo de los Laureles.
In 1810 Coyote Point was an early recorded feature of San Mateo.
In 1858 Sun Water Station, a stage station of the Butterfield Overland Mail route, was established in San Mateo.
San Mateo 1872 San Mateo in 1938 Hayward Park, the 1880 American Queen Anne-style residence of Alvinza Hayward (often said to be "California's first millionaire" from his silver and banking fortunes), was assembled on an 800-acre (3.2 km2) estate in San Mateo which encompassed a deer park and racetrack, roughly bounded by present-day El Camino Real (on the west), 9th Avenue (on the north), B Street (on the east) and 16th Avenue (on the south). A lesser portion of the property and the mansion, was converted into The Peninsula Hotel in 1908, following Hayward's death in 1904.
In the early 20th century, Japanese immigrants came to San Mateo to work in the salt ponds and flower industry.
De Sabla Japanese Teahouse and Garden was established in 1894 at 70 De Sabla Road, designed by Makoto Hagiwara, designer of the Japanese garden in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.
Joe Artavia, then serving in Vietnam with Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division wrote to his sister, Linda Giese, who was a resident of San Carlos working in San Mateo, asking if San Mateo or San Francisco could adopt the Company, saying that it would bring "the morale of the guys up as high as the clouds". San Mateo passed a resolution on March 4, 1968 officially adopting Alpha Company and letters ts began arriving from the people of San Mateo. Joe would be killed in action on March 24, 1968, less than three weeks after the resolution. Linda would travel to Vietnam to meet with the men of Alpha Company for Christmas in 1968 and bring personalized medallions from the City of San Mateo. In 1972, San Mateo requested and received permission to have Alpha Company visit the town/city when they left Vietnam, later holding a parade in January 1972, believed to be the only parade honoring the military amid the Vietnam War. In 1988, Joseph Brazan wrote a screenplay entitled A Dove Among Eagles chronicling the adoption of Alpha Company by San Mateo and the real-life romance between Linda and Artavia's commander, Lt.
View of the San Francisco Bay from Seal Point Park The best-known natural region is Coyote Point Park, a modern outcropped peninsula that juts out into the San Francisco Bay.
Sailors had a penchant for naming promontories at the edge of San Francisco Bay after the coyote; athwart the bay in Fremont are the Coyote Hills, part of Coyote Hills Regional Park.
By the 1890s the shore region was advanced as a prominent beach called San Mateo Beach.
In 1842 the Spanish had titled it playa de San Mateo.
Sawyer Camp Trail, positioned on the edge of San Mateo along the Crystal Springs Reservoir is another prominent destination for joggers, walkers and bikers.
This roughly 6 mile trail begins in San Mateo and stretches north toward Hillsborough and San Bruno, alongside to the 280 freeway.
San Mateo is positioned at 37 33 15 N 122 18 47 W (37.554286, 122.313044). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 15.9 square miles (41 km2), of which, 12.1 square miles (31 km2) is territory and 3.8 square miles (9.8 km2) (23.63%) is water.
San Mateo has a Mediterranean climate with warm, dry summers and mild, damp winters.
The town/city is generally shielded from the Pacific Ocean by the Montara Mountain block of the Santa Cruz Mountains, but two gaps in the mountain peaks (the San Bruno Gap, between Montara Mountain and San Bruno Mountain; and the Crystal Springs Gap, near where State Route 92 meets State Route 35, west of the College of San Mateo) can channel ocean weather, resulting in gusty afternoon winds that bring fog toward San Mateo in the late afternoon through early morning in the summer months. The National Weather Service maintained a cooperative weather station in San Mateo until 1978; records for the reconstructionshow that January, the coolest month, had an average maximum of 57.8 F (14.3 C) and an average minimum of 41.7 F (5.4 C), and September, the warmest month, had an average maximum of 78.0 F (25.6 C) and an average minimum of 54.2 F (12.3 C).
The most rain in one month was 12.59 inches (320 mm) of rainfall in December 1955 and the most rain in 24 hours was 3.72 inches (94 mm) of rainfall on December 23, 1955. Based on comparison with the existing NWS office at San Francisco International Airport, San Mateo is generally a several degrees warmer in summer than the airport and a several degrees cooler in winter, while annual rain is almost the same at the airport and in San Mateo. In recent years, daily temperature reports for San Mateo from small-town weather observers have been presented in the San Mateo Times and the San Francisco Chronicle.
Climate data for San Mateo The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that San Mateo had a populace of 97,207.
The ethnic makeup of San Mateo was 56,214 (46.8%) White, 2,296 (2.4%) African American, 505 (0.5%) Native American, 18,384 (18.9%) Asian (7.9% Chinese, 4.6% Filipino, 2.2% Japanese, 1.8% Indian, 0.8% Korean, 0.3% Vietnamese, 0.2% Thai), 1,998 (2.1%) Pacific Islander (1.2% Tongan, 0.3% Fijian, 0.2% Samoan, 0.1% Hawaiian,), 12,264 (12.6%) from other competitions, and 5,546 (5.7%) from two or more competitions.
Hispanic or Latino of any race were 25,815 persons (26.6%); 14.4% of San Mateo is Mexican, 2.8% Guatemalan, 2.6% Salvadoran, 1.2% Peruvian, 0.9% Nicaraguan, 0.5% Puerto Rican, 0.3% Colombian, 0.3% Chilean, 0.2% Honduran, and 0.2% Cuban.
In the California State Legislature, San Mateo is in the 13th Senate District, represented by Democrat Jerry Hill, and in the 22nd Assembly District, represented by Democrat Kevin Mullin. In the United States House of Representatives, San Mateo is in California's 14th congressional district, represented by Democrat Jackie Speier. In general, San Mateo's downtown core and neighborhoods east of El Camino Real are more crowded and have a greater density than the neighborhoods to the west of El Camino Real, where there is a lower populace density.
San Mateo has one of the larger, well developed, more prominent suburban downtowns in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Central Park is considered to be San Mateo's signature park with tennis courts, picnic areas, playground, a baseball field, a recreation center, a miniature train, and a Japanese Tea Garden. The Caltrain station is situated downtown.
Hillsdale Mall is the biggest mall in San Mateo County, with over 100 stores in the mall itself, surrounded by many big box stores.
The town/city of San Mateo has allowed the assembly of Cinepolis (luxury movie theater) and a bowling alley off El Camino Real.
The economy of San Mateo would best be considered very diverse with jobs in the technology, community care, financial services, government, and retail trade fields being among the most various.
Companies based in San Mateo include Franklin Templeton Investments, Roblox, Fisher Investments, Solar - City, Solstice, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Marketo, Go - Pro, and Net - Suite.
3 County of San Mateo Medical Center 1,140 4 San Mateo Community College District 1,110 5 San Mateo Union High School District 1,000 6 City of San Mateo 991 9 San Mateo County Behavioral Health 560 San Mateo High School Residents are zoned for schools in the San Mateo Foster City School District and San Mateo Union High School District.
There are three enhance high schools: San Mateo, Aragon, and Hillsdale.
The town/city is home to the College of San Mateo, a improve college.
The ground of over 10,000 students is positioned on 153 acres in the foothills of the town/city which offer a panoramic view of the San Francisco Bay. Other universities in the region include Notre Dame de Namur University, a private Catholic college of 2,000 students in neighboring Belmont and Stanford University positioned about 12 miles to the south.
The San Mateo Union High School District also hosts an adult school behind the ground of San Mateo High School. The City of San Mateo operates three libraries inside the city.
San Mateo maintains more than 15 parks throughout of the city.
Parkside Aquatic Park positioned on the San Francisco Bay has beach swimming and volleyball.
Coyote Point Park is near the border with Burlingame and on the San Francisco Bay.
San Mateo is considered to be near the center of the San Francisco Bay Area about halfway between San Francisco and San Jose, the region's two biggest cities.
State Route 92 east of San Mateo traverses the San Francisco Bay as the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge to the town/city of Hayward on its easterly shore.
Sam - Trans provides small-town bus service inside the town/city of San Mateo as well as the entire county of San Mateo. AC Transit provides transbay bus service via the San Mateo Bridge to Alameda County. Caltrain provides commuter rail service on the San Francisco Peninsula between San Francisco and San Jose.
Caltrain operates three stations inside the town/city of San Mateo with the Hillsdale Station, Hayward Park Station, and the San Mateo Station in downtown.
Extra trains are run to accommodate extra travelers when the San Francisco Giants play. See enhance transit in San Mateo County for more details.
San Mateo is positioned near three primary airports including San Francisco International Airport seven miles to the north.
Hospitals in San Mateo include San Mateo Medical Center, an acute care facility. Cemeteries include Skylawn Memorial Park and St.
The San Mateo Performing Arts Center, positioned on San Mateo High School, is one of the biggest theatres on the peninsula outside of San Francisco.
The College of San Mateo is also positioned here and is home to airways broadcast KCSM.
The Japanese Tea Garden and San Mateo Arboretum in Central Park, San Mateo, CA Central Park are of interest.
Route 101, Interstate 280, and State Route 92 pass through San Mateo.
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