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Santa Clara, California is positioned in the US Santa Clara, California - Santa Clara, California County Santa Clara Rank 3rd in Santa Clara County Santa Clara (/ s nt kl r /) is a town/city in Santa Clara County, California, titled after the Spanish mission that was established there in 1777.
The city's populace was 116,468 at the 2010 United States Census, making it the ninth-most crowded city in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The town/city is the site of the eighth of 21 California missions, Mission Santa Clara de Asis, and was titled after the mission. The Mission and Mission Gardens are positioned on the grounds of Santa Clara University.
Santa Clara is positioned in the center of Silicon Valley and is home to the command posts of a several high-tech companies such as Intel.
It is also home to Santa Clara University, the earliest institution of higher learning in the state of California.
Santa Clara's Main Street, about 1910.
The Spanish began to colonize California with 21 missions and the Mission Santa Clara de Asis was established in 1777.
In 1851, Santa Clara College was established on the grounds of the initial Mission.
In 1852, Santa Clara was incorporated as a town; it became state-chartered by 1862.
In 1905, the first enhance high-altitude flights by humans were made over Santa Clara in gliders designed by John J.
Santa Clara's first medical hospital was assembled in 1963.
Santa Clara was also home to a primary mental community facility, Agnews State Hospital.
Santa Clara is drained by three cyclic creeks, all of which empty into the southern portion of San Francisco Bay; these creeks are San Tomas Aquino Creek, Saratoga Creek, and Calabazas Creek.
Even with being positioned only 45 miles from San Francisco, Santa Clara's climate is rather distinct especially during the summer, when it is generally warm and sunny, as opposed to the foggy and cool conditions one normally finds in San Francisco.
Climate data for Santa Clara, California (Santa Clara University, 1893 1976) The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Santa Clara had a populace of 116,468.
The ethnic makeup of Santa Clara was 52,359 (45.0%) White, 3,154 (2.7%) African American, 579 (0.5%) Native American, 43,889 (37.7%) Asian (13.6% Indian, 6.9% Chinese, 6.2% Filipino, 3.9% Vietnamese, 3.0% Korean, 1.5% Japanese), 651 (0.6%) Pacific Islander, 9,624 (8.3%) from other competitions, and 6,212 (5.3%) from two or more competitions.
Hispanic or Latino of any race were 22,589 persons (19.4%); 14.6% of Santa Clara's populace was of Mexican ancestry.
The age distribution of the populace was as follows: 24,774 citizens (21.3%) were under the age of 18, 12,511 citizens (10.7%) aged 18 to 24, 41,876 citizens (36.0%) aged 25 to 44, 25,628 citizens (22.0%) aged 45 to 64, and 11,679 citizens (10.0%) who were 65 years of age or older.
Santa Clara owns and operates an electric utility called Silicon Valley Power.
The new combined cycle gas turbine plant produces 147 megawatts of electricity for the town/city and its residents. As a result, the going rate for electricity in Santa Clara is considerably cheaper than that offered by Northern California's dominant utility, Pacific Gas and Electric.
Affymetrix, Agilent Technologies, Applied Materials, Arista Networks, Atheros, Chegg, Coherent, Extreme Networks, File - Maker, Hortonworks, Intel, Intevac, Marvell, Mc - Afee, Move inc, National Semiconductor, Nvidia, Omni - Vision Technologies, Palo Alto Networks, PMC-Sierra, Rovi, Synaptics, Marvell Technology Group, Ooyala and Trident Microsystems are among the companies headquartered in Santa Clara.
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Santa Clara has two primary train stations: the Santa Clara Great America Station and the Santa Clara Station.
Santa Clara is positioned adjoining to Mineta San Jose International Airport, in fact a small portion of the airport is in Santa Clara.
Most enhance buses in the town/city are directed by Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority.
There is a light rail fitness in Santa Clara and the rest of the county which is also directed by Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority(VTA).
Central Park Library in Santa Clara Interior view of the Santa Clara City Library Another interior view of the Santa Clara City Library Santa Clara Unified School District serves Santa Clara and small portions of Sunnyvale and North San Jose.
Many of the schools are titled for former farmers, ranchers, and other notable Santa Clara inhabitants such as Bowers and Bracher elementary schools, Buchser Middle School, Wilcox High School, and Santa Clara High School.
Jesuit college Santa Clara University, junior college Mission College, and Golden State Baptist College are among the city's college studies facilities.
The town/city is also home to the Santa Clara City Library. The Santa Clara Broncos are the Division I NCAA athletic programs of Santa Clara University.
Santa Clara sponsors 19 different teams, most of which compete in the West Coast Conference.
The red and white of the Santa Clara Broncos is featured on the flag of the city, as is the Mission which lies at the heart of the campus.
Santa Clara has long benefited from support from the small-town community, and the Broncos have accomplished a bevy of intercollegiate success, prominently in Men's Basketball, Baseball, and both Men's and Women's soccer.
Santa Clara's Leavey Center, Buck Shaw Stadium, and Stephen Schott Stadium are all noted as some of the finest facilities of their size on the West Coast. Santa Clara University and its athletic programs play heavily into the culture and history of Santa Clara.
The 49ers were established by Tony Morabito, a Santa Clara University alumnus who chose the red and white of his alma mater for the football team.
As a result, the return of the 49ers to Santa Clara is something of a homecoming.
The San Jose Earthquakes of Major League Soccer no longer play their home games at Buck Shaw Stadium, positioned at Santa Clara University.
Haines International Swim Center is home and host to various local, regional, and global competing swimming matches as well as the Santa Clara Aquamaids synchronized swimming team.
The Santa Clara Vanguard, a competing marching music organization, has been headquartered in Santa Clara since its inception.
Santa Clara is also home to California's Great America, an amusement park presently directed by Cedar Fair, L.P..
Nearby is the Santa Clara Convention Center, one of Silicon Valley's biggest event and meeting venues.
Santa Clara also offers a several exhibitions such as the Intel Museum, Triton Museum of Art, and the Harris Lass historical home.
The San Francisco 49ers NFL football team has its command posts and practice facilities in Santa Clara.
On Wednesday, November 8, 2006, the 49ers announced their intention to move the team to Santa Clara in time for the fall 2014 season, after negotiations floundered with the town/city of San Francisco to build a new stadium. In 2011, Santa Clara voters allowed a plan to build a 68,500-seat stadium for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League.
As of May 2015, Santa Clara has three sister cities: Santa Clara County, California Santa Clara Unified School District City of Santa Clara.
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Silicon Valley Power Dedicates Donald Von Raesfeld Power Plant on June 15, 2005, City of Santa Clara news release (2005) City of Santa Clara CAFR City of Santa Clara.
Video: 49ers' groundbreaking ceremony for Santa Clara stadium San Jose Mercury News.
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