City of Palo Alto

Palo Alto, California
Charter city
City of Palo Alto
Downtown Palo Alto in 2005
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Location in Santa Clara County and the U.S. state of California
Palo Alto, California Location in the United States
Coordinates: 37°25′45″N 122°8′17″W / 37.42917°N 122.13806°W / 37.42917; -122.13806Coordinates: 37°25′45″N 122°8′17″W / 37.42917°N 122.13806°W / 37.42917; -122.13806
Country	United States
State	California
County	Santa Clara
Incorporated	April 23, 1894
Named for	El Palo Alto
Government
• Type	Council-Manager
• Body	City council members: Mayor Patrick Burt Vice Mayor Gregory Scharff Marc Berman Tom DuBois Eric Filseth Karen Holman Liz Kniss Greg Schmid Cory Wolbach
Area
• Total	25.77 sq mi (66.75 km2)
• Land	23.86 sq mi (61.81 km2)
• Water	1.91 sq mi (4.94 km2)  7.38%
Elevation	30 ft (9 m)
Population (2010)
• Total	64,403
• Estimate (2016)	67,024
• Density	2,808.46/sq mi (1,084.35/km2)
Time zone	Pacific (UTC−8)
• Summer (DST)	PDT (UTC−7)
ZIP codes	94301, 94303, 94304, 94306
Area code	650
FIPS code	06-55282
GNIS feature IDs	277572, 2411362
Website	www.cityofpaloalto.org

April 23, 1894

Palo Alto (/ˌpæloʊ ˈæltoʊ/ PAL-oh AL-toh; Spanish: [ˈpalo ˈalto]; from palo, literally "stick", colloquially "tree", and alto "tall"; meaning: "tall tree") is a charter city located in the northwest corner of Santa Clara County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area of the United States.

Palo Alto was established by Leland Stanford Sr. when he founded Stanford University, following the death of his son, Leland Stanford Jr. The city includes portions of Stanford University and is headquarters to a number of high-technology companies, including Hewlett-Packard (HP), Space Systems/Loral, VMware, Tesla Motors, Ford Research and Innovation Center, PARC, IDEO, Skype, Palantir Technologies, and Houzz. It has also served as an incubator to several other high-technology companies such as Google,Facebook, Logitech,Intuit, Pinterest, and PayPal.