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	25.787 sq mi (66.787 km2)
• Land	23.884 sq mi (61.858 km2)
• Water	1.903 sq mi (4.929 km2)  7.38%
Elevation	30 ft (9 m)
Population (April 1, 2010)
• Total	64,403
• Estimate (2013)	66,642
• Density	2,500/sq mi (960/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

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. The city shares its borders with East Palo Alto, Mountain View, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Stanford, Portola Valley, and Menlo Park. It is named after a coast redwood tree called El Palo Alto.