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Stanford, CA

Stanford
Census-designated place
Location in Santa Clara County and the state of California
Location in Santa Clara County and the state of California
Stanford is located in the US
Stanford
Stanford
Location in the United States
Coordinates: 37°25′21″N 122°9′55″W / 37.42250°N 122.16528°W / 37.42250; -122.16528Coordinates: 37°25′21″N 122°9′55″W / 37.42250°N 122.16528°W / 37.42250; -122.16528
Country  United States
State  California
County Santa Clara
Area
 • Total 2.776 sq mi (7.190 km2)
 • Land 2.731 sq mi (7.072 km2)
 • Water 0.045 sq mi (0.118 km2)  1.64%
Elevation 95 ft (29 m)
Population (2010)
 • Total 13,809
 • Density 5,000/sq mi (1,900/km2)
Time zone Pacific (UTC-8)
 • Summer (DST) PDT (UTC-7)
ZIP codes 94305, 94309
Area code 650
FIPS code 06-73906
GNIS feature IDs 1867061, 2409994

Stanford is a census-designated place (CDP) in Santa Clara County, California, United States and is the home of Stanford University. The population was 13,809 at the 2010 census, with a daily population of 35,000.

Stanford is an unincorporated area of Santa Clara County and is adjacent to the city of Palo Alto. Stanford, California is a valid postal address, and has its own post office and ZIP codes: 94305 (campus buildings) and 94309 (post-office boxes). A popular landmark is the Dish.

Most of the Stanford University campus and other core University owned land is situated within the census-designated place of Stanford though the Stanford University Medical Center, the Stanford Shopping Center, and the Stanford Research Park are officially part of the city of Palo Alto. Its resident population consists of the inhabitants of on-campus housing, including graduate student residences and single-family homes and condominium owned by their faculty inhabitants but located on leased Stanford land. A residential neighborhood adjacent to the Stanford campus, College Terrace, featuring streets named after universities and colleges, including Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard and Princeton, is neither part of the Stanford CDP nor owned by the University but is part of Palo Alto.


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