San Mateo (/ˌsæn məˈteɪ.oʊ/ SAN mə-TAY-oh; Spanish for "Saint Matthew") is a city in San Mateo County, California, in the high-tech enclave of Silicon Valley in the San Francisco Bay Area. With a population of 97,207 as of the 2010 census, it is one of the larger suburbs on the San Francisco Peninsula, located 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 2014 population was estimated to be 102,893. San Mateo was incorporated in 1894.
Population: 97,207
Latitude: 37° 33' 46.76" N
Longitude: -122° 19' 31.91" W
The Stanford Graduate School of Education (also known as Stanford GSE, or GSE) is one of the seven schools of Stanford University, and is one of the top education schools in the United States. It was founded in 1891 and offers master's and doctoral …
Stanford Shopping Center is an upscale open air shopping mall located on Route 82 (El Camino Real) at Sand Hill Road in Palo Alto, California. It is on the campus of Stanford University although the university only owns the land and not the actual b…
Stanford Hospital (now Stanford Health Care) is located at 300 Pasteur Drive, Stanford, California, 94305 and is part of the Stanford University Medical Center along with the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital and the Stanford School of Medicine. It…
The San Francisco Federal Building is an 18-story, 71.3 m (234 ft) skyscraper at 90 7th Street on the corner of Mission and 7th streets in the South of Market neighborhood of San Francisco, California. The building was designed by the Morphosis arch…
TechShop is a chain of member-based workshops that lets people of all skill levels come in and use industrial tools and equipment to build their own projects.
San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH) is the main public hospital in San Francisco, California, and the only Level I Trauma Center for the 1.5 million residents of San Francisco and northern San Mateo County. The hospital serves poor, elderly people…
It is composed of the USS Hornet (CV-12) aircraft carrier, exhibits from the NASA Apollo moon exploration missions, and several retired aircraft from the Second World War and the transonic and early supersonic jet propulsion period. A number of comp…
San Francisco 4th and King Street or 4th and King station (previously called 4th & Townsend) or Caltrain Depot is the north end of the Caltrain commuter rail line to the San Francisco Peninsula and Santa Clara Valley, and is a major area transit hub…
Menlo School, also referred to simply as Menlo, is an independent college preparatory school in Atherton, California, near the heart of Silicon Valley.
San Andreas Lake (Spanish: Laguna de San Andrés) is a reservoir adjacent to the San Francisco Peninsula cities of Millbrae and San Bruno in San Mateo County, California.
College of San Mateo (commonly referred to as CSM) is a community college in San Mateo, California.
KSFO is a talk radio station in San Francisco, California, USA, broadcasting on 560 kHz AM with content focusing on conservative talk. It operated under the ownership of the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) until the radio group was purchased by …
Devil's Slide is a coastal promontory in California, United States.
The Excelsior District is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California.
Tartine is a bakery in San Francisco, California, located in the Mission District, at 600 Guerrero Street (at 18th Street). Writing in the New York Times, food columnist Mark Bittman called it his favorite bakery in the U.S. In 2008 its owners, Elis…
Maples Pavilion is a 7,392-seat multi-purpose arena in Stanford, California built in 1969. Maples underwent a $30 million renovation in March 2004, which wrapped up in time for conference play in December of that year.
McCovey Cove is the unofficial name of a section of San Francisco Bay beyond the right field wall of AT&T Park, home of the San Francisco Giants, named after famed Giants first baseman Willie McCovey. The proper name for the cove is China Basin, whi…
The Dish is a radio telescope in the Stanford foothills. The 150-foot-diameter (46 m) dish was built in 1966 by the Stanford Research Institute (now SRI International).