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Matadero Creek is a stream originating in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains in Santa Clara County, California, United States.The creek flows in a northeasterly direction for 8 miles (13 km) until it enters the Palo Alto Flood Basin, where it joins Adobe Creek in the Palo Alto Baylands at the north end of the Mayfield Slough, just before its culmination in southwest San Francisco Bay.
January 21, 1982 (233 W. Santa Clara St. San Jose: 17: Pedro de Lemos House: Pedro de Lemos House: January 10, 1980 (100–110 Waverley Oaks: Palo Alto: 18: Dohrmann Building
Black Mountain is a summit on Monte Bello Ridge in the Santa Cruz Mountains of west Santa Clara County, California, south of Los Altos and Los Altos Hills, and west of Cupertino; it is within the Palo Alto city limits though not near the developed part of the city. [2]
When Microsoft's Silicon Valley office moved to Sand Hill Road in 1988 it paid US$2.02 per square foot, less than the US$3 average for Palo Alto and Menlo Park. Robert Gaskins wrote, "There could not be a better location for accessibility coupled with privacy and natural beauty", and "appropriate for a top-tier company like Microsoft". [ 7 ]
The southern inland section, located south of Interstate 280, is hilly, rural, and lightly populated and is the site of Pearson–Arastradero Preserve and Foothills Park both part of the Palo Alto park system and also large parts of the Los Trancos and Monte Bello Open Space Preserves part of the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District.
Originally called Eton Park and was renamed for a former Palo Alto Postmaster in 1968. [4] Frederick W. Weisshaar Park, also on Dartmouth Street between College Avenue and South California Avenue. Originally called Hampton Park it was renamed in 1968 for an earlier owner of the College Terrace land.
Barron Creek drains about 3 square miles (7.8 km 2), arising at 350 feet (110 m) in Los Altos Hills, California. [8] It is the most modified creek in the Lower Peninsula Watershed, with 67% of its course classified as "hardened", meaning that most (but not all) of its course north of Foothill Expressway is in a concrete channel to its confluence with Adobe Creek.
Adobe Creek, historically San Antonio Creek, is a 14.2-mile-long (22.9 km) [5] northward-flowing stream originating on Black Mountain in the Santa Cruz Mountains.It courses through the cities of Los Altos Hills, Los Altos, and Palo Alto on its way to the Palo Alto Flood Basin and thence to southwestern San Francisco Bay in Santa Clara County, California, United States.