Sunnyvale (California)

Sunnyvale () is a city of the Comté of Santa Clara, in California (the United States). It represents in surface the second most important city of the county, and the fifth of the urban Région of San Francisco. According to an estimate of the Office of the census of the United States, the city counted 128 549 inhabitants in 2003.

Integral part of Silicon Valley, Sunnyvale accommodates the seats of several companies of high technologies, in particular Juniper Networks, Palm, Inc., AMD, Network Appliance, Spansion, Yahoo! and Ariba, Inc.. Honeywell, Northrop Grumman Systems Mission (located at Hendy Iron Works Museum), Lockheed and Spirent Communications also have offices with Sunnyvale. The city accommodates also the Onizuka Air Force Station (called the the blue cubic ), the only active military base of the urban Région of San Francisco. The base, named in the honor of the Astronaut Ellison Onizuka of the Space shuttle Challenger, is the principal control center of artificial satellite of the Armed forces of the United States.

Sunnyvale is one of the rare American cities where all the members of the department of civil security are trained at the same time as a Pompier and police officer, and can all intervene in the two types of urgencies.

Geography

The coordinates of Sunnyvale are (37.368767, -122.037055).

According to the Office of the census of the United States, the city has an total surface area of 58,6 km ², including 1,8 km ² of watery surface.

The city is bordered in north by the Baie of San Francisco, by the town of Mountain View with the west, Santa Clara in the east and Cupertino in the south. It extends along the historical road El Camino Real and from U.S. Road 101.

History

When the Spanish arrive in the Années 1770 in the Vallée of Santa Clara, the place is already inhabited by the Amerindian S Ohlone. In 1777, the Mission of Santa Clara is built by of Ohlones converted with the Christianisme.

In 1842, Estrada and Inez Castro are seen granted the grounds indicated like Rancho Pastoria of mow Borregas . Certain parts of this ground will become later the towns of Mountain View and Sunnyvale. Two years later, another granting of grounds is granted to Lupe Yñigo, one of the rare Amerindians to be profited from this type of concession. Its ground will be initially baptized Rancho Posolmi , in the honor of the Posolmi village of Ohlones which occupied the place formerly, before being indicated thereafter like Rancho Ynigo .

In 1844, Martin Jr. and Mary Murphy leave the Missouri and follow by coach the Piste of California to cross the Sierra Nevada. In 1850, Martin Murphy Jr. buy part of Rancho Pastoria of mow Borregas for 12 500 dollars. It establishes a farm there where it cultivates the Blé and the site of Bay View . He is the owner of the first house with framework of the Comté of Santa Clara, delivered New England. Its grounds are divided among its heirs with his death into 1884.

In 1860, the railway company The San Francisco and San Jose Railroad builds Murphy Station and is authorized to build a railroad on Bay View. Lawrence Station is thereafter founded at the southern end of Bay View.

In the Years 1870, the culture of the Blé in the county of Santa Clara is hardly any more competitive because of the tax laws of the county, the imports and the impoverishment of the soil. Modest orchards replace the cereal large farms. In 1871, James and Eloise Dawson found the first Conserverie of fruits of the county. The fruit-bearing culture and the preserve setting quickly become an important industry in the county. The invention of the cooled railway goods wagon still improves the viability of a fruit-bearing economy. The orchards become if prévalents that in 1866, the Council commercial of San Jose baptizes the county of Santa Clara The Garden off the World (“the Garden of the World”).

In the Years 1880, the Chinese account for 48% of the rural workers of the county of Santa Clara. This percentage decreases gradually after the vote of the Chinese Exclusion Act . During the decade which follows, a multitude of immigrants arrive of Italy, of the the Azores, the Portugal and the Japan to work in the orchards.

In 1897, Walter Everett Crossman buys 809,000 m ² of grounds which it resells by pieces. It makes the promotion of the place by baptizing it Beautiful Murphy . In the Years 1900, it describes off the locality like the City Destiny .

Always in 1897, the Encina school opens and becomes the only school of Murphy. Previously, the children of the city were to go until Mountain View for their schooling.

In 1901, the resident off Murphy were informed they could not uses the names Encinal gold Murphy for to their post office. They decided to uses the name Sunnyvale for the name off to their town.

Continuous Sunnyvale to grow and the production of dry fruits starts in 1904. In 1906, the Ferronnerie Joshua Hendy Ironworks moves of San Francisco for Sunnyvale after the building of the establishment had been destroyed by the fire caused by the earthquake of 1906. The ironwork is then the first not-agricultural industry of the locality. The same year, Libby, McNeill & Libby, a company of conditioning of the meats of Chicago, decides to open its first factory of fruit conditioning with Sunnyvale. Today, a Tower water paints to resemble the label of first preserves of Libby marks the old site of the establishment.

In 1912, the residents of Sunnyvale vote to incorporate the locality like municipality.

Fremont High School opens its doors for the first time in 1925. The place served basic soldier before, and it is there that the planes taking off or atterissant in Moffet Field made a fuelling there. The school kept some of the old buildings to the military style, in particular a Quonset hut which accommodates from now on the Lutte gréco-Roman.

In 1930, the American Congrès decides to place the base of Dirigeable S of the American West coast at Sunnyvale. This air and sea base will be renamed thereafter Moffett Federal Airfield.

In 1939, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA, the precursor of NASA) begins its research with the laboratory Ames.

During the Second world war, the saving in conflict sees emerging a pole of state-of-the-art technologies in the county of Santa Clara, up to now dominated by the Horticulture. Joshua Hendy Ironworks built there of the maritime engines with vapor, the guns of ship and the launchers of missiles to contribute to the effort of war. The industry of defense develops, but a shortage of labor is quickly felt in the agricultural medium. Mexican immigrants are able then to provide for the request.

After the war, the majority of the fruit-bearing orchards are uprooted to make place at residential developments, factories and offices. In 1956, the manufacturer Aéronautique Lockheed moves its seat towards Sunnyvale. In 1969, the company of Semi-conducteur S AMD is founded in Sunnyvale, where it is always based.

In 2003, largest of the remaining orchards pertaining to C.J. Olson are destroyed and replaced by a shopping mall. The last exploitation of fruit-bearing arboriculture of Sunnyvale, beside Park Las Palmas, is intended to be replaced by residential and commercial constructions.

The demolition of Town Center Mall of Sunnyvale started in 2005. The shopping mall, built in the Years 1970, must be replaced by a mixed development, integral trade and residences, on the model of the district of Santana Row to San Jose, and intended to redefine the center town, whose historical axis is South Murphy Avenue, a short section between Evelyn and Washington. The project is however blocked since 2006, even if the two stores headlights of the shopping mall, Macy' S and Target, remain open.

Demography

According to an estimate of the Office of the census of the United States, Sunnyvale counted 128 549 inhabitants in 2003, is a reduction of 2,5% compared to the Recensement of 2000, which determined the number of inhabitants with 131 760. The city counted 52 539 hearths, 32 679 families and 53 753 residences. The Population density was of 2 318,7/km ².

The city was made up ethniquement of 53,7% of white, 2,22% of Afro-américain S, 0,46% the originating ones in Oceania, 7,19% people declaring other ethnic origins and 4,25% declaring mixed origin. 15,48% of the population were Hispanic or latino.

Among the 52 539 hearths, 27,6% had under their roof of the children of less than 18 years, 50,0% was married couples living together, 8,2% counted a woman without husband present and 37,8% were not families. 27,1% of all the hearths were in fact an individual, and 6,4% were composed of a person only 65 years or more. The average hearth counted 2,49 people and the average family 3,06 members.

20,4% of the population had less than 18 years, 7,7% had between 18 and 24 years, 41,3% between 25 and 44 years, 19,9% between 45 and 64 years, and 10,6% 65 or more. The median age was 34 years. Redwood City counted 100 women for 105,9 men, and 100 18 year old women or more 106,5 men.

The median income by hearth was of 74 000 US dollars, and median income by family of 81 634 $. The men had a median income of 65 165 $ against 43 051 $ for the women. The income per capita was of 36 524 $. Approximately 3,7% of the families and 5,4% of the population were under the Poverty line, including 5,5% of the inhabitants of less than 18 years and 5,2% of those 65 years old or more.

Transport

Sunnyvale is served by the networks of the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (in the form of Tramway S and drunk), like by the railway line Caltrain. The roads CA-85, U.S. Highway 101, CA-237 and the Interstate 280 cross the city. A section of the California State Route 82 crosses the downtown area, according to the historical road alignment El Camino Real. Sunnyvale was also seen off allotting by League American Bicyclists a bronze medal for its many alleys, fires and parking lots reserved to the cyclists.

Anecdotes

According to an old local legend, a phantom haunts the store of toys Toys " R" Custom of the city.
the actress Teri Hatcher was born and grew in Sunnyvale, where it went in Sunnyvale Middle School and Fremont High School.
the skater on Olympic ice Brian Boitano is originating in Sunnyvale.
Sunnyvale was classified like the 18^e the surest city of the United States in 2005 according to Morgan Quitno Awards.
the May 4th 1998, a Tornade of the type F2 struck Sunnyvale, causing extensive damage. It was a question not only of the one of the rare tornadoes ever to have struck the urban Région of San Francisco, but also of an anomaly in the sense that the phenomenon followed a anticyclonic rotation.
the first machine of the play of arcade Pong was installed in Sunnyvale, in the bar Andy Capes, now become a comedy club called Rooster T. Feathers.
In the film WarGames , the Protovision company has its seat with Sunnyvale, as well as the space division of NORAD.
Dr. Andrew Fire, the Nobel Prize 2006 of medicine, grew in Sunnyvale, and was raises in Fremont High School, Mango Junior High School (from now on Sunnyvale Middle School) and Hollenbeck Elementary School (from now on Challenger Private School).

Random links: