zip code 94040

zip code 94040 is for Mountain View a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. The city gets its name from the views of the Santa Cruz Mountains. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 70,708.

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It is one of the major cities that make up Silicon Valley, and thus, by necessity, it has many notable Silicon Valley companies either headquartered here or with a large presence. Google headquarters (the Googleplex), Red Hat, the Mozilla Foundation/Mozilla Corporation, AOL, Microsoft’s MSN/Hotmail/Xbox/MSNTV divisions, Intuit, Silicon Graphics, Spectra-Physics, and NASA Ames Research Center are just a few of the high tech institutions that are located in Mountain View. Other nearby companies with a large presence include Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, Lockheed Martin, and Loral Space Systems.

zip code 94040 Geography

Mountain View is located at 37°25′19″N, 122°5′4″W (37.42223, −122.08429)GR1.

Mountain View is located at the north end of Highway 85, where it meets Highway 101. The historic route El Camino Real also runs through Mountain View.

Mountain View is bounded to the northwest by Palo Alto, to the southwest by Los Altos, to the southeast by Sunnyvale, and to the northeast by the San Francisco Bay.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 31.7 km² (12.2 mi²). 31.2 km² (12.1 mi²) of it is land and 0.4 km² (0.2 mi²) of it (1.39%) is water.

zip code 94040 History

After the former rancho of Don Mariano Castro was split, the south eventually became the city of Sunnyvale, and the north became Mountain View. The town began as a stage stop on the route between San Francisco and San Jose (corresponding to El Camino Real), close to present-day Grant Road. With the coming of the railroad, the center of town eventually moved to its current location at Castro Street.

Much of Mountain View was agricultural through the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. Row crops and orchards were common during this era when there was open space between Palo Alto and Mountain View. In Bittersweet: memories of Old Mountain View, an oral history, residents of Japanese ancestry recall their family's strawberry fields adjoining Moffett Field. Orchards lined much of Grant Road and Miramonte. In the early 1900s, grapes were a common crop in the area of present-day Continental Circle. Phylloxera ended grape production in Mountain View in the early 1900s.

During the Cold War, the drone of Navy P-3 turboprop aircraft was a constant presence, Moffett Field being the home of squadrons of them and their almost constant touch-and-go training flights. The horns of railroad locomotives were also frequently heard.

The El Camino Hospital District, a government entity called a Special District under the California Government Code, came to life in the 1960s. The hospital facility at 2500 Grant Road has been in continual operation since.

Most people using the term Silicon Valley would include Mountain View in that region. An early Silicon Valley company was Fairchild Camera and Instrument Company, located along Whisman Road. Several of Intel's founders came from Fairchild. Local watering holes for workers included Chubby's Broiler (which once stood at Ellis and Fairchild near Hwy 101, but which moved in 1999 to near Tasman and Lawrence Expressway in Sunnyvale [1]) and Walker's Wagon Wheel on Middlefield Road near Whisman. Folklore was that semiconductor pioneers were collaborative and met at the Wagon Wheel to discuss problems they were having with production. Employees are more wealthy, competitive and proprietary today and tend to err on the side of protecting their company's intellectual property and trade secrets, usually having signed forms to do so as part of their employment

zip code 94040 Downtown

Mountain View has a pedestrian-friendly downtown along Castro Street that is six blocks long.
The 100 block is next to the Caltrain lines.
The police station is two blocks away.
Going South towards El Camino Real, there are four blocks of restaurants and shops. Restaurants even leave their chairs out on the sidewalk overnight.
Kapps Pizza displays many photographs of the downtown from 100 years ago.
In a one-block civic center are nestled City Hall, the Center for Performing Arts and the Mountain View Public library. Behind these buildings is Pioneer Park, which enjoys a quiet environment resulting from the Civic Center blocking out the noise on Castro Street.

zip code 94040 Notable features

Shoreline Park runs along the bay north of Highway 101. It includes Shoreline Amphitheatre as well as historic Rengstorff House.
Stevens Creek runs through Mountain View from the south. A lengthy paved pedestrian and bicycle path, the Stevens Creek Trail, runs alongside the creek for nearly its entire distance in Mountain View.
Moffett Field is a Federal Airfield near the bay; that is home to both NASA Ames Research Center and Onizuka Air Force Station (a United States Air Force base).
Castro Street is at the center of Mountain View’s downtown. It features a large number of restaurants, particularly of the Asian and Italian variety.
The Jehning Family Lock Museum is located on Castro Street.
The Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts is located at 500 Castro Street in Mountain View, adjacent to City Hall.
San Antonio Shopping Center is a popular shopping mall in Mountain View, California.
The Computer History Museum is located at 1401 North Shoreline Blvd in Mountain View, just north of Highway 101.
The historic Huff House, built by the first postmaster of Mountain View in 1929, is located on Diericx Drive.

zip code 94040 Mountain View

City Name: Mountain View
Post Office Name: Mountain View
County: Santa Clara
Area Code: 650
Timezone: PST
Latitude: +37.189396
Longitude: -121.705327