Talk:Stanford, California

University

There is a Stanford University in Palo ALto, CA. There is no "Stanford, CA" according to the offical California website at http://www.ca.gov.

According to http://www.usps.gov, there is a zip code for Stanford, CA. But this simply refers to Stanford University, not a town. When my ex-roommate went to Stanford University 20 years ago, letters sent to Stanford CA were always mis-directed to Stamford CT (the n and A are assume to be typographical errors). The "Stanford, CA" address available today may be just an attempt to save the countless letters sent to the non-existing town.

Students of Stanford Univerity may passionately call their campus as City of Stanford, but it is not a real city or town according to California government, at least legally it is not.

The census data may be referring to a census block within the city of Palo Alto. But creating a town out of thin air is questionable. I am really curious if anyone can identify the mayor or the townhall of this alledged city/town. Kowloonese 11:00, 31 August 2003 (UTC)

Wow, calm down. Stanford, California is a census-designated place. It is Stanford University, and it's in unincorporated Santa Clara County. Palo Alto is next to the unincorporated area of Stanford but does not include it. OCNative 03:06, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

Actually the main Stanford campus exists in several governmental jurisdictions, and Stanford does not exist as a separate municipality in California. As stated in facts.stanford.edu/about/lands, 4017 acres of Stanford are in an unincorporated region of Santa Clara County, 2701 acres are in an unincorporated region of San Mateo County, 1161 acres are in Palo Alto, 114 acres are in Woodside, 111 acres are in Menlo Park, and 76 acres in Portola Valley. There is no separate municipality - complete with its own mayor and town or city council - named Stanford, CA. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:B8B2:1780:896C:A744:956C:C86B (talk) 19:13, 1 July 2015 (UTC)

There was some graffiti on the page. Deleted it. --MasterCKO 06:34, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

The question that arises from all this is which is the correct bibliographic citation for books published by Stanford University Press: (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2006) or (Paolo Alto, Calif.: Stanford University Press)? The first (usually with CA instead of Calif.) is more common, but seems odd considering SUP even lists its address as Paolo Alto, CA. --Myke Cuthbert 02:45, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

According to this SUP is located on Page Mill Road, which is about a block away from Stanford. HOWEVER, they also have an office on the Stanford campus in the Storke Publications Building, so I guess you could split the difference. jengod 03:45, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

I suppose it begs the question of whether MLA or Chicago Manual of Style, et al, even have a rigorous definition of the "correct" way to include a place name along with a publisher's name. I'm no expert, but I presume the original reason for including a form such as "Chicago, Acme Press" was so that interested parties who had never heard of Acme Press might have a way to start finding their mailing address. In today's world, and with a name that includes "Stanford University", I doubt anybody would have trouble getting in touch with SUP regardless of what place name was in there... but your question remains, and I have no advice, and I can even complicate matters further by noting that SUP moved their headquarters to Redwood City from Page Mill Road, (which is undoubtedly in the city limits of Palo Alto and not within the CDP or on "the campus").Petershank (talk) 01:21, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

Education section

Well obviously the university but are Escondido and Lucille Nixon schools (part of the Palo Alto School District) in the CDP as well as being on Stanford land (Gunn and Palo Alto High Schools are on Stanford land but I think within the Palo Alto city limits). --Erp (talk) 03:17, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

I found http://tigerweb.geo.census.gov/tigerweb/ on the Census Bureau web site, and after some tinkering I was able to view the authoritative boundary lines of the CDP. Yes, both of those elementary schools are within the boundary of the CDP. No, neither Gunn nor Palo Alto High are within the CDP, although it's clear the university owns land outside the CDP. Must keep in mind that the entity created by the Census Bureau is not meant to describe the university's land holdings; it's meant to track the collection of people and households within the "thing" locals know as Stanford.Petershank (talk) 01:21, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

I suspect the rule is that all of the CDP is Stanford University owned but a large chunk of the core Stanford land is not in the CDP (Shopping Center, Medical Center, Research Park). I do wonder if Stanford still owns the land under Junipero Serra and 280. --Erp (talk) 01:14, 13 September 2015 (UTC)

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