Local Area Information
[Art Museums][Business][Community Resources][Education][Gateways][Government][Health][History]
[Media][Miscelleneous Local Area Information][Recreation and Entertainment][Transportation][Weather]
- Art Museums
- Asian Art Museum
- Berkeley Art Museum / Pacific Film Archive
- de Saisset Museum
- Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
- Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts
- Oakland Museum
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
- San Jose Museum of Art
- Triton Museum of Art
- Business
- Bay Area First -- Information about the San Francisco Bay Area designed to entice businesses to locate there.
- California Business Search -- Provided by the Secretary of State's office, this site searches corporate records and limited partnership/limited liability company records for the state of California.
- Doing Business - Santa Clara County -- Information for starting a business in Santa Clara County.
- Silicon Valley Companies Database -- Database of the 150 largest publically traded companies in Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, southern San Mateo, and southern Alameda counties; based on fiscal year sales reported each April by the San Jose Mercury News. In addition to financial and stock information, you can find information on the corporate culture and benefits.
- Youth@Work -- Covers Santa Clara and San Mateo counties.
- Community Resources
- Community Information Program -- From the Peninsula Library System. It contains information about Bay Area organizations in addition to San Mateo County.
- Hands On Bay Area -- Volunteer activities.
- HelpSCC: Information and Referral Database for Santa Clara County
- Humane Society of Santa Clara County
- LawHelpCalifornia -- Information to help people in California with low and moderate incomes find legal resources.
- Legal Aid Society of Santa Clara County
- Phoenix Data Center -- An index of free and low income services offered in Santa Clara County.
- San Francisco Bay Area Volunteer Information Center -- Provides information about volunteer opportunities.
- Santa Clara City Information Network Database -- Community information on local clubs, tourist attractions, historical resources, non-profit organizations, schools, etc.
- TaxExemptWorld -- Tax exempt and non-profit organizations located in Santa Clara County.
- United Way Silicon Valley
- VolunteerMatch - San Jose
- Your Public Law Library
- Education
- Academic Performance Index -- Rankings list for most of the public schools in California.
- Bay Area Private Schools
- GreatSchools -- Comprehensive guide to California K-12 public schools.
- Santa Clara County Office of Education
- Santa Clara County School District Locator -- Search by street address or parcel number to determine school district in Santa Clara County.
- STAR Test Results -- Access to the California Department of Education's Standardized Testing And Reporting data server.
- Gateways
- Silicon Valley Gateway
- Yahool! San Francisco Bay Area
- Yahoo! Santa Clara County
- Government
- ABAG: Association of Bay Area Governments
- American Law Sources Online - California
- California City and County Sales and Use Tax Rates
- California Government
- City of Campbell
- City of Campbell Municipal Code
- City of Cupertino
- City of Cupertino Municipal Code
- City of Gilroy
- City of Gilroy Code
- City of Los Altos
- City of Los Altos Municipal Code
- City of Milpitas
- City of Milpitas Municipal Code
- City of Monte Sereno
- City of Monte Sereno Municipal Code
- City of Morgan Hill
- City of Morgan Hill Municipal Code
- City of Mountain View
- City of Mountain View Code
- City of Palo Alto
- City of Palo Alto Municipal Code
- City of San Jose
- City of San Jose Code of Ordinances
- City of Santa Clara
- City of Santa Clara Municipal Code
- City of Saratoga
- City of Saratoga Code
- City of Sunnyvale
- City of Sunnyvale Municipal Code
- Santa Clara County
- Santa Clara County Ordinance Code
- Santa Clara County Polling Places -- Find out where to vote.
- Town of Los Altos Hills
- Town of Los Altos Hills Municipal Code
- Town of Los Gatos
- Town of Los Gatos Code of Ordinances
- Your Elected Officials -- Enter your zip code and find out who represents you.
- Health
- Bay Area Air Quality Forcast -- Updated daily, except those weekends when air quality is predicted to remain healthful.
- Community Health Library of Los Gatos
- El Camino Hospital's Health Library and Resource Center
- Find a Dentist -- Provided by the Santa Clara County Dental Society.
- Health Library at Stanford
- Phoenix Data Center Healthcare -- Fee and low income services offered throughout Santa Clara County and neighboring communities.
- Planetree Health Library
- Santa Clara County Hospitals
- Community Hospital of Los Gatos
- El Camino Hospital
- Good Samaritan Hospital
- Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Medical Center
- Kaiser Permanente Santa Teresa Medical Center
- Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
- O'Connor Hospital
- Regional Medical Center of San Jose
- Saint Louise Regional Hospital
- Santa Clara Valley Medical Center
- Stanford Hospital and Clinics
- VA Palo Alto Health Care System
- Santa Clara County Medical Society - Physician Locator
- Santa Clara County Public Health Department
- Santa Clara Valley Medical Center Medical Library
- History
- Bancroft Library - University of California, Berkeley
- California History Center
- California History Portal
- California Room - San Jose Public Library
- ClaraVision -- University of Santa Clara archives' database of selected images
- Filoli Center
- Historic Buildings of the Santa Clara Valley, California
- Historic Topological Maps of California -- Historical maps of the San Francisco Bay
area from 1895 to the present.
- History San Jose
- Monterey County Historical Society - Local History
- Mountain View Public Library - Obituary Database
- Museum of the City of San Francisco
- Online Archive of California
- San Francisco Genealogy
- San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection
- San Francisco History
- San Jose State Special Collections
- Santa Clara City Library - Local History
- Santa Clara County, California GenWeb Project -- A collection of links to Santa Clara County genealogy.
- Santa Clara County Historical and Genealogical Society
- Santa Cruz County Local History
- Silicon Genesis - an Oral History of Semiconductor Technology
- SiliconValleyHistory Online
- Sourisseau Academy for State and Local History
- Media
- MetroActive -- Indexes some of the small papers from the Bay area.
- San Francisco Chronicle
- San Jose Mercury News
- SF Weekly
- Miscelleneous Local Area Information
- ABAG Earthquake Maps and Information
- Access USGS - San Francisco Bay and Delta -- Information and digital maps.
- Bay Area Census
- California Death Records -- From 1940 thru 1997.
- California Federation of Certified Farmers' Markets
- California Geological Survey Regulatory Hazard Zones
- Center for the Development of Recycling - Santa Clara County
- Department of Conservation - Maps
- Electronic Product Management Directory -- California facilities that collect specific types of electronic equipment for reuse or recycling.
- Green Gate: NRDC's Environmental Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area
- Index to Seismic Hazard Zone Maps
- Master Gardeners of Santa Clara County
- Recent California Seismic Events
- San Francisco Bay Area Progressive Directory
- Santa Clara County Extension Office
- Santa Clara County Food Facility Inspections
- Santa Clara County Property Assessment Records
- Santa Clara County Property Taxes
- Santa Clara County Recorders Office - Official Documents
- Silicon Valley Index -- Includes economic and quality of life indicators.
- Vital Records -- Information on ordering certified copies of California vital records.
- Recreation and Entertainment
- Artsopolis - Silicon Valley's Ultimate Guide to Arts and Culture
- Bay Area Hiker -- San Francisco Bay Area hiking guide.
- Bay Nature Community -- San Francisco Bay Area links relating to nature, ecology, and conservation.
- BayArea.com - Entertainment -- From the San Jose Mercury News, an entertainment guide to local music, movies, stage, dining and community calendar.
- Bonfonte Gardens
- California State Parks
- California Hiking - a Virtual Presentation
- California Tourism - San Francisco Bay Area -- Links to major Bay Area tourist attractions provided by the California Division of Tourism.
- Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose
- Computer History Museum
- De Anza Planetarium
- Happy Hollow Park and Zoo
- Intel Museum
- Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District
- Monterey Bay Aquarium
- Museum of American Heritage -- Historic technologies of the 19th & 20th centuries.
- Oakland Zoo
- Paramount's Great America
- Raging Waters
- Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum
- San Francisco Performing Arts Library and Museum
- San Francisco Zoo
- Santa Clara County Parks
- Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk
- Six Flags Marine World
- Symphony Silicon Valley
- The Tech Museum of Innovation
- Winchester Mystery House
- Transportation
- California Department of Motor Vehicles
- Caltrain
- Mineta San Jose International Airport
- Oakland International Airport
- Road Conditions - California Department of Transportation
- San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART)
- San Francisco International Airport
- Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority
- Weather
- California Flood Information
- National Weather Service San Francisco Bay Area/Monterey
- San Jose Climate Page -- Weather archives.
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