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 Council Economic Institute -- 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.
- Work2Future -- South Santa Clara County.
- Community Resources
- 2-1-1 Santa Clara County -- Non-emergency community, health and disaster information in Santa Clara County.
- California County Public Law Libraries
- Hands On Bay Area -- Volunteer activities.
- Humane Society of Silicon Valley
- 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.
- TaxExemptWorld -- Tax exempt and non-profit organizations located in Santa Clara County.
- United Way Silicon Valley
- VolunteerMatch - San Jose
- Education
- Academic Performance Index -- Rankings list for most of the public schools in California.
- California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) System
- 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
- 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 Cupertino
- City of Gilroy
- City of Los Altos
- City of Milpitas
- City of Monte Sereno
- City of Morgan Hill
- City of Mountain View
- City of Palo Alto
- City of San Jose
- City of Santa Clara
- City of Saratoga
- City of Sunnyvale
- Santa Clara County
- Santa Clara County Polling Places -- Find out where to vote. Available 40 days before the election.
- Town of Los Altos Hills
- Town of Los Gatos
- 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.
- El Camino Hospital's Health Library and Resource Center
- Find a Dentist -- Provided by the Santa Clara County Dental Society.
- Phoenix Data Center Healthcare -- Fee and low income services offered throughout Santa Clara County and neighboring communities.
- Planetree Health Library
- Santa Clara County Hospitals
- El Camino Hospital
- El Camino Hospital Los Gatos
- Good Samaritan Hospital
- Kaiser Permanente San Jose Medical Center
- Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara 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
- Santa Clara County Public Health Department
- Stanford Health 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 Topological Maps of California -- Historical maps of the San Francisco Bay
area from 1895 to the present.
- History San Jose
- Los Gatos Library Historical Collections
- Monterey County Historical Society - Local History
- Mountain View Public Library - Obituary Database
- Museum of the City of San Francisco
- Online Archive of California
- Palo Alto Historical Association Photograph Collection
- Palo Alto Local News and Obituaries
- 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
- Sunnyvale History
- Media
- Out & About Magazine
- San Francisco Chronicle
- San Jose Mercury News
- Santa Clara County Newspapers
- Miscelleneous Local Area Information
- ABAG Earthquake Maps and Information
- Access USGS - San Francisco Bay and Delta -- Information and digital maps.
- California Death Records -- From 1940 thru 1997.
- California Earthquake Information
- California Federation of Certified Farmers' Markets
- California Geological Survey Regulatory Hazard Zones
- California Geological Survey Tsunami Web Site
- Center for the Development of Recycling - Santa Clara County
- CGS Seismic Hazard Zonation Program (SHZP)
- Department of Conservation -
regulatory 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
- Master Gardeners of Santa Clara County
- 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 -- San Francisco Bay Area links relating to nature, ecology, and conservation.
- California Academy of Sciences
- California Hiking - a Virtual Presentation
- California State Parks
- California Tourism - San Francisco Bay Area -- Links to major Bay Area tourist attractions provided by the California Division of Tourism.
- California's Great America
- Chabot Space and Science Center
- Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose
- Computer History Museum
- Contemporary Jewish Museum
- Exploratorium
- Fujitsu Planetarium De Anza College
- Gilroy Gardens Family Theme Park
- Happy Hollow Park and Zoo
- Hiller Aviation Museum
- Intel Museum
- Lawrence Hall of Science
- Lick Observatory
- Lyric Theatre of San Jose
- Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District
- Monterey Bay Aquarium
- Museum of American Heritage -- Invention & Technology 1750 - 1950.
- Museum of Performance & Design
- Oakland Zoo
- Opera San Jose
- Raging Waters
- Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum
- San Francisco Opera
- San Francisco Symphony
- San Francisco Zoo
- San Jose Giants
- San Jose Sharks
- San Jose Symphonic Choir
- San Jose Wind Symphony
- Santa Clara County Parks
- Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk
- Six Flags Discovery Kingdom
- Symphony Silicon Valley
- The Tech Museum of Innovation
- Winchester Mystery House
- YSI - Youth Science Institute
- 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
- Department of Water Resources California Data Exchange Center
- National Weather Service San Francisco Bay Area/Monterey
- San Jose Climate Page -- Weather archives.
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