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Stanford

Stanford is a census-designated place (CDP) in the northwestern corner of Santa Clara County, California, United States.

Stanford
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The place

Stanford is a census-designated place (CDP) in the northwestern corner of Santa Clara County, California, United States. It is the home of Stanford University, after which it was named. The CDP's population was 21,150 at the 2020 census. Stanford is adjacent to the city of Palo Alto, which borders it to the east, but the CDP itself remains unincorporated.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Stanford

Airports
Mineta San Jose (SJC), 22 km · San Francisco (SFO), 29 km · Oakland San Francisco Bay (OAK), 33 km
  • Sacramento → Stanford
    142 km · quickest by road, 3h 8m · $15–21
  • Fresno → Stanford
    225 km · quickest by road, 4h 21m · $22–30
  • Reno → Stanford
    311 km · quickest by road, 6h 17m · $32–44
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No local-transport research exists yet for Stanford

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Stanford. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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Next door to Stanford

Stanford is 26 km from San Jose, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.