Burlingame (California)
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| Foundation : | 1908 | ||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | California | ||
| County : | San Mateo County | ||
| Coordinates : | 37 ° 35 ′ N , 122 ° 22 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Pacific ( UTC − 8 / −7 ) | ||
| Residents : | 28,806 (as of 2010) | ||
| Population density : | 2,572 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 15.6 km 2 (about 6 mi 2 ) of which 11.2 km 2 (about 4 mi 2 ) are land |
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| Height : | 12 m | ||
| Postcodes : | 94010-94012 | ||
| Area code : | +1 650 | ||
| FIPS : | 06-09066 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 1659704 | ||
| Website : | www.burlingame.org | ||
| Mayor : | Donna Colson | ||
Burlingame is a city in San Mateo County in the US state of California with 28,806 inhabitants (as of 2010). The city is named after the US diplomat Anson Burlingame named and is often called City of Trees (Engl. City of Trees ) denotes due to the high number of trees within the city. Burlingame is known for a high quality of life with an accessible city center and an excellent public school system.
geography
Burlingame is about 20 km south of San Francisco . The urban area has a size of 15.6 km², of which 11.2 km² is land and 4.4 km² is water. The neighboring towns of Burlingame are San Mateo in the southeast, Hillsborough in the south and Millbrae in the northwest.
climate
There are warm and dry summers in the region around Burlingame, whereby the monthly average temperature does not rise above 22 ° C. Burlingame has a warm, summer-dry climate (Mediterranean climate)
history
Burlingame is on land previously owned by San Francisco-based merchant William Davis Merry Howard . Howard has planted and retired many eucalyptus trees on his land . Howard died in 1856, so the land was sold to businessman William Chapman Ralston . In 1868 Ralston named the country after his friend Anson Burlingame , who was US ambassador to China until a year earlier . After the 1906 San Francisco earthquake , hundreds of plots of land were sold to people looking to build new homes. The city was therefore founded in 1908.
City of Trees
Burlingame is known as the City of Trees (Engl. City of Trees ) because of the number of trees within the city (18,000 public trees). In 1908 the Burlingame Board of Trustees issued an order that "forbids cutting, injuring or destroying trees".
Economy and Infrastructure
economy
In the 1960s, various airlines and services opened their offices in Burlingame due to its proximity to San Francisco International Airport . Burlingame is today u. a. Headquarters of the airline Virgin America and location of LSG Sky Chefs and China Airlines .
Several technology companies have set up their offices in Burlingame. The reason for this is the location between the booming technology center Silicon Valley in the south and San Francisco in the north.
traffic
Burlingame is connected to four highways, Highway 101 , which runs along the San Jose Bay to San Francisco , the parallel California State Route 82 , also known as part of the El Camino Real , and California State Route 35 , which is Merges with Interstate 280 .
The Caltrain serves the city through its own station every day with several connections to the north (San Francisco) and south (San José). The Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) route runs through Burlingame but does not serve the city. The closest station, also the terminus of the BART route, is in Millbrae.
education
There are 19 pre-schools in Burlingame, plus a high school, a middle school and six elementary schools, which are publicly owned. There are three privately owned schools, with Mercy High School being the only Catholic all-girls high school.
There is also the Burlingame library, which was built in 1909 and has won awards for its architecture.
sons and daughters of the town
- Ben Eastman (1911–2002), sprinter and middle distance runner
- Earl Wilbur Sutherland (1915–1974), physiologist
- Catriona Fallon (* 1970), rower
- Hannah Hart (* 1986), web video producer
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Burlingame, California Köppen Climate Classification (Weatherbase). Retrieved April 14, 2017 (English).
- ^ City of Burlingame, California: History of Burlingame. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 6, 2017 ; accessed on April 14, 2017 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ "Urban Reforestation and Tree Protection", Burlingame Municipal Code. Retrieved April 14, 2017 (English).
- ^ Future of Virgin America's Burlingame Headquarters Remains up in the Air: Report. NBC Bay Area, October 4, 2016, accessed November 23, 2016 .
- ↑ Burlingame becoming new tech hub. The Mercury News, July 24, 2011, accessed April 14, 2017 .
