Talk:Stanford, California
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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)
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)
