Editing Mountain View, California (section)

==Geography==
According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the city has a total area of {{convert|12.236|sqmi|sqkm|2}}, of which {{convert|11.958|sqmi|sqkm|2}} is land and {{convert|0.278|sqmi|sqkm|2}} (2.26%) is water.<ref name="CenPopGazetteer2023"/>

The city borders [[Palo Alto]] and the [[San Francisco Bay]] to the north, [[Los Altos, California|Los Altos]] to the south, and [[Moffett Federal Airfield]] and [[Sunnyvale, California|Sunnyvale]] to the east.

Mountain View is located in the south-eastern and south-western section of the San Francisco Peninsula, at the north end of [[California State Route 85|State Route 85]], where it meets [[U.S. Route 101 in California|U.S. Route 101]]. [[California State Route 82|State Route 82]] follows the route of the historic [[El Camino Real (California)|El Camino Real]] through Mountain View. The city is bounded to the north by the [[San Francisco Bay|Bay]], northeast by [[Palo Alto, California|Palo Alto]], to the south and southwest by [[Los Altos, California|Los Altos]], and to the east by [[Sunnyvale, California|Sunnyvale]] and [[Moffett Federal Airfield]].

The [[Santa Cruz Mountains]], the origin of the city's name, lie to the west. This range separates Mountain View from the Pacific Ocean and, together with the Diablo Range to the south-east, form the [[Santa Clara Valley]].

===Neighborhoods===
Most of Mountain View consists of residential neighborhoods. Business parks are located mostly in the North Shoreline neighborhood, north of Highway 101.

The Blossom Valley neighborhood comprises five smaller neighborhoods: Springer Meadows, Varsity Park, Blossom Valley Estates, Springer Trees, and Gest Ranch subdivision known as Miramonte Oaks which borders Los Altos. This would be one of the more exclusive areas, this development was built in 1963 to about 1965. The other neighborhood's [[Ranch-style house|ranch-style housing]] were built in the 1950s and 1960s on orchard land.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2010/01/13/blossom-valley|title=Blossom Valley|last=Tai|first=Crystal|date=2017|website=Palo Alto Online|language=en|access-date=January 23, 2020}}</ref>

The Cuernavaca neighborhood is located off Crestview Drive near the Sunnyvale border. This neighborhood used to be the location of a cherry orchard, and later a nine-hole golf course and swim club before it was turned into housing, which was completed in 1989.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://mv-voice.com/news/2015/12/16/cuernavaca-neighborhood|title=Cuernavaca neighborhood|last=Calloway-Appleton|first=TaLeiza|date=2015|website=Mountain View Voice|language=en|access-date=January 23, 2020}}</ref> Most of the housing in Cuernavaca is Spanish-style, with red tiled roofs.<ref name=":1" />

The [[Monta Loma, Mountain View|Monta Loma]] neighborhood is located between the bounds of San Antonio Road, Middlefield Road, Rengstorff Avenue and Central Expressway.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2009/01/26/monta-loma|title=Monta Loma|last=Schrenk|first=Kathy|website=PaloAltoOnline.com|date=January 26, 2009 |language=en|access-date=January 23, 2020}}</ref> Currently Monta Loma houses a collection of California-style [[mid-century modern]] houses by [[Joseph Eichler]], [[John Calder Mackay]], and Mardell Building Company.<ref name=":0" />

===Hazardous waste===
Due to its history as a center for semiconductor manufacturing, Mountain View has seven sites on the [[Environmental Protection Agency]]'s Final [[National Priorities List]] (NPL), a list of hazardous waste sites in the United States eligible for long-term remedial action financed under the federal [[Superfund]] program. The sites were formerly used by companies including [[Fairchild Semiconductor]], [[Intel]], [[Raytheon]], CTS Printex Inc., Spectra-Physics, Jasco Chemical, [[GTE]] and [[Teledyne]]. These seven sites make up a portion of the 22 NPL sites in Santa Clara County, which are included in the total of 94 sites in California.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.epa.gov/superfund/sites/query/queryhtm/nplfin.htm#CA |title=Final National Priorities List (NPL) Sites - by State |publisher=[[United States Environmental Protection Agency]] |access-date=March 25, 2011}}</ref>

===Climate===
Mountain View has a [[warm-summer Mediterranean climate]] ([[Köppen climate classification]] ''Csb'': dry-summer subtropical).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.weatherbase.com/weather/weather-summary.php3?s=90547&cityname=Mountain+View%2C+California%2C+United+States+of+America&units=|title=Mountain View, California Climate Summary|publisher=Weatherbase|access-date=July 8, 2015}}</ref> Summers are warm and dry, while winters are cool and wet. However, both summers and winters are somewhat moderated due to its relative proximity to the Pacific, although it has a lesser maritime influence than San Francisco further north on the peninsula.

{{Weather box|location = Moffett Federal Airfield, Mountain View, California
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|Jan record high F = 77
|Feb record high F = 84
|Mar record high F = 85
|Apr record high F = 98
|May record high F = 100
|Jun record high F = 107
|Jul record high F = 105
|Aug record high F = 101
|Sep record high F = 105
|Oct record high F = 100
|Nov record high F = 89
|Dec record high F = 75
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|Feb high F = 61.8
|Mar high F = 65.0
|Apr high F = 68.0
|May high F = 71.7
|Jun high F = 75.9
|Jul high F = 76.9
|Aug high F = 76.9
|Sep high F = 77.7
|Oct high F = 74.1
|Nov high F = 65.5
|Dec high F = 58.9
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|Jan mean F = 50.7
|Feb mean F = 53.1
|Mar mean F = 55.8
|Apr mean F = 58.4
|May mean F = 62.1
|Jun mean F = 65.8
|Jul mean F = 67.7
|Aug mean F = 68.0
|Sep mean F = 67.5
|Oct mean F = 63.6
|Nov mean F = 55.9
|Dec mean F = 50.5
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|Jan low F = 42.2
|Feb low F = 44.5
|Mar low F = 46.7
|Apr low F = 48.9
|May low F = 52.5
|Jun low F = 55.7
|Jul low F = 58.5
|Aug low F = 59.0
|Sep low F = 57.3
|Oct low F = 53.1
|Nov low F = 46.3
|Dec low F = 42.1
|year low F = 
|Jan record low F = 21
|Feb record low F = 20
|Mar record low F = 22
|Apr record low F = 31
|May record low F = 33
|Jun record low F = 40
|Jul record low F = 43
|Aug record low F = 44
|Sep record low F = 37
|Oct record low F = 34
|Nov record low F = 26
|Dec record low F = 20
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|Jan precipitation inch = 3.06
|Feb precipitation inch = 3.31
|Mar precipitation inch = 2.49
|Apr precipitation inch = 0.98
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|Jun precipitation inch = 0.09
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|Aug precipitation inch = 0.03
|Sep precipitation inch = 0.15
|Oct precipitation inch = 0.76
|Nov precipitation inch = 1.96
|Dec precipitation inch = 2.95
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|Mar precipitation days = 9.6
|Apr precipitation days = 5.2
|May precipitation days = 2.6
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|Jul precipitation days = 0.2
|Aug precipitation days = 0.2
|Sep precipitation days = 1.5
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|Dec precipitation days = 11.1
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|source 1 = <ref>{{cite web |url =https://weather.com/weather/monthly/l/USCA0746:1:US|title=Mountain View, California Monthly Weather|publisher=The Weather Channel |access-date = January 29, 2018}}</ref>
|source 2 = <ref>{{cite web |url =https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/services/data/v1?dataset=normals-monthly-1991-2020&startDate=0001-01-01&endDate=9996-12-31&stations=USW00023244&format=pdf|title=Summary of Monthly Normals 1991-2020|publisher=NOAA |access-date = June 29, 2021}}</ref>
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