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Mountain View was named for its views of the Santa Cruz Mountains, with storekeeper Jacob Shumway credited with choosing the name in 1854.

Mountain View grew up around a stagecoach stop formed in 1852 near Grant Road and El Camino Real on the route between San Francisco and San Jose, and it incorporated on November 7, 1902.

Mountain View had 82,376 residents at the 2020 census, spread across roughly 35,800 households.

Mountain View households are small, averaging just 2.33 people, and only about 39% of its homes are owner-occupied, making it a renter-majority city.

The median value of an owner-occupied home in Mountain View is about $1.93 million, among the highest of any city in the United States.

Mountain View is home to the Googleplex, the global headquarters of Google and its parent company Alphabet, as well as the headquarters of Intuit.

In 1956 William Shockley founded Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory in Mountain View, the first company to develop silicon semiconductor devices in Silicon Valley, which is why the city is often called the birthplace of Silicon Valley.

Mountain View hosts the NASA Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, where flight research began in 1939 and which remains one of NASA's major research centers.

The Computer History Museum, which opened on North Shoreline Boulevard in 2002, holds one of the world's largest and most complete collections on the history of computing.

Shoreline Park, a 700-acre bayside park with a golf course that opened in 1983, is Mountain View's largest park.