San Jose is located in Santa Clara County, home to Google, Yahoo!, eBay, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Cisco Systems and other prominent companies.  San Jose is also known as the Capital of Silicon Valley. 

For more information about San Jose, you can visit the website for the City of San Jose.  Here is a short list of key information about San Jose and its history.

Founded:   

San Jose was California’s first civilian settlement.  It was founded in 1777.

County:      

San Jose is located in Santa Clara County.  Santa Clara County contains approximately one-fourth of the population of the San Francisco Bay Area.  The other cities of Santa Clara County include Campbell, Cupertino, Gilroy, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Los Gatos, Milpitas, Monte Sereno, Morgan Hill, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Santa Clara, Saratoga and Sunnyvale.  San Jose is the largest city in Santa Clara County. 

Population: 

Approximately 945,000.  San Jose is the third largest city in California, following Los Angeles and San Diego.  It is the largest city in northern California.  It is also the 10th largest city in the United States. 

Climate:     

Temperatures vary from an average of 50 degrees Fahrenheit in January to an average of 70 degrees Fahrenheit in July.  San Jose has roughly 300 sunny days per year, and it has a mean average rain fall of 14.4 inches. 

Universities:

Three major universities are located in Santa Clara County.  These universities are San Jose State University (with a student body of approximately 30,000), Santa Clara University (a private, Catholic Institution founded in 1871 by the Society of Jesus as “Santa Clara College”), and Stanford University. 

Industries:  

San Jose is dominated by technology. Computer software and hardware manufacturing, wholesale and services in particular comprise a significant portion of the city’s industrial base.