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Fact Sheet: Community Profile
Historic Origin
FOUNDED: November 29, 1777 (as Pueblo de San Jose, California's first civilian settlement)
INCORPORATED: March 27th, 1850 (as City of San Jose)
TERRITORY: Incorporated area = 178.2 square miles
Downtown San Jose, Circa 1950
Downtown San Jose, 2000
GEOGRAPHIC DATA
COORDINATES:
Longitude: -121.89 Latitude: 37.33
(at Cesar Chavez Plaza, Downtown)
ELEVATION:
Minimum: Sea level (Alviso) Maximum: 4,372' (Copernicus Peak, near Lick Observatory at Mt. Hamilton)
Last Modified Date: 5/6/2008
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