Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.
—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
121historic places
—earliest paper
1850formed
1,936,259pop. 2020
15cemeteries
—CW battlefields
At a glance
Summary
The National Register of Historic Places includes 121 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1966; 7 are also National Historic Landmarks. Most listings are in or near San Jose, Palo Alto, Gilroy.
Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.
Santa Clara County population from 1860 to 2020 (Census historical series).
1860
1880
1900
1920
1940
1950
1960
1980
2000
2020
11,912
35,039
60,216
100,676
174,949
290,547
642,315
1,295,071
1,682,585
1,936,259
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.
Cemeteries & historical places
USGS GNIS
15 cemeteries and 12 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.
Cemeteries — 15 of 15 listed
Name
Lat
Lon
Alta Mesa Cemetery
37.39827
-122.12857
Calvary Cemetery
37.36389
-121.83806
Gates of Heaven Cemetery
37.32707
-122.08083
Hacienda Cemetery and Memorial Park
37.17717
-121.81967
Hidalgo Cemetery (historical)
37.17077
-121.83522
Independent Order of Oddfellows Cemetery
37.01245
-121.59078
Los Gatos Cemetery
37.24439
-121.94162
Madronia Cemetery
37.25256
-122.03605
Mission City Memorial Park
37.33504
-121.95218
Mount Hope Memorial Park
37.11966
-121.65296
Oak Hill Memorial Park
37.29883
-121.86023
Old Mexican Cemetery (historical)
37.17355
-121.83966
Saint Johns Catholic Cemetery
37.43464
-121.86734
Saint Marys Cemetery
37.01245
-121.58828
Santa Clara Catholic Cemetery
37.33995
-121.94875
Historical populated places — 12 of 12
Name
Lat
Lon
Betabel
36.89745
-121.56328
Chinatown
37.33383
-121.89023
Greystone
37.22133
-121.8469
Guadalupe
37.21161
-121.90662
Heinlenville
37.35161
-121.89496
Lexington
37.19633
-121.98829
Madrone Soda Springs
37.16578
-121.51327
Nema
36.96106
-121.55105
Plantel
36.96606
-121.53188
Pomar
37.24105
-121.77773
Sawyers Crossing
36.95717
-121.52161
Tennant
37.11495
-121.63494
Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.
Historical markers
HMdb link
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