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Gilroy
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city in Santa Clara County, California, United States
Gilroy is a city located in Santa Clara County in California. It is known as the "Garlic Capital of the World" due to the region's significant garlic production and its annual Gilroy Garlic Festival.
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Gilroy
- Population
- 59520
- Area
- 41.84537
- Elevation
- 200
- Official website
- www.ci.gilroy.ca.us
- Image
- Old City Hall, Gilroy 2014 01.JPG
- Households
- 15677
- Dialing code
- 408
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- Commons category
- Gilroy, California
- nickname
- Garlic Capital of the World
- postal code
- 95021
- inception
- 1870-01-01
- native label
- Gilroy
- water as percent of area
- 0.0637
- P8168
- Lorca Deportiva CF
- water area
- 0.026658
- per capita income
- 38449
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Gilroy is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States, south of the San Francisco Bay Area. It had a population of 59,520 as of the 2020 census.
Gilroy's origins lie in the village of San Ysidro, which developed in the early 19th century from Rancho San Ysidro. This land had been granted to Californio ranchero Ygnacio Ortega in 1809. Following Ygnacio's death in 1833, his daughter Clara Ortega de Gilroy and son-in-law John Gilroy inherited the largest portion of the rancho, and began developing the settlement.