Belmont, California

Belmont is a city in San Mateo County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. It sits on the San Francisco Peninsula roughly halfway between San Francisco and San Jose, on the northern edge of Silicon Valley. The land was originally part of Rancho de las Pulgas, and one of the main roads of the city, the Alameda de las Pulgas, takes its name from that grant. The city was incorporated in 1926 and had 28,335 residents at the 2020 census. Belmont is bordered by San Mateo to the north, the Peninsula Watershed managed by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission to the west, Redwood Shores to the east and San Carlos to the south. Its best known landmark is Ralston Hall, built by Bank of California founder William Chapman Ralston on what is now the campus of Notre Dame de Namur University. A structure surviving from the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition also stands on Belmont Avenue.