Middlefield station
light rail station in Mountain View, California
Middlefield station is a light rail station operated by Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA), located in Mountain View, California. This station is served by the Orange Line of the VTA light rail system.
Middlefield station is surrounded by an industrial area which includes some transit-oriented development on Middlefield Road between Ellis Street and Logue Avenue. Nearby offices include the headquarters for Coupons.com, MobileIron, Synopsys and Symantec enterprise security.
The public source identifies “Middlefield station” as light rail station in Mountain View, California. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Middlefield, station and light.
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Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q14683352. Authority coordinates are 37.396, -122.052. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.
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This entry incorporates text from “Middlefield station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.